On November 18, 2020, Ong Keng Yong, one of Singapore’s four Ambassadors-at-Large and former Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), sat down with GJIA to…
COVID-19 has unleashed geopolitical forces working to reposition supply chains within Asia. The Resilient Supply Chain Initiative between Japan, Australia, and India is spearheading the effort by incentivizing relocation. Several…
The Trump administration has left the Biden administration a number of difficult trade policy issues to deal with, but the biggest challenge is likely to be China. The…
Central America is a region in the Americas with potential for higher economic growth. For the regional economy to grow in a sustainable manner in the years ahead,…
On November 23, 2020, Ambassador Frank Lavin sat down with GJIA to discuss prospects under a new presidency for ending the three-year old trade war. The…
The countries in Indo-Pacific are currently caught in an intensifying competition for regional influence between China and the United States. But it is impossible for them to choose…
Islamic Finance has mainly replicated conventional finance methods inefficiently. It has thrived during periods of high oil prices, which allowed recycled petrodollars to implicitly subsidize its inefficient modes. As petrodollar…
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh has brought into focus both the striking power differential between Euro-American retailers and national suppliers and the damaging effects of this asymmetry.
While the implications of COVD-19 continue to dominate Brazil’s political and economic landscape, the Brazilian defense industry remains a prominent topic in its relationship with the United States…
