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Sunday presents a man that everyone listens to …
Mr George Yeo (Visiting Scholar, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Founding Patron, Asia Competitiveness Institute)
George Yeo is Singapore’s former foreign minister. Unassuming, charmingly direct, an honest man with a clear vision of today’s international relations and geopolitical status. He is a China expert and presents the Chinese view in the context of… Continue reading
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Aug 19 2022 China’s Growing Military Might
What many in the West at first dismissed as a tantrum thrown by Beijing over the unauthorized visit of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan appears instead to be a carefully thought-out strategy designed to incrementally reassert Chinese sovereignty over the island territory. Beijing’s ability to do this is underwritten by the… Continue reading
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Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly
(aka Nancy does Taiwan)
Why did China allow Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan?
The upside of that visit was too large, too big to ignore. At stake are the legitimate reasons for a first phase of decoupling.
On the quick takes and the longer takes in our sphere of pundits, we saw basically two… Continue reading
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Aug 15 2022 Here Comes China: Check out the Chips
This regular China Expo is presented with Godfree Roberts from his Here Comes China Newsletter. If you want to know about China, get the newsletter. This article is but a small representation of the 50 news items ranging from Business, Economy, Trade, Technology, Health, Society, Environment and Longer Reads on a weekly basis.… Continue reading