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When I first began reflecting on the U.S.–China trade war, one fact struck me as extraordinary: China was the only country that truly stood its ground. And by most expert accounts, it is China that emerged in the stronger position. While other nations hesitated or sought accommodation, China not only absorbed the economic shocks but countered them with precision—identifying choke points in the global supply chain and responding in ways that demonstrated a deep understanding o

The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage  — caused by a DNS fault deep in the cloud network — wasn't caused by a physical safety lapse or a hardware failure in a single data center . Yet its global impact offered a clear reminder: whether the disruption begins in software, hardware or process, downtime costs the same . This reality underscores a fundamental truth known to all critical infrastructure operators: reliability is not just a technical specification, but a cultur

The Global South Energy Transition: Lessons in Pragmatism from Singapore Introduction: The Dilemma of Developmental Asymmetry The global...