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[Media Comments] Asean-GCC economic axis: the Global South’s answer to US volatility?
Quoted in a piece by Tom Hussain on the growing momentum of free trade and investment deals between ASEAN member states and the Gulf Arab countries. Full article below. Asean-GCC economic axis: the Global South’s answer to US volatility? The two blocs’ emerging alliance looks to leverage each other’s strengths to buffer both regions from…
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Snap Insight: Iranian response in Qatar was specifically targeted at Washington – ‘We are done’
Completing this piece in Saudi Arabia, not far off from Qatar where the Iranian response was targeted, I write that the symbolic missile attack on Al Udeid base hosted by the Gulf Arab state was an indication that a weary Iran is signaling for respite. A lasting truce, however, will depend on two questions. READ…
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Why Trump’s Coercive Diplomacy Should Now Focus on ‘Diplomacy’
I write for the Middle East Institute-NUS on how US President Trump’s coercive diplomacy towards Iran should now focus on diplomatic efforts, following the exchange of blows between Tehran and Tel Aviv, which came to a head with US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Regime change, as the president threatened, will not be helpful as…
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