South China Sea: The Limits of Quiet Diplomacy
[1] Kishore Mahbubani – Singapore’s widely respected diplomat and scholar – recently lauded Malaysia’s quiet diplomacy in dealing with China’s …
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Palestine & the Collapse of Western Moral Authority
Vivid television coverage of heavily armed police moving into US campuses to quell peaceful student demonstrations is not what one …
Are China’s South China Sea assurances worth anything?
The latest edition of the China Standard Map – which reiterates China’s claims to almost all of the South China …
The Khashoggi murder & Malaysia’s foreign policy
Amidst growing international outrage over the brutal and gruesome murder of Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, Foreign Minister Saifuddin …
Wikileaks: exposing the hypocrisy of nations
FOR the past several weeks, WikiLeaks has treated the world to an insider’s view of the diplomatic process. We …
Let the nose-talkers talk and the busybodies keep busy
Over the last few weeks, Malaysia has attracted the kind of international attention that would make most diplomats cringe. First, …
Obama deserves a positive global response
THE days following 9/11 saw a massive outpouring of sympathy and support across the world for the United States. In …
Dennis Ignatius 
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