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Baht headache
Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/12/2025
» Re: "BoT cracks down on surging baht", (Business, Dec 17). While the baht's currency strength is an ever-more concerning issue, as pointed out numerous times, what is rarely mentioned is the likely excess Thai foreign reserves, nearing an astonishing US$270 billion.
Digital dystopia
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/08/2025
» Re: "Thai govt issues new rules for SIM cards", (BP, Aug 21).
China's misplaced pandemic propaganda
Asia focus, Minxin Pei, Published on 13/04/2020
» Barely a month ago, China was in the grip of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak. Thousands of new infections were being confirmed every day. Hospitals were overwhelmed. People were dying by the hundreds. People couldn't leave their homes.
China's risky endgame in Hong Kong
Asia focus, Minxin Pei, Published on 25/11/2019
» Although the rapid escalation of violence in Hong Kong seems terrifying enough, things may be about to get much worse.
A Tiananmen solution in Hong Kong?
Asia focus, Minxin Pei, Published on 02/09/2019
» The crisis in Hong Kong appears to be careening toward a devastating climax. With China's government now using rhetoric reminiscent of the warnings that preceded the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989, Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters -- and, indeed, its democracy -- could well be in grave danger.
The lasting tragedy of the Tiananmen massacre
News, Minxin Pei, Published on 03/06/2019
» China's progress toward an open society ended when the People's Liberation Army (PLA) slaughtered at least hundreds, if not thousands, of peaceful demonstrators in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989. The crackdown left a lasting stain on the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), despite the regime's unrelenting efforts to whitewash history and suppress collective memory.
The risks of China's Taiwan policy
News, Minxin Pei, Published on 14/01/2019
» The unfolding geopolitical contest between China and the United States has been described by many as a new cold war. If it ever becomes a hot one, the flash point could be Taiwan, owing in large part to Chinese policy toward the island.