Andrew Sheng

Amidst what the UN chief dubs “an era of global boiling,” we stand at the abyss of a paradigm cataclysm, yet remain paralysed in our actions. 

Ukraine is a moral tragedy, whereby no one wants to take tough decisions for peace, preferring to wage war in which hundreds of thousands have died, millions have migrated and the unspoken outcome is nuclear. 

The world today is caught in a confidence trap.

The answer is the soil on which we live, the primary producer of our food and water.

Financial markets do not seem to factor long-term climate change issues into short-term price considerations

The outcome of the US-China rivalry hinges on the technology edge

The global economy and planetary system are hugely imbalanced because of climate warming and widening social inequities.

With the world likely to head towards a recession, what is the future of the dollar and monetary policy?

There is no endgame in war, only wealth and health destruction.

The West is in a Metaverse of its own imaginative creation, whereas the seven billion Rest is trying to figure out realistically how to survive the existing liberal order.   

The West has now pushed Russia, the largest country by geographical size, to provide food, energy and fertilisers to the Rest.

Deep social change often come from people, social movements and civil society organisations, rarely from top down.

Kishan Rana’s book: “Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal” (Routledge, 2022) is an important contribution to an emerging global history different from just Euro-centric narratives. Superbly researched, Kishan connected the dots to find that Churchill’s record on India reflected part of his own limited experience with Indians, formed through his leadership of Indian Muslim troops as part of his early career, and his grand, but often self-serving, view of world affairs from imperial London.

The latest World Inequality Report shows tackling climate change and social injustice are part of a total political package.

What is the alternative to Big Business or Big Government?

Rising uncertainties are making global compromise and cooperation more unlikely

Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, to some extent, has already crossed China’s red line.

After the 2008 global financial crisis, the world seemed ready to undertake meaningful reform of the international monetary system. But the promised structural changes never happened.

The Ukraine war is a tragedy of tragedies, catastrophic for the Ukrainian people, a disaster for the global economy and a real setback for

Moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world was always likely to be messy and risk-prone.