Category: Op-eds
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Democratic Disillusionment and Splintered Spheres: Social Media’s Implications for Philippine Democracy
Widely condemned for his violent anti-drug crackdowns, former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte had once stood…
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The Politics of Evolution: Thus Spoke the Southeast Asian Federation
With the rise of China, war in Europe, and American isolationism, the pendulum of…
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Vietnam’s Success Story: Tourism and Policy
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is the third most visited country in Southeast Asia, welcoming…
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India’s Gamble with Digitalization
India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is one of the most ambitious technological undertakings in the…
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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…
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Climate Change Policies: The Need of the Hour
In the blistering summer of 2023, a farmer in northern India watched the last of…
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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…
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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…
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The Revival of Spirituality in Post-COVID China
Summer afternoons in Beijing can be monstrous: the heat, the air, and the traffic almost…
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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…
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