Publications

John Lee's Middle East trip rife with potential

Op-ed in the China Daily of 10 February 2023. Republished with attribution by Rome-based World Geostrategic Insights in French, Spanish, and Russian.

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. 

Download The Last Journey of the San Bao Eunuch Admiral Zheng He

Download Book Review at request of Author of The Last Journey of The San Bao Eunuch Admiral Zheng He by Dr Sheng 

How China’s digital currency will thwart US dollar trap and help the world

Op-ed in the South China Morning Post of 28 December, 2020. The fuller original article with 21 linked notes can be accessed here.

How Eurasian Integration of China's Belt & Road Initiative defends a Multipolar World Order

A presentation to the 7th International Conference on Eurasian Politics & Society (IEPAS 2020) held in Lisbon, Portugal, 23-25 September, 2020 (Changed to Zoom format due to Covid-19)

Download How Eurasian Integration of China's Belt and Road defends a multipolar world order (Full-length research paper) 

Download How Eurasian Integration of China's Belt & Road Initiative defends a Multipolar World Order (PDF PowerPoint) (2) (PDF PowerPoint presentation)

Conference Program and Abstract Book (My presentation panel (p.14), List of participants (p.20), Abstract of my paper (p.60))

Download Certificate of Paper Presentation

Ten Reasons Why the Coronavirus Crisis Will Spawn a Brave New World of Discord

Feature article in the June 2020 issue of The Global Analyst, a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board.

Download Global Analyst - Covid-19 could usher in a Brave New World

 

Book Review of "The Last Journey Of The San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He"

At the exclusive invitation of the author, Dr Sheng-wei Wang, the following is my book Review (in both English and Chinese).

Download Amended Chinese Book Review of “The Last Journey of The San Bao Eunuch Admiral Zheng He”

Dr Wang's book : - 

A TV documentary series by CCTV 9 - 《历史的拐点·下西洋》 (History's Inflexion Points: The Treasure Voyages) Epistle 2 serves as an interesting introduction to Admiral Zheng He's historical exploits. 

Ten reasons why the Coronavirus crisis spawns a brave new world of discord

Article in World Geostrategic Insights dated 10 April, 2020

Covid-19 Crisis - Can China bounce back?

Feature Report in The Global Analyst, March, 2020, a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board.

Download NCovCrisis - Can China Bounce Back?

Wikistrat Report: The Impact of the Coronavirus on China's Stability

The above Report dated 13 February, 2020 contains my two contributions entitled (a) President Xi is leaving nothing to chance and (b) China has learned a bitter lesson about the need for early transpareency and rapid action.

China's game-changing developments to watch in the coming decade

Article in World Geostrategic Insights on 15 January, 2019