Tharman’s win may hasten Singapore’s PM succession
Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s election as president raises inconvenient questions for the ruling PAP but ultimately helps it. Read More Here
Author: lookingbeyondborders
Whose AI Revolution?
Following rapid, profound advances in artificial intelligence, governments around the world are considering how best to regulate the sector, and divergent approaches are already emerging. In the absence of a single universal model, governance of this world-changing technology is sure to be contested. Read More Here
The Return of the Global South
Realism, Not Moralism, Drives a New Critique of Western Power. Read More Here
Can BRICS Derail the Dollar’s Dominance?
The group’s countries share one concern—the growing use of U.S. sanctions to restrict trade and investment globally. Read More Here
Russia’s Murderous Mercenary Prigozhin Is Dead
The Wagner chief’s death in a plane crash was confirmed by Russia’s aviation agency. Read More Here
China’s Slowdown Isn’t Xi’s Biggest Problem
The Chinese leader could soon find himself staving off two different economic crises. One threatens his hold on power. Read More here
Is Japan-style Deflation Coming to China?
China’s real-estate sector is buckling under the weight of falling prices, a huge and growing inventory of unsold units, and highly indebted developers. Add to that slowing GDP growth and falling inflation, and a prolonged period of stagnation and deflation, triggered by a property-bubble collapse, seems increasingly likely. Read More Here
Ukraine to cost half-trillion more if war ends now
Ukraine war will end up being the most costly and perhaps corrupt foreign operation ever carried out by the United States. Read More Here
Why America and China Will Be Enduring Rivals
With U.S.-Chinese relations worse than they have been in over 50 years, an old fairy tale has resurfaced: if only the United States would talk more to China and accommodate its rise, the two countries could live in peace. Read More Here
A BRICS Currency Could Shake the Dollar’s Dominance
It’d be like a new union of up-and-coming discontents who, on the scale of GDP, now collectively outweigh not only the reigning hegemon, the United States, but the entire G-7 weight class put together. Read More Here
