US needs to move now to deter a Taiwan takeover

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This is part two of “The World After Taiwan’s Fall,” which reviews the key findings and recommendations of a Pacific Forum study. Read part one. Intervention is essential Finding: The only thing slightly worse than the United States intervening and failing to reverse a PRC invasion of Taiwan would be the United States not intervening. A […]Continue Reading

China’s northeast hints at looming pension crisis

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Professor of Social Science and Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Stuart Gietel-Basten, says reforms are needed at a policy level. “In terms of social welfare and social security, more investment is going to be required in that area and particularly I think in reformingContinue Reading

Cambodia: when Hun Manet takes over from Hun Sen

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Three out of four Cambodians have never known life without Hun Sen. The Prime Minister, currently the longest-serving one in the world, came into power during the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia in 1985. Some 75% of Cambodians were born after that. But Hun Sen is only 70 or 71 years old and appears to be in reasonably good health. […]Continue Reading

Challenges before India’s G20 foreign ministers’ meet

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This Thursday and Friday, New Delhi will host the Group of Twenty Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, which is widely expected to provide a peek into the likely scenarios for the G20 Summit in September, also hosted by India. And going by the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting held in Bangalore late last week, […]Continue Reading