Latest / The Straits Times Podcasts
S2E9: Brace for turbulence: China, South-east Asia and Trump 2.0
The US’ President-elect inherits a world different from that in his first term.
Synopsis: The Straits Times' global contributor Nirmal Ghosh shines a light on Asian perspectives of global and Asian issues with expert guests.
Tariffs - as a weapon to restore and rejuvenate American jobs and manufacturing - will be back with a vengeance in Donald Trump’s second term. So will competition with China, in the course of which performative support for Taiwan by hawks in Congress and Washington DC security circles may end up provoking Beijing and thus hurting Taiwan.
Yet the US’ 47th President will…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.