Predictions of a financial collapse in China have become routine, arriving with eerie regularity. Volatile stock markets, an overheated property sector, and a debt pile […]
Author: Felix Abt
Felix Abt is a Swiss entrepreneur residing in Asia, who has lived in nine countries, including North Korea and Vietnam, and roamed many more on all continents, and who has never had any desire to lecture or even liberate other people. Fortunately, he has also never been arrested to this day.
His unconventional life experience has given him a somewhat unconventional view of things, which the conventional mainstream censors, but which he is happy to share on independent media portals. He holds the credo that one must praise where others criticize, and criticize where others praise. His Amazon author profile can be found here.
The Quiet Rise of a New Global Payments System
Last week, one of the most important geopolitical shifts of 2025 unfolded with almost no Western media attention: the BRICS bloc—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and […]
Copper, Power, Peril: Mongolia On The Global Chessboard
It was supposed to be a groundbreaking achievement of modern technology. Instead, it has become a geopolitical battleground, caught between a global mining giant and […]
Flicking Bones on the Steppe: Mongolia’s Ancient Game of Strategy
I have to tell you about the bone-flicking game I’ll never forget. It’s called Shagai Shüürekh, and the goal is deceptively simple: catapult a tiny […]
Tariff Payouts: Spectacle Over Strategy
When a government imposes sweeping tariffs and then proposes cash “dividends” from those tariffs, what looks like a populist windfall can hide serious structural hazards. […]
Nigeria’s Hidden War: Ethnic, Religious, or Resource-Driven?
From Insurgency to Systemic Violence In the West, politicians, activists, and media outlets often describe the violence in northern and central Nigeria as a genocide […]
Stopping the Murderous Khmer Rouge: How Vietnam Confronted Asia’s Forgotten Holocaust
In Cambodia, beauty and intellect became crimes: the beautiful were forced to marry the ugly, the educated to wed the illiterate. Cities, hospitals, and schools […]
Vietnam’s Government in Transformation: Simplifying Bureaucracy and Empowering Citizens
The changes span provinces, districts, and communes, aiming to improve efficiency, streamline administration, and make governance more accessible to the people. This overview explores what […]