• Dr Guanie Lim – The Global Economy and its politics in 2025: The View from Southeast Asia   

    By Deiniol Brown Dr Guanie Lim is associate professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. His research focuses on the political economy of Asia, the Belt and Road Initiative, and value chain analysis. He was previously a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and has worked in the private…

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  • FMW Blog – Reflections on the Young China Watchers’ 8th London Conference 

    By Deiniol Brown On the 26th April, I attended the Young China Watchers’ annual conference held at King’s College London, which included a series of speeches and discussions aimed at exploring China’s global political relevance, and relation to the UK. Speakers included former minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the Economist’s defence editor Shashank Joshi, and a host of…

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  • Dr Pádraig Carmody –  Africa in Geopolitical Perspective: Dependency amidst Global Economic Competition 

    By Deiniol Brown Dr Pádraig Carmody is a professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin, specialising in research on the political economy of globalisation in Africa, in particular on competition between China, the US and other powers on the continent, and the structural economic implications of these dynamics. He is also a Senior Research Associate…

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