Opinion

Monday 22/August/2016 17:28 PM

The foundations of Pacific stability

This month, I completed a two-week, six-stop tour of the Pacific, beginning with a visit to the United States Army’s 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii. It...

Monday 22/August/2016 17:18 PM

Counting Africa’s invisible workers

The billions of dollars in aid delivered to Africa annually may do the continent much good, but it cannot deliver a solution to poverty. Only creating more...

Monday 22/August/2016 17:07 PM

Why no one trusts China's markets

When China's top securities regulator said recently that it plans to delist Dandong Xintai Electric Co. for falsifying initial public offering...

Sunday 21/August/2016 17:59 PM

The silver lining in China's gold drought

After Monday's closing ceremonies, critics will have plenty of time to dissect all that went wrong with this year's Games in Rio -- from pool water...

Sunday 21/August/2016 17:45 PM

Trump’s fiscal follies

This year’s presidential election campaign in the United States is certainly unique. Donald Trump has shaken up the way a campaign is run, how a nominee...

Sunday 21/August/2016 17:35 PM

The Brexit question that nobody asked

Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, has written the best article I've read on Britain's exit from the European Union. In an essay...

Sunday 21/August/2016 17:16 PM

Taming the populists

In many Western democracies, right-wing populists, energised by self-proclaimed victories over “establishment elites,” are doubling down on the claim...