This is a well-worn playbook that is becoming easier to read—and increasingly less effective. According to a study by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute , China has used “coercive diplomacy” more than 150 times against foreign governments and firms since 2010. Observers often tend to exaggerate the impact of these […]
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Bangladesh Is Clothes-Minded
But this success story derived from exports comes from an extreme concentration in garment manufacturing: The share of garments in Bangladesh’s total exports increased from 75 percent in 2000 to more than 86 percent in 2019. For a single product to dominate exports is rare in history; we could call […]
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New Bond Can’t Take On Beijing’s Supervillains
Hollywood’s China troubles are well known. Only a few U.S. movies get released each year in the world’s largest film market. Negative portrayals of China risk bans, not just for individual films but entire studios. Plot lines involving China’s government, let alone Chinese spymasters, are thus off limits. 2001’s Spy […]
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Biden Is Flagging on Kleptocracy
Without leadership from the White House, the summit has turned into another nongovernmental organization engagement merry-go-round useful to neither the administration nor anti-corruption activists. The lackluster engagement with the United Nations General Assembly special session on corruption has been a taste of things to come. The first disappointment is the […]
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Singapore appreciated India’s move to strengthen trade
New Delhi, India: Speaking at the INDO-ASEAN business summit, Singapore Foreign Minister Balakrishnan stated that he is encouraged by the recent moves that strengthened the two-way trade and investment. “…Removal of the retrospective taxation and the national monetization pipeline that aims to tap sector private investment for new infrastructure.” “We […]