05 April 2024 The 2024 elections in Taiwan exposed the emerging generational and socio-economic fault-lines in the country. There is growing demand for greater governmental accountability and more progressive economic reform to address the high-income trap leading to the unsustainable entitlements that accompany it. Solutions to these vexing challenges will need strong political will […]
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Whispering Thoughts – On This and That (No 3)
April 29, 2023 
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April 2023 ISRAEL: THE VANISHING BEACON ON THE HILL ‘Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralised by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honours the […]
Continue readingRUSSIA IN THE MIDDLE-EAST: ALTERING THE GEO-STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT
October 22, 2015 1 Comment
Canberra, 22 October 2015 In the second half of September, Russia moved military forces predominated by air assets, into Bassel al-Assad international airport in the Latakia province of Syria. This deployment made it impossible for the anti-Assad forces to capture the province and also provided a logistics lifeline to the military forces of the Syrian […]
Continue readingRUSSIA—EMERGING TO POWER
June 27, 2014 1 Comment
Canberra, 27 June 2014 There have been numerous analysis and opinion pieces written regarding the emergence of an assertive Russia—some that state that this rise of Russian power is bound to be short-lived and that the nation will once again lapse into economic and political strife and withdraw from the world stage, sooner rather than […]
Continue readingWhy the Obama administration will change the US foreign policy
January 17, 2009 0 Comments
Singapore, 16 January 2009In four days time, Mr Barak Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America. There is more hype regarding this event than in any other in recent history, for a number of really important reasons, none of which should be sidelined. However, there is also […]
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