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Covering geo-political news and current affairs across Asia

Tag: book review

Posted inBooks

China must lead the new industrial revolution

by Justin Yifu Lin October 15, 2021October 18, 2021

As a national mandate, the 19th National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2017 announced its “Two Centennial Goals”: the first is to complete building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way in China, which is to be achieved at the 100th anniversary of the CPC in 2021, and the […]

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The not-so-drastic truth behind climate change

by Jonathan Tennenbaum May 9, 2021May 12, 2021
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When America’s religion goes wrong

by Spengler December 30, 2020December 30, 2020
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Abe biography highlights a political evolution

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Why America is cracking up

by Spengler April 27, 2020April 28, 2020
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The unbearable lightness of China

by Pepe Escobar April 23, 2020May 24, 2020
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We need our mojo back vis-à-vis China

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For Khashoggi: Memoir tracks rise of radicalism

by Alison Tahmizian Meuse May 13, 2019February 18, 2020
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Lessons that simply don’t hold water

by Scott A. Shay January 11, 2019February 18, 2020
Idea of Integrity copy
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West’s growing decline: outcome of gross integrity deficit

by Bhim Bhurtel October 2, 2018
Scott Shay draws a bright line between monotheism and what he calls idolatry – the elevation of what is not God to the status of God.
Posted inAT Finance, China, Egypt, European Union, India, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Middle East, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

Not by bread (or rice) alone

by David P. Goldman September 26, 2018February 18, 2020
US President Donald Trump and Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha shake hands during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on October 2, 2017. Photo: AFP/Mandel Ngan
Posted inAT Finance, China, Egypt, India, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, South Asia, Thailand, World

Thailand between a US rock and Chinese hard place

by Paul Wedel September 23, 2018February 18, 2020
Technological advancements have simultaneously broken down global borders and caused new areas of conflict. Image: iStock/Getty Images
Posted inChina, World

Leapfrogging: How China caught up to Silicon Valley

by George Koo August 31, 2018August 31, 2018
In this handout photograph released by the Pakistan-Tehreek-Insaf party on January 8, 2015, Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan and his then-new wife Reham Khan pose during prayers in their wedding ceremony at his house in Islamabad. Photo: AFP / PTI
Posted inIndia, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Reham Khan’s book controversial, but also courageous

by Imad Zafar July 18, 2018
Kishore Mahbubani makes a speech in a file photo. Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, France, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Malaysia, Middle East, Russia, Singapore, South Asia, Syria, United Kingdom, Vietnam, World

The folly of East versus West, and the rise of ‘The Rest’

by David Hutt June 17, 2018February 18, 2020
Blurry silhouettes and shadows of people walking on the city sidewalk.Photo: iStock
Posted inAfghanistan, India, Pakistan, South Asia

On ‘The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace’

by Imad Zafar June 1, 2018June 1, 2018
Posted inNorth Korea, Northeast Asia, South Asia, South Korea, World

It’s not Just Kim Jong-un who has the ‘Nuclear Blues’

by Andrew Salmon November 18, 2017February 18, 2020
US President Donald Trump delivers a threat-filled address at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2017. Yet science fiction envisages an even bleaker future. Photo: Reuters / Lucas Jackson
Posted inAT Finance, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

Sci-fi writer manages to imagine even worse dystopia

by Bradley K. Martin October 7, 2017February 18, 2020
Two women visit a job fair in Berlin for migrants and refugees on January 25, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch
Posted inAfghanistan, European Union, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, Syria, World

Germany’s refugee crisis through the looking-glass

by Spengler September 11, 2017
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The man who would be king

by Pepe Escobar March 21, 2007September 10, 2020

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