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…
“Even As . . .”
A rare uplifting vision of US civil society! Even as the national discourse has become so toxic, Fallows and his…
BlockChain for Shipping
Great potential, astonishing challenges! “Globalisation has brought the most advanced trading networks the world has seen, with the biggest, fastest…
Potable Seawater?
Using GRAPHENE-oxide membrane as a filtration technique has a certain limitation: if immersed in water, the membrane becomes slightly swollen…
Made in China 2025
The formalized industrialization component of the grand ambition, now well under way: including the Belt and Road initiative, the String…
Additive Manufacturing
From Boston Consulting Group: “Additive manufacturing (AM), commonly known as 3D printing, is on the verge of being widely adopted…
Intelligence, Artificial
AI is increasingly ubiquitous, as are the reservations: data quality and integrity, trust, ethics, and the diminution of the role…
Capitalism Redefined
Before Capitalism morphed into “Financialism”, the stock market used to allocate investment to the most promising opportunities. Any wonder why…
where IS the swamp?
First thought: Is Paul Ryan departure the prelude to a major November draining of the real Washington swamp? Second thought: …
DLTs’ Challenges
Distributed Ledger Technologies [of which BlockChain is best known due to BitCoin frenzy] offer potential for huge disruption of existing…
Gene Editing
From May-June, 2018 Foreign Affairs How CRISPR Could Transform Global Development, by Bill Gates “Over the next decade, gene editing could…