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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…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Cambodia’s new worldbyDerwin PereiraMay 15, 2023 The ongoing political transition in Cam- bodia has implications for the strate- gic future of a small state…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read The Thailand behind the latest newsbyDerwin PereiraApril 10, 2023 Thailand’s general election in May draws political attention to its record as a Southeast Asian success story. It…
PPolitical Read More 2 minute read Lawlessness in uniformbyDerwin PereiraFebruary 5, 2023 The egregious killing of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, after a traffic stop in Memphis led to…