Joseph S.

Joseph graduated with a degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and is a CFA and CAIA charterholder. He enjoys geopolitics and study international politics extensively. Joseph currently lives in Hong Kong.

Has Xi Diverted from Deng’s Direction?

The escalation of the Sino-US trade war brought up a debate of whether President Xi Jinping had diverted from Deng Xiaoping’s direction. Deng’s direction...

Pence’s Powerful Speech Brings Out the Chinese Nationalists

The trade war initiated by the United States has caused panic to the Trump Administration in the run-up to the midterm election. When President...

A Case of Pot Calling the Kettle Black?

Republican Senators Cory Gardner and Marco Rubio, and Democrats Ed Markey and Bob Menendez had introduced a legislation to discourage Taiwan’s few remaining allies...

Make Our Planet Great Again – Another Made-in-China?

August 28, French environment minister Nicolas Hulot, an environmentalist and former TV personality, announced his resignation during a breakfast show on France Inter radio,...

Sun Tzu’s Art of War is What Trump Needs

Since my last article on the trade war in April, many have asked whether America or China would win the war. I have no...

The Geopolitics Behind the Tiananmen Square Incident

The year was 1989. Hu Yaobang, the former chairman and General Secretary of the People's Republic of China, passed away suddenly after suffering from...

The 1992 Consensus is the only Way Forward for Tsai’s Taiwan

Burkina Faso announced on the 24th May 2018, that it would drop diplomatic ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan) and become the latest...

Make China Weak Again

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are planning a trip to Beijing for trade discussions. This apparent “truce” came after...

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