An understanding of demographic trends can assist governments in targeting policies for the future and saving money for education, retirement, taxes, healthcare, distribution of natural resources, and more. More importantly, targeted policies can ease resentment emerging over demographic imbalances...
Demographic certainty: Population is in decline in developed countries (top); the number of elderly is on the rise in ChinaNEW YORK: While governments and institutions try to grapple with economic uncertainty and volatility an important factor of...
Global powers express renewed interest in the Indo-Pacific, and intentions are divided over strategies that could counter China or entice Chinese participation. The Indo-Pacific region dominated discussions at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, even more so than the summit between leaders of...
What’s in a name? US Defense Secretary James N. Mattis explains the geopolitical significance of the Indo-Pacific region while India’s Premier Narendra Modi downplays political significance
SINGAPORE: The 2018 Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore might...
When David Byrne, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, visited Thailand in mid-January to discuss agriculture and trade issues, his meeting with Thai leaders was considered a mutual success. At the time, Byrne had said EU food safety regulations posed no barrier and that the...
Stung by lies told by Thai leaders over the bird-flu epidemic, the EU will find it difficult to trust Thailand again
The Thai leaders must have the courage to apologise to David Byrne, Commissioner for Health...
India as an emerging economy struggles with constrained growth and rising unemployment. Yet India’s voters handed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party a decisive victory. Gilles Verniers, assistant professor of Political Science and co-director of the Trivedi Centre for...
Full focus: A photograph of Narendra Modi meditating on the Indian election’s final day went viral, and voters gave the prime minister a decisive victory, based on his image as a protector, despite growing ranks of unemployed
NEW DELHI: The...
While some anti-globalization activists deplore the spread of American culture via such food outlets as McDonald’s and KFC, there is evidence that the exchange of food culture is not simply uni-directional. Filipino, Japanese, and Hong Kong fast food chains are spreading into US markets, bringing...
You want fries with that? How about a palabok fiesta? A banana langka pie? Or a buko pandan tapioca ball tea?
Jollibee -- a fast-food giant from Manila -- recently opened its first store in downtown San...
In an interview with Germany's F.A.Z. Weekly, the Turkish ambassador to Germany, Mehmet Ali Irtemcelik, discusses the importance of integrating German Muslims of Turkish descent, Germany's largest immigrant group, into mainstream German society. The erroneous perception of all Muslims as...
The Turkish ambassador to Germany, Mehmet Ali Irtemcelik discusses the integration of Germany's largest immigrant group, and Turkey's possible entry into the European Union, with the Frankfurter Allgemeine...
US Vice President Mike Pence’s 2018 speech at the Hudson Institute, stopping short at inaugurating a new Cold War, bluntly enumerated China’s encroachment on US interests. His words illustrated the Trump administration’s perception of the rising power in the East, one determined to replace the...
To create jobs and boost US manufacturing, the Trump administration must develop strategic trade policies. However, the rising value of the US dollar and market expectations for tax cuts and spending complicate policymaking, explains Chris Miller, author and associate director of the Brady-Johnson...
Good or down? President Donald Trump wants to know which dollar and trade policies are good for creating jobs, and China’s deepwater port Yangshan is ready to ship containers around the world
NEW HAVEN: Reports that US President Donald Trump called...
