Twenty years after the Asian financial crisis, it is important to understand the situation from a Malaysian perspective. In July 1997, the Bank of Thailand withdrew from intervening (pegging Thai baht to US dollars) to defend the baht when its...
Will Donald Trump be the fourth consecutive US president to fail in preventing North Korea from expanding its nuclear capability? When North Korea launched its latest missile on July 4, it was yet another auspiciously timed message for the world...
How should the United States respond to the detention and subsequent death of an American student who visited North Korea? North Korea is not a tourist destination that I generally recommend for Americans. South Koreans have special reasons to visit...
China’s Belt and Road initiative has a strong potential to serve as a great source of regional integration, political stability and economic empowerment. Back in the year 2008, an illiterate seer in the remote Indian village of Rajasthan...
In Southeast Asia, no country had the ambition or ruthlessness of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Two competing visions of ensuring regime survival are battling it out in the Gulf. To Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the Arab Uprisings of 2011...
