Resurgence of a powerful QUAD to counter an Asian giant
Since the start of the 21st century, there has been a growing fear of an ambitious power like China developing its strategic as well as economic influence in the Asian continent and all the...
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Japan: Saving Relationships From Coronavirus
Lockdown means to make or breaks for many relationships, including marriages. Families in Japan are learning how to deal with pressure. Some are even enjoying the escape from the daily commute to the office....
Coronavirus Highlights Poverty of Asia’s Governance
The coincidence was almost poetic. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) 2019 Democracy Index was released in January, and once again confirmed Asia’s lack of any mature democracy. At the same time, the coronavirus spreading...
Asia’s shameful gender discrimination
The annual release of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report is always a moment of great shame for Asia’s leading economies. The relative gaps between Asian women and men on measures of health, education,...
For all the focus on Asia’s high achievers, the laggards are many
China led the education rankings, but an ageing population and gap with Southeast Asia might mark down the whole region, wrote John West. Many countries see it as an Olympic Games for education. Every...
How Asia transformed from the poorest continent in the world into a global economic powerhouse
In 1820, Asia accounted for two-thirds of the world’s population and more than one-half of global income. The subsequent decline of Asia was attributed to its integration with a world economy shaped by colonialism...
China, a low productivity superpower?
In the space of just a few decades, China has risen to become a world and certainly an Asian regional power. And now China and the US have locked horns in a great power...
Asia has most to lose if Middle East turmoil hits oil supplies
U.S. President Donald Trump says he might take military action against Iran to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon. But he has indicated he won’t necessarily jump in to protect international oil supplies...
Twinning Europe and Asia in Cyberspace
The EU Legislation and its transformative power While our troposphere is dangerously polluted, one other space – that of intangible world, created by the interconnected technology – follows the same pattern: a cyberspace. Additionally,...
Op-ed: The Chinese Dawn of Neo-colonialism
Scholars of the 21st Century have very well unfolded the chapter of colonialism and how the rise of colonialism swept most of the now developing countries. However, these days the focus shifts towards Asia...
