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World leaders are destroying the rule of law
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/12/2025
» Russia's "big concession is they stop fighting, and they don't take any more land," US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, when asked what Russia was conceding in the thinly disguised surrender document he was trying to shove down Ukrainian throats. He truly is a 19th-century man at heart.
Should the US join China's WWII event?
Oped, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 21/07/2025
» The latest Victory Day parade in Moscow marking the 80th anniversary of Germany's independence defeat in May will be bookended in the upcoming September with a commemorative parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing marking the defeat of Japan.
Poor pay, rich save
Oped, Postbag, Published on 07/12/2024
» Re: "15% VAT plan has vexed", (BP, Dec 6) and "Pichai promotes rejig of tax rates", (Business, Dec 3).
Key portals to Global Digital Compact
Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 09/02/2024
» This year will witness the formulation and adoption of the UN-backed Global Digital Compact if all goes as planned. It will provide a policy framework for digital relations worldwide, although not yet equivalent to a binding treaty. What, then, are the stakes, the key portals to the digital future?
Why Paris financing pact failed
Oped, Jayati Ghosh, Sandrine Dixson-Declève & Johannah Bernstein, Published on 21/07/2023
» The recent Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact late last month was touted by its organisers, including French President Emmanuel Macron, as a groundbreaking initiative to forge a "new contract" between the Global North and South that would address climate change and foster sustainable development. The fact that most G20 leaders did not even bother to show up, however, casts doubt on the feasibility of the effort.
The United Nations mustn't be powerless
Oped, Takatoshi Ito, Published on 04/03/2023
» The first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been a good opportunity to reflect on the war's global implications. In addition to untold human misery, Russia's aggression triggered a historic food and energy crisis and caused global inflation to spike, endangering the world's fragile economic recovery from Covid-19. But the war also highlighted the shaky foundations of the international security order that emerged after the end of World War II, sending shockwaves around the world and encouraging countries like Germany and Japan to rearm.
Asean sticks to peace agenda in Ukraine
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 21/02/2023
» This week marks the first year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The biggest war in Europe since World War II will continue as nobody knows when, or if ever, Russia or Ukraine will be defeated. Certainly, the US and Europe, or rather Nato are confident that more military hardware support to Kyiv is the only way to bleed Russia dry. Recent rhetoric from the West at the Munich Security Conference last week has already raised the spectre of a long war, perhaps short of a nuclear war. Obviously, that has the potential to drag other European nations into the conflict, which is already a proxy war. Belarus has allowed Russia to use its territory to wedge war against Ukraine. Even if the war ends -- it is a big if -- the dire repercussions will continue for generations.
Xi Jinping's radioactive friend outstays welcome
Oped, Charles Tannock, Published on 06/10/2022
» Vladimir Putin's ongoing failure in Ukraine has put his strategic alliance with Chinese President Xi Jinping to the test. With Mr Putin growing ever more desperate, Mr Xi must finally realise the scale of the threat that his "friendship without limits" with the Russian president poses to China's economic health, to global stability, and to his own geopolitical ambitions.
Remembering Abe and Japan's rise
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 12/07/2022
» It is not an overstatement to say that the late prime minister Shinzo Abe single-handedly promoted Japan's regional and international profile through unconventional economic and security policies. Abe linked his country's economic policies with security and strategic twists in its relations with the rest of the world, Asean in particular.
Wilful ignorance
Oped, Postbag, Published on 31/03/2022
» Re: "A slap in the face of civility," (Editorial, March 30).