Pearls [China’s String of]
China now owns/controls many ports along the Belt and [maritime] Road. Gwadar, in Pakistan; Piraeus, in Greece and in 2018,…
Mobile Pay
Mobile Pay – paying for goods and services by phone – is just one of the many ways that China…
Guns and Butter?
China has two overarching and interrelated imperatives. Provide improving economic and personal opportunities for its citizens, and reestablish its historic…
China’s Perspective
China remembers its former greatness. Magnificent civil engineering projects: the Dujiangyan Water Project still functioning after 2400 years; the Great…
Chinese Credit
The Chinese banking system has long been afflicted by massive lending to State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), organizations whose purposes did…
Made in China 2025
The formalized industrialization component of the grand ambition, now well under way: including the Belt and Road initiative, the String…
South China Sea
The United States Energy Information Administration has estimated that 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of…
Certainty
Bewildered, bemused, besotted, be outraged. How to explain and understand Populism, Tribalism, Brexit, Trump, Victimization, Political Correctness, Cultural Appropriation, unwillingness…
IF . . . Hypothesis Updated
If the hypothesis proposed last June [https://gapthinking.ca/an-hypothesis/] remains tenable, and I think it does, interesting questions result. The observed change…
Greenblatt on Politics in Shakespeare
Context stimulates creative endeavour. When Shakespeare was writing, Queen Elizabeth was aging, frail and without a successor; Spain continued to…
Scheidel Compresses Inequality
Scheidel, Walter. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stome Age to the Twenty-First Century. 2017.…
Pearls [China’s String of]
China now owns/controls many ports along the Belt and [maritime] Road. Gwadar, in Pakistan; Piraeus, in Greece and in 2018,…
Mobile Pay
Mobile Pay – paying for goods and services by phone – is just one of the many ways that China…
An Hypothesis
“Animal Spirits” ran out of gas in January, 2018. From Investopedia: “Animal Spirits is a term used by the famous…
Guns and Butter?
China has two overarching and interrelated imperatives. Provide improving economic and personal opportunities for its citizens, and reestablish its historic…
Kissinger on AI
Henry Kissinger, eminent historian, philosopher and statesman, has joined the crowded debate over the long term threat to humanity posed…
Governing Investments
An Oxymoron: Governments make investments for their citizens. Investment decisions by committee are a direct route to impoverishment. Exponential wealth…