Project Syndicate – Page 5 – Asia Times

Access to quality health care is crucial to a democratic society. Photo: iStock

European Union, United Kingdom, World

Putting the public back in public health

by Mariana Mazzucato December 4, 2018

This file photo taken on July 31, 1991, shows US president George Bush and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev during a press conference in Moscow concluding the two-day US-Soviet Summit dedicated to the disarmament. Bush died at age 94, his family announced late on November 30, 2018. Photo: AFP / Mike Fisher

Afghanistan, European Union, Germany, India, Iraq, Kuwait, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, World

The world George H W Bush made

by Richard N. Haass December 3, 2018

Smartphones and mobile internet are key enablers of the digital economy and the rise of mobile payment systems has supercharged their inclusive effect. Photo: iStock

China looks for digital key to inclusive growth

by Chen Long and Michael Spence November 30, 2018February 18, 2020

Female reporter taking notes at press conference. Photo: iStock

World

The mundane assault on news media

by Alexandra Borchardt November 30, 2018

Palestinian schoolchildren chant slogans and raise the victory gesture over a UN flag during a protest at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school, financed by US aid, in the Arroub refugee camp near Hebron in the occupied West Bank on September 5, 2018.
Photo: AFP / Hazem Bader

European Union, United Kingdom, World

Ways must be found to finance international cooperation

by Jeffrey D. Sachs November 29, 2018

Photo: iStock

AT Finance, China, Egypt, European Union, India, Japan, Mexico, Middle East, New Zealand, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, United Kingdom, Vietnam, World

The threat of ‘silent inflation’

by Robert J Shiller November 28, 2018

Photo: AFP

China, European Union, World

Securing the digital revolution

by Julian King November 27, 2018

Cash is being used less and less and has nearly disappeared in countries such as Sweden and China while digital payment systems offer attractive alternatives to services once provided by traditional commercial banks.Photo: iStock

AT Finance, China, India, Singapore, South Asia, World

Why central bank digital currencies could destroy crypto

by Nouriel Roubini November 21, 2018February 18, 2020

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends the inauguration of Chabahar port on December 3, 2017. Photo: Iranian Presidency / AFP

Afghanistan, China, European Union, France, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, Syria, United Kingdom, World

America’s senseless Iran sanctions

by Amin Saikal November 21, 2018

Mohammad Bin Salman. Photo: AFP

AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Russia, United Kingdom, Vietnam, World

The inconvenient truth about Saudi Arabia

by Richard N. Haass November 21, 2018

Women rally against sexual abuse in downtown Seoul. Photo: Andrew Salmon

Uncategorized

The media’s #MeToo problem

by Hannah Storm November 18, 2018

Globalization. Photo: iStock

Beijing, China, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Northeast Asia, World

The case for embracing compensated free trade

by Robert Skidelsky November 16, 2018

Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration to condemn the lynching and murder of an Indian Muslim in Mumbai on October 6, 2015. Photo: AFP/Inranil Mukerjee

Middle East, Turkey, World

Why freedom of assembly still matters

by Jan-Werner Mueller November 14, 2018

Boys play football in a public park on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 2, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi

India, South Asia, World

Inaction on air pollution is killing too many Indians

by Shashi Tharoor November 14, 2018

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walk through a garden before lunch in Yamanakako village, Yamanashi prefecture, on October 28, 2018. Photo: The Yomiuri Shimbun

AT Finance, Australia, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Philippines, South Asia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, World

Japan, India at center of concert of Indo-Pacific democracies

by Brahma Chellaney November 13, 2018

US House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks during a press conference after Democrats took back control of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, on November 7, 2018. Photo: AFP / Nicholas Kamm

World

What now for America?

by Ian Buruma November 9, 2018November 9, 2018

Photo: AFP/Nicolas Asfouri

Beijing, China, Germany, India, Japan, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

The cooperative rivalry of US-China relations

by Joseph S. Nye November 7, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on May 25, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Sergei Bobylev/TASS

Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

The danger of an unpopular Putin

by Tikhon Dzyadko November 2, 2018

Bombs dropped from a B-1B Lancer strike an al-Qaeda torture house and prison in Zambraniyah in Iraq in 2008. Photo: AFP via Atlas Photo Archive/ USAF/ James Richardson

AT Finance, Beijing, Cambodia, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Laos, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, Syria, United Kingdom, Vietnam, World

Killer politicians: Curtain of deniability lifting

by Jeffrey D. Sachs October 25, 2018

Former US President Bill Clinton, who was the event's keynote speaker, compared the emergence of blockchain with that of e-commerce in the late 90s. Photo: AFP

China, South Asia, World

The end of America’s China fantasy

by Brahma Chellaney October 23, 2018

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang in April. Photo: AFP/US Government

AT Finance, China, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, World

Denuclearization and ‘defining diplomacy down’

by Richard N. Haass October 23, 2018

The UK is finally having a conversation about migration. Photo: iStock

European Union, Middle East, United Kingdom, World

Are Britons really softening on immigration?

by Johnny Runge October 21, 2018February 18, 2020

City of London banker. Photo: iStock

European Union, United Kingdom, World

The high cost of high finance

by Howard Davies October 20, 2018

Artificial intelligence will behave differently in different cultures. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

China, European Union, France, Middle East, New Zealand, Oceania, World

The case against national strategies on artificial intelligence

by Mark Esposito, Terence Tse and Joshua Entsminger October 20, 2018February 18, 2020

Pandora's AI. Image: iStock

An AI wake-up call from Ancient Greece

by Adrienne Mayor October 19, 2018

US President Donald Trump with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in the Oval Office at the White House. Photo: Mark Wilson / dpa for AFP

AT Finance, China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria, United Kingdom, Vietnam, World

The US-Saudi relationship after Khashoggi

by Barak Barfi October 17, 2018

Jamal Khashoggi was murdered when he visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. Photo: AFP

AT Finance, China, Egypt, Jordan, Middle East, Myanmar, Turkey, World

The martyrdom of Jamal Khashoggi

by Daoud Kuttab October 16, 2018

Pensioners take part in a demonstration to protest pension cuts and new government measures in Athens, Greece on Oct. 3, 2017. Photo: AFP Forum

European Union, France, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom, World

Is pensioner populism here to stay?

by Edoardo Campanella October 13, 2018

Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj. Photo: NDTV

AT Finance, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, World

India’s dangerous Pakistan policy

by Shashi Tharoor October 11, 2018

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United Kingdom, World

Can investments be too efficient?

by Diane Coyle October 11, 2018