The Acorn

Ma’s victory and India’s dilemma Yesterday’s Asian Balance column in Business Standard. Taiwan’s presidential elections, since they first started in 1996, have in large part been referendums on the “One China” policy. Voters have been offered two deviations from the delicious ambiguity of the status quo: either a path towards eventual re-unification with mainland China ...

Geoeconomics is the key to the seas East of Singapore This was published in yesterday’s Business Standard. The Asian Balance turns one today. It had promised to “devote itself to chronicling and interpreting the unfolding geopolitics of East Asia. It will be an unabashed advocate of Looking East far beyond the Straits of Malacca”. If ...