On May 10, 1969, Malaysia’s then-ruling coalition – led primarily by UMNO (the United Malays National Organisation) – failed to attain a two-thirds parliamentary majority for the very first time …

As the government paralysis of the United States enters its second month, headlines have shifted their focus away from its continuing trade and diplomatic tussles with its neighbour on the …

Sitting outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, a statue of a young Korean girl stares impassively into the distance. It is a statue that embodies the strained diplomatic ties between …

Mahathir Mohamad, at the ripe old age of ninety-three, is once again Prime Minister of Malaysia. This time, he governs while chairman of the Pakatan Harapan coalition’s second smallest component …

There are nascent signs of thawing relations amidst the protracted US-China trade war. With US President Donald Trump’s recent offer for a ‘meeting plus dinner’ with his Chinese counterpart Xi …

Discussions concerning current affairs in the USA are often marked by lurches in one way or another: coverage can stem from a tweet to judicial indictments to a school shooting …

In his essay Politics and the English Language, George Orwell diagnosed the problem of Modern English as the following: “It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the …

With nearly 900 million monthly users, China’s powerhouse super app – WeChat (微信)– has access to an unprecedented amount of social, financial, political, and personal data. Since its government-backed conception in …

For most of the past two millennia, China was the world’s dominant economic power. The ancient Silk Road carried oriental goods from the thriving Chinese empire into the Indian subcontinent, …

When it came to negotiating with the Iranian regime about its nuclear adventures, China had the most leverage. That is, economically China was the only country still willing to develop …