China Scraps Presidential Term Limit: Implications for the World
China abolished the constitutional limit on the number of terms the president and vice-president can serve. The message is clear: Xi Jinping can remain China’s […]
South China Sea
Making Waves: Vietnam’s rising power in ASEAN
All eyes are on Vietnam. A country that exactly two decades ago had 51% of its population living under the World Bank’s poverty line, now […]
Deep Sea Mining: Diamond in the rough, or Pandora’s box?
Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary. All are names of explorers famous for reaching places considered unreachable. Peary reached the North Pole in […]
A Rocky Identity: Power struggle for the seas and our identities
In recent years, tensions between Asian countries over hotly contested waters, rocks and manmade islands have become impossible to ignore. For this issue, I had […]
Building Sandcastles in the South China Sea
From just two rocks jutting out of the South China Sea, the Fiery Cross Reef has, in the space of about a year, transformed into […]