Even in Hong Kong, Global Anxieties
Hong Kong—Looking out over Hong Kong harbor, it’s easy to grasp the logic of the town’s marketing slogan, “Asia’s World City.” Flocks of ships come and go from expanded ports. Businessmen from [...]
Central Asia’s New Great Game: Russia, China and the (Missing) US
Rome—Because of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, there is much talk about Moscow’s supposed desire to create a kind of USSR-Lite. But it is not just in Europe where Vladimir Putin is campaigning [...]
Lee Kwan Yew, Confucius and the Myth of Asian Values
London, March 23, 2015—(Please note a comment by friend Dimon Liu at bottom) There’s no doubt that Lee Kwan Yew, the Singapore political leader and patriarch who died over the weekend at 91, transformed [...]