PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Lessons for Asia from a bad European warbyDerwin PereiraMarch 31, 2024 Neither side is winning, two years and more after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 in an escalation…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Prabowo’s Indonesia and the Great PowersbyDerwin PereiraMarch 4, 2024 The resounding victory of Prabowo Subianto in the Indonesian presidential election has sparked the usual question: How will…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Prabowo’s Indonesia?byDerwin PereiraFebruary 5, 2024 Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto is set to make his mark in the general election to be held…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Indonesia in presidential moodbyDerwin PereiraNovember 20, 2023 Indonesia is in a presidential mood. That is to say, citizens are enthused by the idea of looming…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Taiwan does not need warbyDerwin PereiraOctober 7, 2023 It is worrying that Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has declared that he is preparing for the possibility…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Twenty good fellowsbyDerwin PereiraSeptember 29, 2023 The recently concluded Group of 20 (G20) summit held in India was a diplomatic success. The meeting adopted…
PPolitical Read More 7 minute read City and Kingdom: America and China in AsiabyDerwin PereiraJuly 29, 2023 China’s established return to the hierarchy of great powers raises questions about cosmology and international relations. In the…
PPolitical Read More 7 minute read Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore at the centenary of his birthbyDerwin PereiraJuly 7, 2023 When he rose like a comet in the political sky in the 1950s, he was Singapore’s Lee Kuan…
PPolitical Read More 3 minute read Do they really know Joe Biden?byDerwin PereiraJune 12, 2023 One of the perils of America’s prominence in global affa irs is that it affects the psyche of…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Opportunity for Anwar to burnish his credentialsbyDerwin PereiraJune 11, 2023 The Malaysian government has decided to take over the troubled firm, Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS), to complete the…