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New tech disrupts global order
Oped, Mark Blyth & Daniel Driscoll, Published on 18/11/2025
» News media tend to focus on the world's major powers because they command more resources by dint of their relatively larger economies, militaries and energy endowments. But there are costs to such dominance. For example, a single American Gerald R Ford-class aircraft carrier costs $13 billion (421.6 billion baht), while the F-35 fighter jet costs about $100 million. So, if you can build your military equipment for less than your opponent, you can gain a strategic advantage.
Tackling dengue threat together
News, Prasert Auewarakul & Vanessa Daniel, Published on 14/06/2025
» In the face of a changing climate, now is the time for Asean member states to develop a cure for dengue.
Western chip subsidies help China
News, Daniel Gros, Published on 11/01/2024
» If there is one certainty about the coming year, it is that geopolitical rivalries will persist. For the European Union, this will translate largely into an effort to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers, especially of critical goods. For the United States, the focus will be on maintaining military supremacy by denying potential adversaries -- namely, China -- access to relevant technologies. Both approaches overlap in an important area: the chips industry.
Energy transition confronts reality
Oped, Daniel Yergin, Published on 03/02/2023
» The "energy transition" from hydrocarbons to renewables and electrification is at the forefront of policy debates nowadays. But the last 18 months have shown this undertaking to be more challenging and complex than one would think just from studying the graphs that appear in many scenarios. Even in the United States and Europe, which have adopted massive initiatives to move things along, the development, deployment, and scaling up of the new technologies on which the transition ultimately depends will be determined only over time.
The next global resource crisis will be over minerals
Oped, Daniel Litvin, Published on 15/11/2022
» The West's dependence on China for so-called critical minerals once worried only a handful of experts and policy wonks. Now, the anxiety has gone mainstream, capturing headlines and becoming the subject of a BBC documentary series. But we have yet to answer adequately the most important question: What should we do about it?
Global glacial meltdown happening fast
Oped, Jorge Daniel Taillant, Published on 05/01/2022
» We've all heard the tragic stories of glaciers in peril: pieces of ice, the size of continents, breaking off of Antarctica or melting away in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, leaving polar bears starving and clutching onto remnants of crumbling sea ice.
Covid boosts case for quitting
News, Renaud Meyer & Dr Daniel Kertesz, Published on 31/05/2021
» During the Covid-19 pandemic, strengthening tobacco control laws makes even more sense for Thailand.
Response to coup requires look at China, military
Oped, Jonathan T Chow & Leif-Eric Easley, Published on 04/02/2021
» In the early hours of Feb 1, the day Myanmar's newly elected parliamentarians were to take their seats, the armed forces arrested senior members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), including State Counsellor and NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar President Win Myint. The military declared a state of emergency, announcing it will govern the country for one year, after which it promises fresh elections. Understanding this political crisis requires unpacking the role of the military in Myanmar's beleaguered democratisation, the calculus of Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, and a geopolitical context dominated by China.
How contact tracing exposed a Covid-19 hoax
News, Yvonne T Chua, Published on 14/01/2021
» The diet hoax -- that eating high-alkaline foods could beat Covid-19 -- should have died down by now. After all, science experts and fact checkers across the globe had been quick to bust it when it came out.
Life with Covid-19 -- a new norm
Oped, Daniel A Kertesz, Published on 24/04/2020
» The number of Covid-19 cases reported in Thailand seems to be levelling off. Even though most provinces in the kingdom have reported Covid-19 infections, we have not yet seen a sustained, steep rise in confirmed cases in this country. This contrasts sharply with many affected places in the world which continue to see exponential growth in case numbers.