Category: Op-eds
-
The Politics of Evolution: Thus Spoke the Southeast Asian Federation
With the rise of China, war in Europe, and American isolationism, the pendulum of…
-
Vietnam’s Success Story: Tourism and Policy
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is the third most visited country in Southeast Asia, welcoming…
-
India’s Gamble with Digitalization
India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is one of the most ambitious technological undertakings in the…
-
More Education but Less Jobs? Female Labor Force Participation and the Contradictions of the Indian Economy
We all know how the modernization story goes. A country, impoverished and underdeveloped, struggling to…
-
Climate Change Policies: The Need of the Hour
In the blistering summer of 2023, a farmer in northern India watched the last of…
-
An Insult to Growth: How the Overpopulation Myth Is Harming Southeast Asia and What to Do About It
In contrast to the historically accepted assumption, the population issue in Southeast Asia is not…
-
The Shifting Fortune: Prabowo’s Push for Indonesian Local Capitalist Class
The recent inauguration of Prabowo Subianto as Indonesia’s president has sparked both a wave of…
-
The Revival of Spirituality in Post-COVID China
Summer afternoons in Beijing can be monstrous: the heat, the air, and the traffic almost…
-
How to Witness a Chinese Monkey on Social Media– Love, Hate, or Neither?
A monkey has become my recent hyperfixation. Xing Xing (meaning star in Mandarin Chinese) is…
-
From Socialism to Stratification: The Unfinished Reform of China’s Hukou System
China’s hukou system was established in the 1950s to regulate population mobility and resource allocation…
