Category: Opinion

In case you missed it, the foreign minister of Singapore, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, has just completed a two day meeting in Pyongyang with North Korean […]

A financial analysis comparing Venezuela’s drastic cut in oil royalties to Libya’s ability to maintain contract value. How Libyan technocrats and the legacy of figures […]

Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 was launched as a sweeping attempt to fundamentally restructure the kingdom’s economy away from oil dependency. It was presented as a […]

While often described as the last truly Marxist state, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has in reality undergone a slow but very visible economic […]

The 24th Pyongyang Spring Trade Fair has concluded in Pyongyang. The event, the first to include large foreign delegations, took place between May 3rd–8th and […]

There was recently an article in the Wall Street Journal calling Cambodia “Scambodia” because of the scam call centers where people work in slave‑like conditions […]

Songkran 2026 once again exposed the gap between how Thailand markets its New Year festival and how it actually plays out across roads, cities, and […]

Cuba is not collapsing. It is being strangled. For over six decades, the United States has tried to suffocate the island in economic, political, and […]

Venezuela is being run from three places at once. One is in New York, where Nicolás Maduro sits in a U.S. detention center after being […]

For decades the world has been told that a multipolar era is emerging that China and Russia are rising to challenge American dominance. Analysts academics […]