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Friendly foes - Explaining the rift between South Korea and Japan
If the world were governed by rationality, Japan and South Korea would be the closest of allies. Both face security risks from the...


Amazon - Forever Sheathed in Scandal?
Well, it looks like Amazon is back in the hot seat - that’s if it has ever got off of it. Their latest scandal involves their supplier,...


Putin is right about liberalism - But he doesn't have to be
Vladimir Putin has fired his latest broadside against Western political ideas, by claiming that liberalism has become ‘obsolete’. The...


Hong Kong: Teetering towards totalitarianism?
“One country, two systems”- The modus operandi formulated by Deng Xiaoping in the early 1980s has ever since served as the blueprint for...


Modi's Re-election: A win for identity politics
Going into the new year, there was a near-consensus among political punditry that, while not suffering an overall loss, the Indian Prime...


Russia and North Korea talks are just a diplomatic spectacle
On the 25th of April, North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un met with Russian President, Vladimir Putin for talks focused on efforts to...


Bibi’s Back: Netanyahu’s re-election and Israeli 'democracy'
So, there it is. At the end of a dogged, close fought race, Benjamin Netanyahu has once again crawled to the top of the pile, retaining...


The horse that tames the dragon? EU Struggles For a United Policy On China
“Cooperation is better than confrontation, and we have more to gain from opening than from being closed.” Such statements are routine...


Two is company, three’s a crowd: North Korea, China and the United States
North Korea, also known as the ‘Hermit Kingdom’, is a country that for the better half of a century has faced diplomatic and economic...


Trump-Kim Summits: Do the talks yield any success?
When I watched the first handshake between the leader of the capitalist free world and the Stalinist supreme dictator of the most...
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