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[Media Comments] UAE ‘surpassing Hong Kong’, challenging Singapore for global trade crown
My comments for Tom Hussain’s report on SCMP. “Connectivity has been established as a major component of the UAE’s economic toolkit for several years now,” said Clemens Chay, a senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation Middle East think tank in Dubai, adding that deploying economic statecraft is both a “government priority and a guiding…
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Gaza Outlook Remains Dim, Despite Some Progress
In this latest piece for the Middle East Institute at NUS, I argue that Trump’s Board of Peace and the prospective transition into Phase II for Gaza’s reconstruction constitute a repackaged “Gaza Riviera” vision first introduced last March. At that time, the idea was heavily criticised, but it has now appeared in a different form.…
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A Stable Iran Serves Gulf Interests Better Than Chaos
American air and naval assets are moving rapidly into the Middle East, what President Trump describes as an “armada”towards Iran “just in case”. My latest piece for Observer Research Foundation Middle East argues that the immediate region would be better off with a calculable — and now weakened — Iran. Read HERE.
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