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Welcome to the Asian century
Life, Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Published on 06/03/2020
» 'The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign land." Hugh of Saint Victor.
City of angels and demons
Life, Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Published on 22/03/2019
» You can leave the place where you were born, but it never truly leaves you. It's always there, calling you home.
Not universally applicable
Life, Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Published on 03/08/2015
» In 1992, political economist Francis Fukuyama published a book that elevated him to the level of intellectual stardom. The End of History And The Last Man investigates the patterns of human and societal evolutions, which, according to Fukuyama, may find itself in the form of society and state that resembles Western liberal democracy in the final stage. History ends because we are going to live more or less the same way, that is in the form of Western government with basic life conditions determined by varying degrees of democracy. Philosophically controversial it was, given that it came out in the aftermath of two world wars, the fall of Berlin Wall, the demise of the Soviet Union and an emergence of "East Asia miracle", The End Of History, to many, was a prophetic prediction of the world we lived in. Not West, not East, but the world.
The bubbling cauldron
Life, Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Published on 23/03/2015
» On April 22 last year, at the Western Pacific Naval Symposium in Qingdao, China, 21 Pacific countries signed the "Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (Cues)" to generate mutual understanding and international co-operation in regards to the use of the seas. Cues is not legally binding but its role is clear: to reduce tension that results from maritime conflicts arising out of overlapping interests of member nations. It doesn't apply specifically to particular nations or particular areas. Its timing, however, is crucially relevant to one particular body of water in the Indo-Pacific: the South China Sea.