New tanks and new fighters – Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen hints that the US may be ready to risk China’s anger and sell the island some upgrades. I discuss Tsai’s Palau, Nauru and Marshall Islands jaunt and her crucial Hawaii stop over with Monocle radio. You can listen here:
As President Xi Jinping arrives in Italy, I discuss the “Belt and Road”, the EU, Trump and more with Sinologist Francesco Sisci . The discussion, on Monocle radio, can be heard here:
Italy may be set to be the first G7 nation to join China’s ambitious and huge Belt and Road Initiative. I discussed the implications with Monocle radio.
The failed Hanoi summit was followed immediately by the U.S. announcing it would not hold its usual massive military maneuvers with South Korea any more. What does this actually mean for the U.S. in Asia? Korea expert Ramon Pacheco Pardo and I discussed this and more on Monocle Radio.
The always heated rhetoric between China and Taiwan has ratcheted up another notch at the Lunar New Year, with China even issuing a soft-porn like military video entitled “My War Eagles Are Flying Around The Treasured Island”. The video, which should be seen to be believed, can be viewed here. Monocle radio invited Professor Steven..
With one month to go before a Sino-US trade war either is resolved or erupts again, I talked about brinkmanship diplomacy, intellectual property theft and the future of tech dominance with Monocle radio.
Making predictions is fools’ work, but every year Robert Ciemniak of Real Estate Foresight Ltd. asks me to put my neck out for his China Property Outlook seminar. Here’s my January 2019 view, with a look back to 12 months earlier
Taiwan’s raucous democracy is set for a referendum on gay marriage this Saturday – I discussed with Monocle Radio 24.
Like partners in a bad relationship, the US and China can’t find much right with each other these days. I discuss with Monocle radio:
After decades of draconian family planning policies to limit its population growth, China is now facing a demographic crisis: it is growing old, with fewer babies than it needs. A legislative shakeup is in the works, but it’s not going to work, I tell Monocle Radio.