Andrew Sheng
The writer is a distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong and a member of the UNEP Advisory Council on Sustainable Finance.
The writer is a distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong and a member of the UNEP Advisory Council on Sustainable Finance.
The Great Tech story implies that the world will see a smaller group of winners who bigger clout than the rest.
In other words, the world is in disunion not just from wealth and income disparities, but through the widening digital and knowledge application gaps.
In an over-crowded planet, the system is inherently unstable when we attempt to resolve differences via conflict and war
The images and news coming out of Gaza are so horrific that I cannot think of anything hopeful or constructive that can come of this cataclysm.
The global financial system looks stable, because central banks have shifted more and more debt onto their books.
The profit model of business has ignored climate change for too long.
The global financial system is in a real bind.
Amidst what the UN chief dubs “an era of global boiling,” we stand at the abyss of a paradigm cataclysm, yet remain paralysed in our actions.
What is the alternative to Big Business or Big Government?
Rising uncertainties are making global compromise and cooperation more unlikely
Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, to some extent, has already crossed China’s red line.
After the 2008 global financial crisis, the world seemed ready to undertake meaningful reform of the international monetary system. But the promised structural changes never happened.
The Ukraine war is a tragedy of tragedies, catastrophic for the Ukrainian people, a disaster for the global economy and a real setback for
Moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world was always likely to be messy and risk-prone.
Race is staring us in the face. Confronting and dealing with it is highly emotional and disturbing, so much so that in polite company, it’s unspeakable. But we can’t avoid it, because racism has become global.
Life is extremely complicated and will only become more so.
What is Hong Kong’s pathway to 2047? Since HKSAR’s return to China in 1997 under the 50-year One Country, Two Systems principle, which is due to end in 2047, Hongkongers have emphasised Two Systems, neglecting the timeline to One Country.
As tensions over the Taiwan Strait mount, everyone needs to think about whether war is inevitable. Ukrainian revolutionary Leon Trotsky once said: “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” And if we slip into war by what World War I historian Barbara Tuchman called the March of Folly, can the Great Powers step back from mutual nuclear annihilation?