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Shape of new climate politics emerges
News, Sam Geall, Published on 07/06/2025
» Only a few months ago, a headline like "United States sets tariffs of up to 3,521% on solar panels from Southeast Asia" could have been dismissed as satire. Today, it's nothing special, one of many published amid an uninterrupted fusillade accompanying Donald Trump's first 100 days in power. Yet it's also part of something bigger, as axes of economic power shift, technological changes surge, and popular sentiments reconfigure and metastasise. Amid that fracturing world order, how should we consider the climate crisis?
The UK's most working-class government
Oped, Aaron Reeves & Sam Friedman, Published on 09/07/2024
» The United Kingdom has a new Labour government whose class composition are radically different from previous ones. According to our analysis of Labour's shadow cabinet, some 46% of Keir Starmer's cabinet members were raised by parents with "working class" occupations. That figure is well above average in terms of the broader working population, and it stands in stark contrast to the 7% who were of working-class origin in the last Conservative cabinet.
I hoped to vote for a united Taiwan
Oped, Sam Chang, Published on 13/01/2024
» I'm 72 years old, but recently I made a rookie mistake. I believed that Taiwanese politicians, when they signed an agreement, would honour that agreement and seek unity.
Does the latest Gallup poll tell all?
Oped, Sam Rainsy, Published on 15/12/2023
» A survey of opinion in Cambodia published by Gallup in August shows the impossibility of trying to gauge the views of the public under a dictatorship determined to stamp out any trace of dissent.
Taiwan's rollercoaster ride of democracy
Oped, SAM CHANG, Published on 18/03/2023
» Democracy in Taiwan can feel like a rollercoaster ride. It goes up and it goes down, at the same time.
Is Australia next to lose its grip on democracy?
News, Sam Roggeveen, Published on 17/05/2019
» As Australia prepares for federal elections tomorrow, it probably looks to outsiders like an oasis of stability and sanity among Western democracies that have gone haywire. There are no widespread populist revolts, no "yellow vests" or agitators calling for a Brexit-style retreat from the Asia-Pacific. Though Australia does have far-right fringe parties, they have not had anything like the electoral success of their European counterparts. In fact, among countries with more than 10 million people, Australia has one of the highest migration rates of any major economy, yet there is hardly any public backlash.
Finding the way after sham election
News, Sam Rainsy, Published on 22/08/2018
» Hun Sen's bogus election held on July 29 throws down the gauntlet to the international community to prove that democracy is possible in Cambodia.
Malaysia rethinks on China projects
News, SAM REEVES, AFP, Published on 18/06/2018
» Malaysia was once a loyal partner in China's globe-spanning infrastructure drive but a new government is now pledging to review Beijing-backed projects, threatening key links in the much-vaunted initiative.