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Asian equity markets were mixed on light volumes in advance of today’s US CPI print. Overnight was a Tale of Two Chinas: Onshore (Mainland/domestic investors)…

The world is changing, things are moving fast. The old world is already dead while a new world is only emerging. 87% of the world’s (...) [Voltaire Network]

Though forgotten in the pages of history, ‘Sardar’ K M Panikkar made a monumental effort to save the lives of thousands of refugees after Partition.

More than two decades after journalist Craig Addison coined the term “Silicon Shield,” the concept remains as relevant as ever, if not even more. The idea that global — including Chinese — reliance on Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has been a major deterrent of war between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is still frequently espoused today, especially as tensions continue to soar. On Monday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) chairman Mark Liu (劉德音) declared during in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would rende...

In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China’s political and economic evolution, Liu finds the opposite to be true. He challenges the persistence of Cold War formulations