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Thailand needs a geostrategic rebalance
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 06/06/2025
» With two military coups and multiple judicial interventions that combined to subvert election results and weaken democratic institutions over the past two decades, it is unsurprising that Thailand's geostrategic position has leaned increasingly towards China. Naturally, the more Thailand becomes autocratic, the more it will be estranged from established democracies in Europe and North America, as well as Japan and South Korea, with nowhere to turn but to Beijing. But this China orientation is a geostrategic mistake at this time. Thailand should correct its course until clearer signs emerge as to which side of the superpower struggle will come out on top.
Is AI a curse or a blessing for education?
Oped, Matthew Robert Ferguson, Published on 17/08/2024
» My collegiate rowing coach at the University of Western Ontario was an eccentric West German named Dr Volker Nolte, a stocky and imposing figure who was only funny when he didn't mean to be. He was a biomechanics wizard, obsessing over the countervailing forces of the rower and shell, currents and winds, blades and water. In the early 80s, as part of his doctoral research, he designed a sliding rigger that moved along the hull of the boat on slides in tandem with the rower, which, when compared to a fixed rigger, effectively doubled the force and propulsion of every stroke. It made second-tier rowers competitive with the best in the world.
UN assembly opens amid widening crises
Oped, John J. Metzler, Published on 13/09/2023
» Presidents, prime ministers, kings and potentates are converging on New York for the opening session of the UN General Assembly. The 78th annual assembly of the world organisation presents both a global gala and expanded summit meeting to try to solve a myriad of crises facing the international community.
Buddhism Lost
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/06/2018
» I was appalled with the execution of a convict (BP, June 18). I don’t defend in any way what he did and if he murdered my child I would want to kill him. But that is the human instinct. When the state coldly determines someone’s death it is entirely different.