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Four hard choices in the Covid War
WHO could have imagined that the Cold War could morph into a Cool War and now a Covid War? The Cold War was fought between the United States and the former Soviet Union, ending with the latter’s dissolution. The Cool War is still festering with the US-China trade conflicts.
US millennials approach middle age in crisis
New data show they’re in worse financial shape than every preceding living generation and may never recover
Two NPC sessions in China
What are we to do? by Lin See-Yan UNLIKE the consultations last year, the 2019 annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in early March (two sessions) was sobering in setting the tone for economic policies in 2019 and beyond.
I drank myself to the bottom of Luckin Coffee’s IPO
The pending Nasdaq debut of China’s Luckin Coffee Inc begs the question of whether it’s a purveyor of beverages, or a technology company.
An existential identity crisis
Having visited Washington DC, London and Beijing in the last fortnight, the eerie feeling is a perspective of confused existentialism. In Washington, the mood is “My Way or No Way”; in London, “If Brexit, May Exit”, and in Beijing, “One Belt, One Road”.
India’s crony capitalist edifice is creaking
A smug, entitled business class driven by greed and hubris, but sorely lacking in resources to legitimise their control. I could be describing the India Inc of today - or 1959. Nothing much has changed.
Rethinking social progress in the 21st century
WHAT do we mean by social progress? That is the theme explored by the International Panel on Social Progress, a group of over 300 academics, including Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. After four years of work, its report has finally been published last month by Cambridge University Press, with a useful summary at www.ipsp.org.
China's Xi says study capitalism, but Marxism remains top
BEIJING: Communist Party members should study contemporary capitalism but must never deviate from Marxism, Chinese President Xi Jinping said, offering a clear signal there will be no weakening of party control weeks ahead of a key Congress opening.
China tightens rules for online news providers
Beijing: China has issued new internet regulations increasing Communist party control over online news providers, the latest step in the country’s push to tighten its policing of the Web.
China likely to have next Silicon Valley
What are we to do? - By Lin See-Yan
MANY readers ask: What’s the “Two Sessions” in China (for 11 days until March 15) all about? How significant are they for China?
