Beijing seriously concerned by McCarthy-Tsai meeting

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The Chinese government is seriously concerned by a potential meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy, who originally planned to visit Taipei, said Tuesday that he will meet Tsai in the US this year. He stressed that such an arrangement does not preclude his trip to Taiwan in […]Continue Reading

Malaysia’s ex-PM Muhyiddin summoned to anti-graft agency again

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Anwar’s office and the MACC did not immediately reply to requests for comment. Anwar and Mr Muhyiddin went head-to-head in a tightly contested election in November that resulted in a hung parliament as neither candidate won a parliamentary majority. Malaysia’s constitutional monarch, King Al-Sultan Abdullah, then appointed Anwar as primeContinue Reading

China in a hard pivot to more supply-side reforms

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Ten years ago, when China’s leader first took power, Xi Jinping pledged to let market forces play a “decisive” role in economic policy and financial regulation. At the time, and since, foreign investors assumed that meant the government would set the private sector free. Yet a decade on, Xi is now making an argument few […]Continue Reading