In Cambodia, beauty and intellect became crimes: the beautiful were forced to marry the ugly, the educated to wed the illiterate. Cities, hospitals, and schools […]
Author: Felix Abt
Vietnam’s Government in Transformation: Simplifying Bureaucracy and Empowering Citizens
The changes span provinces, districts, and communes, aiming to improve efficiency, streamline administration, and make governance more accessible to the people. This overview explores what […]
The Pattern That Ends Empires: How Money Dies Before Nations Fall
To say this is the only cause would be an oversimplification. Empires rarely fall for one reason alone. Political corruption, social decay, foreign wars, and natural disasters […]
When Your “Free” Speech Costs You Your Bank Account
Censorship is no longer confined to the digital realm. Social media platforms can block content — but banks can do the same, quietly and invisibly. […]
Hawkish and Risky: Takaichi’s Course, the U.S., and Japan’s Future
From the Peace Constitution to Aggressive Rearmament Japan’s postwar constitution of 1947 – the so-called Peace Constitution – states in Article 9: “Land, sea, and […]
The Deal That Never Was: Washington Proposed, Moscow Agreed – and Trump Blocked It
The Deal That Never Was reveals how Trump’s transactional diplomacy – from Seoul to Anchorage – turned a tangible opportunity for peace into yet another missed […]
Rethinking China: Neither Communism nor Capitalism – a Meritocracy with Chinese Characteristics
Almost everything you read about China in Western media turns out to be false on closer inspection: No, there is no “social credit system.” And […]
The Great American Bluff
Boom for the Few According to Forbes¹, Elon Musk is now considered the first person with a net worth of $500 billion. While Musk and the super-rich […]
Europe’s Self-Destruction: Chip factory gone, industries weakened, investors deterred.
Europe’s Economic Self-Sabotage: The Nexperia Heist and Its Fallout What just happened in the Netherlands should alarm anyone who still believes Europe is a safe, […]
Debunking the Myth of China’s “Social Credit” Dystopia
Forget the Orwellian nightmare you’ve heard about — China doesn’t assign citizens “social credit scores” to monitor or control their every move. What actually exists […]