Economic success has made Singapore a strategic player in Southeast Asia, as it navigates between the United States and rising powers China and India. But as the city-state grows more prosperous, it becomes more vulnerable to terror.
The United States is focused on fighting extremism, but ordinary Pakistanis are worried about the economy. Why emerging markets are key to the war on terror.
When South Africans threw off the oppression of the apartheid system, the future seemed bright. But thanks to years of government incompetence, political and economic success is far from assured.
The public focus in the West has been on Russia’s electoral politics and Vladimir Putin’s possible successors. But emerging consumer markets there represent another “new Russia” that the media is largely ignoring.
Is Hong Kong’s importance as a financial center fading, or is the city just moving toward a new role? Merging with Shenzhen could make it a part of a financial mega-exchange that would dominate the Asian market.