Editorial director Asian Affairs, Host Democracy Forum & Goldster Book Club Inside Story. Author, Asian Waters, Dragon Strike series & Rake Ozenna thrillers.
Whoever briefed this Merkel broken glass analogy needs to be held to account either for inexcusable ignorance or for making a deliberate reference to the November ‘38 Nazi Kristallnacht violence against Germany’s Jewish community.
Shocked! Yes. If you think you know how the Second World War began, think again. Privileged to be with the great
@Roger_Moorhouse
for launch of his
@TheBodleyHead
myth-slaying account of the invasion of Poland. Photo by the talented
@BrionyRoseSKY
Once again brain dead
@TfL
allow private finance company
@Prudential
to bring London to standstill for cycling event. If people want to cycle, they can. No need to shut down a city. What next? Shut the Channel for a sailing regatta?
Privileged to give Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen a copy of Asian Waters. As authoritarianism strengthens, Taiwan stands on real front line of democracy, facing increased military intimidation and interference from Beijing in its politics and trade
Both
@theresa_may
@realDonaldTrump
now threatening national emergencies to fulfill anti-immigration visions of nationalism Walls, stocked medical supplies, emergency ferries, crippled government and the rest.
If you're looking for a gripping espionage thriller with Cold War flavor plus 21st century global awareness, grab a copy of MAN ON FIRE, the latest from
@hwhawksley
. Read more about it in this
#TheBigThrill
interview by
@ascamacho
@thrillerwriters
The
#Brexit
camp insists dignity & control are more important than living standards. Many
#Leave
leaders are protected multimillionaires. Others are exposed and vulnerable. What is the tipping point on increased poverty?
Out today: Man on Edge,
@hwhawksley
's latest tense and twisting espionage thriller in the Rake Ozenna series published by
@severnhouse
. State secrets, lethal assassins and the threat of a new Cold War… Need we say more?
Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, France, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, Spain, United Kingdom – protests across geography and culture against governing classes that are no longer trusted. Brexit is but a small part of a global trend.
Massive coastal erosion and flooding risk around
#Sizewell
. What measures
@EDFenergy
taking to protect neighbourhood coastline
@BBCsimonjack
@BBCjustinR
? They all said 2011 Fukushima could never happen.
Will China invade Taiwan? If so, what does it hope to gain? Would America go to war? Why has Asia become such a flashpoint? Answers in this excellent guide to Asia.
Welcome to British justice. High profile case dismissed without explanation by judges appointed without scrutiny. Saying reasons will come later not good enough. BBC News - Brexit: Boris Johnson £350m claim case thrown out by judges
Very much enjoyed engaging
@FredOlsenCruise
passengers with maps and stories of upcoming Asian and Arctic tension while sailing through Indonesia. One day talking, next day snorkeling.
@severnhouse
@blackthornbks
A Dalit girl in Gujarat was allegedly molested by a group of 6 people from the Patel community.
When her family protested, they were allegedly beaten up and later booked for assault by the police on a complaint by the accused.
The Cold War comprised two competing ideologies, very little economic entanglement; the US & USSR each running multi-layered global alliances and a threat of mutually assured destruction. Whatever this is, it is not a new cold war.
How did it come to this...? Japan is paying its companies to relocate from China to Bangladesh or India, among other countries. Will it pay other Japanese companies, like floundering car makers & electronics giants, to STAY in Thailand?
Language between the
#USA
and
#China
China is becoming more hostile and hitting headlines daily. For those, inadvertently caught up in this antagonism, a brief primer on the pros and cons of China.
@AbramsPress
Winter ice is finally melting on the U.S.-Russian border. This photo by JoAnn Kaningok today from
#Alaska
's Little Diomede across to
#Russia
's Big Diomede. The narrow stretch of water is known as the Ice Curtain.
Great to see BBC correspondents
@BBCJonSopel
@FrankRGardner
in BBC Media Action’s online prize auction – bid for a chance to give THEM a virtual grilling for a change! All in support of the BBC’s incredible international charity
@bbcmediaaction
Meet Tim Marshall,
@Itwitius
author of The Power (& Prisoners) of Geography. With well over a million books sold he has track record of making sense of issues that confuse many of us. Join
@GoldsterClub
Inside Story 12.00 BST Friday. It's free.
I’ve been nominated by
@MarkFoxNews
through
@BrandonLewis
to post covers of
#7books
I love. No reviews, no explanations, just covers. With each post I’ll nominate someone else to take up the challenge. Book 1,I nominate
@LizJensenWriter
Any regime that goes around picking unnecessary fights is setting itself up for a fall. Beijing cannot take on India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Uigur Muslims, Japan, the U.S. and Europe and expect to be welcomed as a new global power.
@FCC
Historically, major reforms to the global system have been implemented
only after war. Will they happen before the next one. To find out pick up a copy of Asian Waters
In 2016, Gove said: If we vote Leave, then we're in a position to dictate the terms in Britain's economic interests." Now he says, UK is beholden to EU conditions. Earlier, he advised voters to ignore expert advice. Why should anyone ever believe a word he says?
“It’s a grim but inescapable fact that in the event of a no-deal Brexit… tariffs on beef and sheep meat would be above 40%”
Environment Secretary Michael Gove warns of problems for farmers in the event of no-deal, and urges MPs to back the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal.
Taiwan is great success of democracy in Asia. To uphold our values we must not allow China to bully Taiwan into unification with one party state
@rogerboyes
@taipei_times
@Taiwan_in_UK
Several thousand soldiers with a Chinese PLA Air Force airborne brigade took just a few hours to maneuver from Central China’s Hubei Province to northwestern, high-altitude region amid China-India border tensions.
2 A critical mass of voters do not want what they view as rule by a trans-national super state while they do need to forfeit a measure of sovereignty to enable the freest possible trade with neighboring countries and hence raise living standards.
Thru "Goldster" a UK based "fitness, wellbeing, purpose" centre, Lucinda & Humphrey
@hwhawksley
conduct writer interviews. Am honored tomorrow - Friday noon London time - to be Humphrey's guest to talk about my time in
#Asia
and my
#Vietnam
#Cambodia
book.
One of the more impressive, if unnerving books, on the true tenuous lines of relationship between the US and China. Thank you San Francisco Review of Books.
@Duckbooks
@overlookpress
West Coast Asian Waters tour October 2018
Hugely important political win in Poland for democracy etc. Any mention on BBC headlines at 9 a.m.? Guess. Already for BBC etc nations of Europe are faraway places of which BBC editors don't need to know very much
Much UK-US talk Huawei, Chinese tech, next to nothing on human rights & some million Xinjiang Uigurs incarcerated in concentration camps. On 30th anniversary of Tiananmen killings, how times have changed, how our values have changed!
A real pleasure to listen to
@DanKaszeta
tonight talking with
@edwardlucas
about his personal experience of Conservative cancel culture. He won’t be silenced and we will do everything we can to support him and others who are on the
#blocklist
Just a few hours until the BBC Correspondents’ Charity Dinner in aid of
@bbcmediaaction
– the BBC’s international charity. Tonight the charity will be sharing how they support women and girls around the world tackle gender inequality:
#mediaforgood