10 July 2024 Preamble: For close to half a millennia what we have seen are the rise to power of a force that is Christian in its religious beliefs, that is fuelled by Capitalism, and that has established the concept of Market Economics and Free Trade. Fundamentally, it is founded on the notions of superiority […]
Tag: Asian Century
18 January 2024 There is at play what we call the forces of unintended consequences, those small probables and pieces that when set upon, provoke a domino effect creating a series of ever rising ripples that finally create a tsunami. We don’t quite know when it all started, we can hazard a few educated guesses […]
11 January 2024 The headlines are quite misleading, editorials are even more so. The narrative is now more clear on social media than in any other media, so much so that the virtual presence which is largely unverifiable has been weaponised by software giant India into what can be preliminarily dubbed as ‘troll diplomacy’. Indian […]
29 July 23 Warning: To treat this as fictional or factual, the risk is with the reader. Sometime this month, a centurion centenarian stepped into the arc lights, flanked by the most powerful men of the Middle Kingdom, marking perhaps a milestone once more, five decades later, after he was first conveyed as ‘baggage’ aboard […]