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Asian Markets Plunge as Trump's Tariffs Spark Global Trade Fears

Exclusive live TV interview on News X, India's fastest growing global Enlgish-language news TV cbannel claiming 100 million viewers. 

AUKUS alliance at risk: Will Trump abandon Australia and UK?

Live TV interview on 10 March 2025 with TRT World, a prominent global English language TV channel based in Ankara with studios in London and Washington D.C.

U.S. Russia possible thaw - impact on China

Live TV interview on 8 March 2025 with AnewZ, a global news and analysis channel broadcasting to over 110 countries, with headquarters in Baku and correspondents worldwide.

Preparing the next Hong Kong generation for Future Business Leadership in a New Global Economy

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A presentation to a group of Hong Kong parents on 24 February 2025. 

 

North Korea Demolishes Family Reunion Site

Live TV interview of 14 February 2025 on NewsX, India'\s fastest-growing English-language internatiopnal news networrk with over 100 million.

American "TikTok refugee" folk song on heart-warming exchanges

Threatened by America’s impending ban, later stayed by President Trump, millions of American ardent TikTok supporters have fled to China’s ubiquitous Xiaohongshu (known as RedNote), China's hugely popular "Instagram" until now populated virtually entirely by China's young generation.

This has prompted numerous person-to-person, heart-to-heart bilingual outpourings between young peoples across the cultural and ideological divide, with many a tear-jerking epiphany moment. A new America-composed folk song captures the spirit of the moment. Download American folk song on Xiaohongshu 

So far separated by anti-China rhetoric, the gulf  between China's youths and their Western counterparts with similar lifestyles and hobbies is poised to be breached  by a wave of migration to Xiaohongshu.  This should help usher in a new phase of more positive people-to-people exchanges, paving the way for better international relations. 

This adds impetus to a rising tide of people-to-people exchanges following China’s unilateral visa-free treatment to 38 European countries: namely, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Malaysia, Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Australia, Poland, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Republic of Korea, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Estonia, Latvia, Japan and Negara Brunei Darussalam.

Momentum is building up to reach President Xi’s target of bringing 50,000 young Americans to China over the next five years for study and exchange programmes by way of improving ties.   

2024 Chief Executive Policy Address: talent and youth affairs

Backchat on RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong) dated 21 October 2024. (My contribution starts midway into the audio clip.) 

Should Israel and the United States Attack Iran’s Nuclear Program Now?

A Foreign Policy podcast of 15 October Counterpoint (in partnership with the Doha Forum) features a heated debate between Matt Kroenig, vice president of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a professor of government at Georgetown University, and Barbara Slavin, a distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center and a lecturer in international affairs at George Washington University. 

On the hawkish side, the debate reflects deeply-embedded "American Exceptionalism", that the United States remains able and justified to take matters in its own hands to shape the world according to its own agenda. It also highlights an American tendency to shoot first and face consequences later. The disastrous "War on Terror" comes to mind. 

American hawkishness (which resonates outside this debate) ignores the reality that America's "unipolar" moment has already passed. Aside from China and Russia, more and more nations are now able to pull their weight to challenge American diktats in safeguarding their own national interests. Not least Iran and other Arab countries.

What is more important, as highlighted by Babara Slavin, pulling the U.S. trigger on Iran's nuclear installations now risks missing hidden nuclear assets in Iran's myriad underground facilities while provoking and galvanizing the Iranian nation for quickened moves to acquire nuclear weapon capabiliites. 

There is also the worse-case scenario of an uncontrollable escalation towards nuclear Armegedden, as frightfully portrayed in New York Times best-selling author Annie Jacobsen's well-researched and timley book Nuclear War: A Scenario (Dutton, New York, 26 March, 2024)

Ukraine Now Ready for Ceasefire! The Truth Finally EXPOSED!

Video clip dated 19 October of US-based Cyrus Janssen, a Mandarin-speaking "Sinophile", geopolitical analyst, investor, speaker, and social media influencer with over 1 million fans across his social media platforms. The podcast succinctly summarizes the dynamics leading to the Ukraine war, and why it is likely to end sooner than expected, regardless of Zelentsky's theartrics. 

Hong Kong plays key role in national development

Exclusive interview on RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong) aired on 30 September 2024.