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India’s Population: Becoming Number One

August 10, 2017
India is poised to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2024. Poverty is linked to fertility rates, and individual and government attention to population trends contributes to sustainable development. Both China and India have reduced fertility rates and poverty since 1950, when...

Digital Memorialization for a Global Age

June 25, 2020
The state once controlled narratives of memorialization, often confined to specific geographic spaces in museums or archives. The world has more technologies than ever before for gathering and conveying evidence of mass atrocities – from the internet and social media to holograms, artificial...

Future of Globalization: Foreign Policy

July 7, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed society’s dependence on globalization and the challenges. Trade went from predictable to uncertain as nations blocked and confiscated protective medical gear and other needed supplies. Leaders worry about similar disruptions for food or other necessary products. “But...

Who Lost Hong Kong on June 30? Japan Times

July 6, 2020
Impatient after a year of massive protests, China enacted a national security law for Hong Kong on June 30 with vigorous enforcement. “That was the day when the long-eroding fiction of ‘One country, two systems’ finally disappeared in Hong Kong,” writes Kuni Miyake for the Japan Times. While...

TikTok Pulls Out of Hong Kong: TechCrunch

July 7, 2020
TikTok is the world’s most popular short video app, but politicians around the world express “concerns that it could be used by the Beijing government as a surveillance and propaganda tool,” explains Rita Liao for TechCrunch. India has banned TikTok, along with more than 50 other Chinese apps, and...

Capitalism as Victim of Covid-19? Salon

June 18, 2020
The pandemic and climate change demonstrate that survival depends on the ability to learn while relying on best evidence. Political leaders who downplay or deny the consequences of Covid-19 and climate change – trying to protect economies for the short term, rejecting early warnings and refusing to...

Could Hong Kong Become Belfast?

October 1, 2019
Frustration and anger run high among protesters over broken promises on "one country, two systems" for Hong Kong. Journalist Mike Chinoy compares the protest movement in Hong Kong with the three decades of unrest in Northern Ireland. Chinoy is author of a biography on Kevin Boyle, a...

Appeasement Policy for China: Project Syndicate

July 2, 2020
India’s buffer with China is shrinking, and India’s leaders should have anticipated China’s incursions in the Ladakh region, suggests Brahma Chellaney for Project Syndicate. China opposed India’s designation of Ladakh as a new federal territory, and labeled its recent moves as defensive. “While...
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