Connectivity, Connectivity, Connectivity: Has the China-Europe Freight Train Become a Winning Run?
By Xiangming Chen
In “China and Europe: Reconnecting across a New Silk Road” (Xiangming Chen and Julie Mardeusz ’16, The European Financial Review, February/March 2015),...
Philippine 2022 Election Amid Elevated US-China Tensions
By Dan Steinbock
Overshadowed by US-Sino friction and xenophobic rhetoric, the 2022 election campaigns are getting ugly. Old elites hope to derail...
Central Asia Prepares for Taliban Takeover
By Gavin Helf, Ph.D. and Barmak Pazhwak
As U.S. and NATO forces drew down their military presence in Afghanistan this Summer, the country’s northern neighbors witnessed Taliban fighters...
Britain’s Scramble Out of Kabul; the Moral and Strategic Cost
By Professor Michael Clarke
The process of western withdrawal from Afghanistan in August and the scenes at Kabul airport as western allies were ushered out of the...
Sovereigns in the Courtroom: Is the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act the Golden Key?
By Kiran Nasir Gore and Charles H. Camp
How can a foreign sovereign be brought into an American courtroom to answer for its bad acts? This...
The Bilateral Swap Agreements, Chinese Currency and the Demise of the US Dollar
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
I examine here the role of China’s bilateral swap agreements (BSAs) and the internationalization of its currency Renminbi (RMB). A...
World of the Shipwrecked Leadership
By Prof. J. Scott Younger, OBE
The Tokyo Olympic Games, just concluded, were a spectacular success and grateful thanks are owed to our Japanese hosts...
Afghanistan: Western Powers Must Accept Defeat and Deal Realistically with the Taliban
By Sten Rynning
The short version of events in Afghanistan is that Pakistan won and the international alliance led by the United States lost. Of...
Why the US Won’t Be Able to Shirk Moral Responsibility in Leaving Afghanistan
By Michael Blake
The majority of the remaining American troops in Afghanistan were withdrawn recently, with the rest due to leave by the end of August...
How China and EU can help with Asia’s Post-pandemic Recovery
By Huiyao (Henry) Wang
The pandemic has cast a severe negative influence on the world economy. The Global Economic Outlook Report released by the Organization...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI
By Terence Tse
CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value.
A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...
