This morning’s news blast featured two unique tidbits of information purposely positioned in succession. The first, that President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan announced that Chinese officials had dropped their objections to Taiwan’s participation as an observer at a United Nations body, a step forward in Taiwan’s effort to win greater international recognition. The second, that  Taiwan’s third-largest telecoms service provider, Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. [...]

There are many initiatives currently undertaken by the international community to ‘aid‘ Africa. Most are now scrutinized, and rightly so, for being a strategic investment in a relationship with a growing geo-political force. In the tough times of a global economic recession, efficiency and swiftness sometimes outrank long-term growth, and figurative seed-planting for the future [...]

Growth in infrastructure at a devastating pace will no doubt be met with malpractice. Areas of substantial profit aren’t covered as meticulously as overall strategic implementation of expansion and growth, especially from newly-acclaimed superpower, China. Although intellectual property rights (IPRs) have been acknowledged and protected in the People’s Republic of China since 1979, abuse of IPRs has benefited [...]

The currency is plummeting. The streets are baron. The tour busses are parked and the schools are closed.  If this were 2003, we would be referring to China. However, in lieu of the widespread pandemic that swine flu has now become, we are of course, documenting the goings-on in Mexico.  There is a reason China, [...]

In the era deemed ‘multi-polar’ we are seeing a dramatic rise of the rest. In these developing nations, one reason why such advancement is taking place is due to the boom in technological advancements in emerging market economies. The interconnectedness from farmer to manufacturer has been widely praised, including in this blog. But in the marketplaces [...]

Investment in Africa has become a growing trend on the geopolitical landscape. Major players engage in infrastructure reform initiatives to alleviate once poverty-stricken, now slowly-developing nations while at the same time engaging in integration practices that defy ethical standards due to a lack of coordinated litigation in support of corporate and even government social responsibility. [...]

Unless you visit, see it on the ground floor, you’re not likely to learn a great deal about contemporary China that the government either doesn’t want you to learn or that must be comparatively taken with a grain of salt. A topic that sparked interest in me while visiting Beijing, a beautiful city unfortunately mired [...]

Venezuelan Vice-minister of Foreign Affairs to Africa, Reinaldo Bolivar, today concluded an official visit to Angola.  The Angolan news agency, ANGOP, reported that the Venezuelan diplomat stated, on arriving back in Venezuela, that the visit had the objective of strengthening the two nations’ cooperative ties in the fields of energy, diplomacy, politics, and indeed in [...]

Justin Lin knows struggle. He also knows how to be stoic and seek adaptive opportunity in the face of economic adversity. Its not only what he has been trained to master, but something he learned through experience. Formerly a professor at Peking University, Mr. Lin is the first person from a developing country to hold [...]

The global economic recession has left a dramatically altered world; The BRIC markets emerge and indeed hold court. The rise of “the rest”. The G2 superpower superiority in a multipolar world. Yet the continent of Africa still evokes in many minds what Dambisa Moyo describes as an “African Apocalypse“. Corruption, disease, war and poverty are [...]