Asia
Government shutdown and Chinese gold
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”...William Butler Yeats, from his poem The Second Coming. Yeats certainly caught the essence of the American political folly that has been on stage for the past two weeks. I was going to write this column two days...
Reflections on the fate of the Middle East Part 2
Britain has happily escaped the fate of Paris, since the House of Commons did not back the idea of a military operation in Syria, proposed by the Prime Minister David Cameron, thus creating the necessary precedent, and allowing Barack Obama to follow the same path...
The US’ “Asia Pivot” and Containment of China
The US’ “Asia Pivot” policy, announced in June 2012, has since been heralded as a ‘new’ cold war in a new disguise against a newly emerging strategic competitor—China. Some analysts have even gone to the extent of tracing seeds of a major armed conflict in the Far East between the US...
