Personal Thoughts

British Foreign Policy re China: Short-sightedness or “pragmatism”?

COVID is an alarm saying economics actually depends on human rights, which British foreign policy to China fails to recognise in its so-called “pragmatism”which is more short-sighted than it is pragmatic.

Myanmar – Is Peace Only a Reverie?

Thant Myint-U offers an inside account of the twists and turns behind Myanmar’s troubled quest for peace.

International Women’s Day | Lessons Learnt As A Young (BAME) Career Woman

When I was studying hard sciences during my undergrad, I found it incredibly daunting as an Asian woman entering into a field where women of colour are still a rarity. Being raised in a very diverse, multinational academic environment back at home, where my peers and teachers in my international school were from across the…

The Third Culture: Confessions of an (aspiring) academic from a War-Torn Country

Growing up understanding my privileges was quite strange. What do you mean by privileges you’d say – and I’d say the privilege to a Western, liberal education. Don’t get me started on why I put “Western” before “liberal education” – I don’t know, I’m still trying to find out.