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China military purge exposes Xi's unease
News, John J Metzler, Published on 14/02/2026
» Strange and mysterious events are transpiring inside the walls of Beijing's Forbidden City. In the massive nearby government compound Zhongnanhai there's a clear unease as Communist Party Chief and military supremo Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, has shuffled the political cards in the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), by purging his two top generals.
Trump's Greenland logic rattles Europe, Nato
News, Sara Sjolin & Andrea Palasciano & Sanne Wass, Published on 08/01/2026
» Donald Trump's rationale for decapitating Venezuela's government is fuelling concerns among European officials that they could soon face an existential dilemma over Greenland.
The effects of unfinished momentum
News, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, Published on 08/11/2025
» Why do some nations surge confidently into the future while others advance only in half-steps, not declining but not accelerating either? In their influential book Why Nations Fail (first published in 2012), Daron Acemoglu -- now a Nobel Prize economist -- and James Robinson, both economists and political scientists at the University of Chicago, offer a helpful lens for understanding Thailand's development path without casting blame or provoking division.
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?
UN rights body picks again raises eyebrows
News, John J Metzler, Published on 16/10/2024
» The UN General Assembly held its annual elections for the Human Rights Council last week.
EU needs to focus on innovation
News, Philippe Aghion & Mathias Dewatripont & Jean Tirole, Published on 14/10/2024
» In the three decades after World War II, Western Europe caught up with the United States in terms of per capita GDP. But since the mid-1990s, this trend has reversed, with the US growing twice as fast as Europe.
After balloon saga, can China and US re-engage?
News, David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina, Published on 14/02/2023
» When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken this month called off his trip to Beijing, he chose his words carefully. China's launch of a spy balloon on a high-altitude journey over the United States was unacceptable and irresponsible, he said, but he was postponing -- not cancelling -- his visit.
Marshall Islands couple extradited in bribery case
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 03/09/2022
» A business couple from the Marshall Islands who fled to Thailand in 2020 have now been extradited to the United States, where they are wanted on charges of bribing a foreign lawmaker and money laundering.
Do not mistake ritual for repentance
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 31/01/2022
» Can religious rituals cleanse us of our sins?
Artist censure a disgrace
News, Editorial, Published on 24/08/2021
» The title of National Artist -- an honour the government bestows upon individuals in creative arts -- is usually associated with positive media coverage each February when the national cultural committee announces the names of the year's latest batch of recipients in each discipline.