Scenarios for the Hong Kong situation

We could very well see the armed intervention of China’s…

2020s — A Dangerous Decade

As difficult as things today might seem, tomorrow (as in the next decade) will be even more difficult. There are a few reasons why the geopolitical situation will become more volatile in the next decade.

1. The US will be in even more domestic turmoil. No…

Text Analytics in Python

I embarked on a project recently to look at the journalistic coverage of the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan. This was…

Belt and Road Forum — 2017 and 2019: A Network Analysis

Trade Agreement Networks

This is a little piece of work illustrating the network of trade agreements.

Preliminary Thoughts — Text Analytics and some Social Science

China and Regional Geopolitics

I’ve been thinking about a concept of China and what it is doing in the world. I’ve made some preliminary forays into thinking about it, and where I am on this is currently, that China is setting the foundation for an alternative international and global governance…

Newsletter #1: Geopolitics and Offensive Realism

Some Intuitions on AI and the Future of Work

Andrew Ng made the remark that AI is the new electricity. That is a good starting point. If I went by that metaphor, one day, AI services will become so basic and so vital to people’s lives that it would be one day unthinkable to think about life with…