Uncertainty is a common term for describing the future. But the year of 2021 has given it a new meaning. The impact of the pandemic on humanity still lingers, effects of climate change continue to spread and intensify, and supply chain chaos is hitting global growth and is highly likely to get worse...
Read moreIn the November issue of TIO, we focus on the capacity of global governance to tackle the substantive issues that are facing the world. Not least among them, the issues of climate change, COVID-19, rising energy, commodity, and food prices, impacted supply chains, and the refugee and humanitarian cr...
Read moreChina, in the midst of global economic uncertainties caused by geopolitical competition and the Covid-19 pandemic, has embarked on sweeping changes to its society. The days when China defined domestic success in terms of GDP growth alone have been modified by social constructs which stress “common ...
Read moreThe September issue of TIO features six keynote addresses and twenty highlight quotes delivered by renowned scholars and experts from China and the world at the IR session of the 2021 Taihe Civilizations Forum. Examining China’s relations with the West from different perspectives, their remarks not...
Read moreFor all prevailing rhetoric, there is no denying that China and the United States are locked in an intense rivalry where the two compete on almost every front from trade and military to space exploration and technological superiority. The August issue of TI Observer scratches beneath the surface and...
Read moreThe July issue of TI Observer (TIO) delves deeper into the “Confusion Matrix in the Oceans” and highlight the strategic implications of “Asia-Pacific” and “Indo-Pacific” across the semantics and policy lexicon of international diplomacy. It tracks the origins of the phrase from Haushofer and a...
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