Publications

Admiral Zheng He may have explored the New World way before Christopher Columbus

Admiral Zheng He's last daring global voyage (from 1431) was traced by Chinese historian and author Dr Sheng-Wei Wang. Meticulously studying ancient Chinese texts, ocean current flows and various archaeological finds, she posits that the Admiral may have reached Cape Breton Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, before making his way on small river boats to what is now the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in the central Mississippi Valley.

If so, the Admiral would have discovered the New World some six decades ahead of Christopher Columbus (1492). 

Dr. Wang's findings are laid out in her fascinating scholarly work "The Last Journey of the San Bao Eunuch Admiral Zheng He".  She invited me for a Book Review, which is appended below. 

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Would a US-led Carbon Tax, instead of partnership, spur China's progress under the Paris Agreement?

Op-ed dated 18 April, 2021 in World Geostrategic Insights, an international non-profit geostrategic platform based in Rome. 

How Will We (U.S.) Win the Second Cold War?

A riposte published on 17 April, 2021 in World Strategic Insights, an international non-profit geostrategic platform based in Rome. 

What China's Low Growth Means for the World - China's game-changing Five Year Plan (2021-25)

The above is my feature article in The Global Analyst of April, 2021, a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board. The subtitle is more to the point of what this piece is about:

"What’s behind China’s Five-Year Plan (2021-25) as GDP growth slows? In a world turned upside down by the pandemic with Great Power rivalries, the 14th Five-Year Plan is a bold blueprint of how Beijing is getting prepared to realize her long-cherished China Dream of national renaissance, against all odds."

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