Publications: Africa

April 15, 2025

Trump’s Grand Strategy to Reshape the World: Would it Succeed?

Research Essay of 14 April 2025 on Rome-based World Geostrategic Insights (WGI). Also published in French, Spanish, and Russian.

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April 11, 2025

How to read the tealeaves over Trump’s ‘mad’ tariff war on the world

Op-ed in the China Daily of 10 April 2025

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April 05, 2025

China's 5% Growth Goal - is it reachable?

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(Feature article in The Global Analyst of April 2025. The publication is a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board)

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March 18, 2025

Hutchison’s port deal is much more than a pure business decision

Op-ed in the China Daily of 17 March 2025.

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March 13, 2025

Ten Reasons Why 2024 Marks an Inflexion Point Upending the Global Order - Journal on Political Sciences & International Relations

Research paper (7,353 words excluding the Title and 36 hyperlinked footnotes) published on 5 March 2025 in the Journal on Political Sciences & International Relations (Department of Law, Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) Italy ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8882-7648))

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February 04, 2025

How Trump is creating a more peaceful and cooperative multipolar world

Op-ed in the South China Morning Post (SCMP) of 4 February 2025.

My original title for this piece was "The curious case of Trumpian iconoclasm precipitating a more peaceful and multipolar era". The title was changed by the Newspaper in their wisdom.

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January 29, 2025

Ten Reasons Why 2024 Marks an Inflexion Point Upending the Global Order - World Geostrategic Insights

Research Essay dated 28 January 2025 in in Rome-based World Geostrategic Insights (WGI).
Republished in Chinese - 2024年为全球秩序转折点的十个原因 , French, Spanish, Russia, and Arabic.

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January 21, 2025

How Eurasian Integration of China’s Belt and Road Initiative Defends a Multipolar World Order

Published as Chapter 5 in Trends and Transformations in World Politics (Edited by Özgür Tüfekçi and Rahman Dağ), Lexington Books, London and New York, 2022 Download Trends and Transformations in World Politics-Lexington Books (2022)

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November 22, 2024

Broader Total Quality Lessons for China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

A joint research paper with Prof. Sam Ho, ex-Research Fellow, Cambridge University and proprietary owner of the 5-S Total Quality Management methodology, published by IAEME Publication on 22 November 2024.

Download BROADER TOTAL QUALITY LESSONS FOR CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE (BRI) - Published Paper 22 November 2024
Download Certificate of Publication 22 November 2024

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