by admin | May 14, 2018 | The Straits Times
Last week’s Malaysian election result is sending shock waves across the region, not least in China. The surprise outcome is now likely to see a partial reversal of Malaysia’s recent ardently pro-Chinese foreign policy. It also ought to act as a wake-up...
by admin | May 1, 2018 | Financial Times
It takes a couple of hundred pages before anything approaching a controversial idea emerges from Dambisa Moyo’s Edge of Chaos, in which the Zambian-born author takes aim at the economic failings of the west. Indeed, until her conclusion, Moyo’s argument is oddly...
by admin | Apr 27, 2018 | Nikkei Asian Review
Open pdf Alarms have been ringing over recent weeks about possible Asian aftershocks from a trade war between America and China. Much of this is overblown, given the regional knock-on effect of threatened tariffs is likely to be minimal. Far more worrying are the...
by admin | Mar 30, 2018 | WIRED
Didi Chuxing took on Uber and won. Now it’s taking on the world Jean Liu has a vision. Not far in the future, the president of Didi Chuxing, the world’s largest ride-sharing service, imagines calling a car to her Beijing home. “I probably don’t even need to use...
by admin | Apr 23, 2015 | Prospect Magazine
Narendra Modi stood on the walls of New Delhi’s Red Fort on a blustery morning last August, a man at the height of his recently-acquired powers. It was his first Independence Day speech, and also the first given by an Indian Prime Minister born after the end of...
