Power Plays in the Indo-Pacific: The Quad Alliance and the Battle for Maritime Dominance
The Indo-Pacific is generally regarded as a US construct covering the Indian Ocean from the African coast and the western and central Pacific Ocean...
The billionaires around Trump
While US President Donald Trump continues to pursue his Make America Great Again (MAGA) ideologies, some are beginning to question the influence of the...
Trump’s misreading of China’s resolve: This could be a legacy breaker
One could interpret US President Donald Trump’s tariff imposition on some 49 countries as an invitation to negotiate their respective trade positions with the...
The challenges of decoupling manufacturing from China
Back in the late 1980s, the relocation of American manufacturing to China, labeled the ‘factory of the world,’ became the latest trend in strategic...
Trump: Expectations, reality, and everything in-between
US President Donald Trump has been superactive with all the hyperbole that was expected. More executive orders have been issued than ever before in...
Why the US-Australian alliance needs immediate re-examination
Over the last decades, much has been said about Chinese CCP influence upon Australian politicians and government officials. However, ever since the days when...
Looking at Trumpism as the ‘greatest show on Earth’: Understanding what makes up the Trump phenomenon
Trumpism is just so much more than “The Art of the Deal”. Trump is much deeper than the dynamics of ‘The Apprentice’. Trumpism has...
Curing Malaysia’s National Psychosis
Malaysia
has reached a chronic situation where the police are using the court system to
suppress alternative points of view by banning closed door meetings of...
Malaysia: Yet another crisis looming?
Love him or
hate him, Mahathir Mohamed during his first stint as prime minister was able to
instill a great sense of national pride and unity.
Mahathir
went...
Why we should care about Julian Assange
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange in 2010
published information provided to him by then-US Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning
that comprised nearly 750,000 classified or unclassified but...