Opinion

The Trump administration is stepping up pressure on China in a low-key campaign of increased naval activities aimed at undermining Beijing's vast territorial claims over the South China Sea. The US guided-missile...

It’s time to buy Asian stocks. In fact, last Friday was the time to buy Asian stocks. Outside of Japan, a relief rally buoyed Korean, Chinese  and Southeast Asian equities, with...

Donald Trump has been following in his predecessor Barack Obama's footsteps, mounting three "freedom of navigation operations" (FNOPs) in the South China Sea since ascending to the US presidency. His third...

One does not want to appear blasé about the growing North Korean missile-and-nuke threat, but it is hardly anything new. Pyongyang detonated its first nuclear weapon more than a decade ago....

During a series of bilateral meetings in Manila from August 6-8, the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed to strengthen cooperation on defense and security matters. Maritime security,...

Not long ago, over dinner in Singapore, we attempted to define what qualities make a great leader. For Klaus, the five key elements were heart, brain, muscle, nerve and soul. For...

In recent years two phenomena have come to dominate the international scene. One is the appearance of what have been given the name “failed states”.   We know that in recent years there...

Over recent years Asia and the Pacific has been turned from a digital factory reliant on cheap labor into a digital hub reliant on creative industry. It is home to 60%...

Chinese children will come home from school, show a photograph of their math homework to the home robot and get an immediate answer. Calculators may go the way of the abacus. In...

News stories about the current Sino-Indian border dispute offer a lesson in how appearance – and US press coverage of a crisis can be deceiving. The border dispute broke out when...

Iraqi Kurdistan is on the verge of an historic proposed referendum on independence. In an exclusive interview with Manish Rai, editor of ViewsAround, Kurdistan's foreign minister, Falah Mustafa Bakir, outlined how...

Catholics in Hong Kong have a new leader. Monsignor Michael Yeung, 71, officially took over Aug. 5 as ordinary bishop of the local diocese. He was named by Pope Francis to replace...

On Monday and Tuesday, China’s state-run media used very strong language to attack Vietnam, its communist neighbor and a key South China Sea rival. This reproach came after the foreign ministers...

Thai shares, lagging the region with a 12% MSCI Index gain through July, shrugged off a breakthrough post-ASEAN summit visit by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The meeting ended the...

It wasn’t too long ago that bourses saw red as a market rout wiped off billions in valuations from Sydney to Singapore, triggered by a sense of panic that was linked...

The Xinhua news agency and China Daily newspaper, two authoritative platforms of Chinese policies, held out warnings this week over the military standoff with India near the Sikkim border. China Daily starkly wrote...

Like it or not, the president of the United States embodies America itself. The individual inhabiting the White House has become the pre-eminent symbol of who we Americans are and what...

When I lived in China, one of the first major differences I noticed from life in the US was how safe I felt walking down the street. I almost never got...

The world is increasingly urban, with cities projected to gain 2.5 billion more residents by 2050 – mostly in Asia and Africa. As we face escalating global crises such as climate change,...

On July 26, opposition stalwart Nitish Kumar resigned his position as chief minister of the key northern Indian state of Bihar, thereby damaging the prospects of the emerging  "grand alliance" (maha-gatbandhan) of...

Media reports abound that US President Donald Trump is about to invoke Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act, which empowers him to investigate and impose harsh penalties against China's "unfair"...