A Kenyan court fight over irregular borrowing is testing the wisdom of a 1927 doctrine on odious debt.
Fear of climate change–not climate change–was a killer in the Nepal floods
The real tragedy of Nepal’s flood was climate-driven dams—and the workers they put in the mountain’s path.
How China buried Tibet flood images after Nepal disaster
Censors erased viral footage while Chinese state media flooded platforms with official content.
If this is a natural disaster, what is there to hide?
Same flood, two stories: Nepal counted the dead; China hid the footage of its national gate vanishing.
What actually caused the Nepal disaster
The lives lost turned on who stood in the gorge and whether anyone warned them—not on a climate verdict: Roger Pielke Jr.
Hu Ping: The legacy of Zhu Rongji
How the Party turned public factories into cadre fortunes—and called it a miracle.
Hong Kong shows how a free society can become a dictatorship
Liberty does not die in a coup; it dies when the courts, press, and civic groups that once protected it are rewritten into instruments of “national security.”
China is fuelling Canada’s fentanyl crisis
Is it hybrid warfare?
Wildfires can’t wait on climate-change policy
Leaders keep shelving the work of forest management. Why bother when you can just point at the sky, set a 2050 net-zero target, and look like a moral hero without lifting a […]
Beijing’s quiet offensive in America’s Pacific backyard
The unresolved questions after a reformist governor’s sudden death.
North American LNG won’t displace Asia’s coal
Why 190 million tonnes per annum of export capacity still can’t crack China and India’s sovereign energy systems.
Beijing’s Excalibur: Coal as China’s weapon of sovereign power
At the exact moment Western economies rush to eliminate coal, China is deliberately scaling output by 25%, embedding it deeper into power, steel, chemicals, and national resilience.
Lenders, beware — a Kenyan court case may invalidate ‘odious debts’
Loans made outside normal parliamentary channels and held offshore may soon find themselves less likely to be repaid.
Hong Kong independent bookstores under siege
Another bookstore raid on sedition charges underscores the city’s shrinking space for free inquiry and public discussion.
Guangxi floods raise alarm over structural failures in aging reservoirs
Heavy rains from Typhoon Maysak have ignited intense scrutiny over the safety and maintenance of the area’s aging infrastructure built during the Great Leap Forward era.
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