Norms & standards

‘Under siege’: Businesses need to focus on geopolitics as current global order erodes

I shared comments with Tala Michel Issa for Arabian Business, on the urgency for corporates to make geopolitics their main…

2 years ago

China’s Logink platform as an economic weapon?

In 2007, China began implementing the strategy encapsulating the new world reality that “data is the new oil“. Through the…

2 years ago

Colombia is unprepared to handle the risks of Chinese tech investment

This article, co-authored with Daniel Poveda and Christian Heinze, is part of the report "Understanding China's Tech Footprint in Colombia",…

2 years ago

Unrestricted Warfare, The Siege of Jadotville, and the Turkish Story of Progress

In Episode #3 of the "Geopolitical Musings with Confluence" podcast, Confluence Consultants Partner & Asia Power Watch Editor Nicolas Michelon…

2 years ago

China’s LOGINK digital platform: a weapon to bring about a new economic hegemon through data control, ownership, and manipulation?

Since the article published on this website in 2021, on China's drive towards creating a global smart supply chain integration…

3 years ago

The race for energy sovereignty. The case of China’s EV strategy

According to the successive Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, transportation is a major polluter with around 7.3 billion…

3 years ago

The War of the Powerful: Chinese and American ploys for world leadership

This article is a summary of the book "La guerre des puissants. Stratagèmes de domination de la Chine et des…

4 years ago

Will future trade with China require digital integration with its Belt & Road Initiative?

With all the talk of supply chain dependency on China needing to “decouple” because of supply issues being exposed by…

4 years ago