Geopolitics
My Proposed Drone Defence Policy for Malaysia
Iran's performance in the Strait of Hormuz just rewrote the math on what small and mid-sized states need to defend their waters.
MDJul 13, 2026
Asia
4 pieces
Manufactured Destiny
Park Chung-hee's Miracle, and the Bill Coming Due
Korea already ran the Manufactured Destiny playbook once. The instruments that built the miracle are the same ones strangling it now.
MD/ESJun 29, 2026Johor, Batam, and the Fiction of the Border
Two zones outproducing the rest of their own countries combined — and the colonial-drawn line between them that everyone's agreed to pretend still matters.
MD/ESJun 15, 2026
Elective Stagnation
Korea and the Kazakh Model
The fix for South Korea's birth rate isn't more cash bonuses. It's a mechanism nobody in Seoul wants to copy.
ESJul 6, 2026Park Chung-hee's Miracle, and the Bill Coming Due
Korea already ran the Manufactured Destiny playbook once. The instruments that built the miracle are the same ones strangling it now.
MD/ESJun 29, 2026Johor, Batam, and the Fiction of the Border
Two zones outproducing the rest of their own countries combined — and the colonial-drawn line between them that everyone's agreed to pretend still matters.
MD/ESJun 15, 2026