A U.S. probe into China’s intellectual infringement raises trade risk
December 19, 2017The U.S. government continues to depict China as a practitioner of unfair trade practices. Its growing threats to impose countermeasures pose a direct threat to companies with trans-Pacific supply chains.
Read moreElection Watch: New Maoist violence in Nepal
November 29, 2017Most of Nepal’s Maoist ex-guerrillas have transitioned into peaceful democratic politics. Now, however, a splinter faction of hardliners is using violence to promote itself ahead of general elections. Their activities are likely to intensify should their former Maoist comrades win power.
Read moreGuizhou: China’s pilot big data zone
November 24, 2017The impoverished and mountainous south-western province of Guizhou has become a laboratory for China’s future socio-economic priorities. Yet the likely failure of such policies could well serve as another example of the substantial capital misallocation within the country’s planned economy.
Read morePakistan, rudderless but resilient
November 1, 2017The supreme court’s decision in July to disqualify from office the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has left a leadership vacuum. The supreme court’s decision in July to disqualify from office the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has left a leadership vacuum.
Read moreThailand’s year-long political hiatus ends with the late king’s funeral
October 31, 2017Between 26-29 October millions of Thais had the opportunity to demonstrate their affection and sense of loss over the death more than one year ago of a monarch many viewed as their only real protection between an often self-serving and occasionally brutal military and a rapacious commercial class.
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