Myanmar election: military seeks legitimacy amid war, exclusion
On Sunday December 28, Myanmar goes to the polls for the first phase of its first general election since the military coup of February 1, 2021.
First and second largest economies in charts and figures
One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do. Two can be as bad as one. It’s the loneliest number since the number one. Aimee mann China is the world’s second largest economy.
The Asian danger from Trump’s spheres-of-interest approach
For Japan, South Korea and other Asian security allies, the good news about America’s new National Security Strategy when it was published on December 5th was that they were not treated as shockingly badly as were the Europeans.
Hannah Arendt can help us understand today’s far-right populism
Sales of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) rocketed when Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election.