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 […]
Category: Opinion
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 […]
This is no longer a border dispute, this is Thai nationalism
What began as a minor border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia has escalated into something far more dangerous. The rhetoric out of Bangkok has shifted […]
ASEAN reaction to Cambodia invasion shows it has no teeth
The Cambodian-Thai border crisis has exposed a stark truth about the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: despite decades of diplomatic posturing, grand summits, and declarations […]
2025 SEA Games in Thailand marked by failure
The 33rd Southeast Asian Games in Thailand were supposed to be a celebration of sport, regional unity, and ASEAN cooperation. Instead, the event descended into […]
From Ukraine to Thailand and South Ossetia -how the Kosovo precedent still reverberates
The Kosovo precedent of 2008 continues to shape international behavior in ways most Western policymakers refuse to admit. When NATO recognized Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of […]