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Starting May 7 all U.S. flyers will need a real ID to get through security and federal buildings. Aimee Inama, PennDOT’s spokesperson joined The Spark to share what we need to know before the deadline. Asia: Okay, so let's start with the basics. What exactly is the real ID and why was it introduced? Aimee: A real ID is a federally acceptable photo ID or driver's license. And it's a convenient way for people to use to fly domestically, enter certain federal buildings that require a federally acceptable ID or military bases. The federal government set a deadline of May 7th for the enforcement of the of the Real ID Act. and it is a federal act. So in Pennsylvania, real ID is optional. And what that means is Pennsylvanians can choose whether or not they want to get a real ID. So they can say, I'm gonna get the real ID and they'll be set. Or they need to have another form of federally acceptable ID, such as a passport on or after May 7th to do, to fly domestically enter certain federal facilities, as well as military bases. Asia: What are the key differences between a standard Pennsylvania driver's license and Real ID? Aimee: You do have to do this anyway for a regular driver's license as well. You have to show certain documentation. But for a real idea, you need to show proof of identity, which is in the form of a birth certificate or a valid passport. You have to show proof of social security number, which could your social security card or a W -2. And the key is that proof of social security number has to show all nine digits. You do have to show two proofs of Pennsylvania residency. So that could be a driver's license, a vehicle registration, utility bill, something like that. And you also need to show proof of legal name change if you had one. And all of those documents are on our website so people can see the list of the acceptable documents that we take. Asia: Who needs to get a real ID and is it mandatory for all Pennsylvanians? Aimee: In Pennsylvania, it's optional, so that means you Pennsylvanians can choose whether or not they want to get a real ID. So, we have a little quiz on our website, so people should go to that quiz, take it, and that will determine whether or not a real ID is right for them. So, and like I had mentioned before, a real ID is needed in order to... It's a convenient way for people to fly domestically, enter certain federal buildings that require a federally acceptable ID. or inter -military bases. So, and like I said, in Pennsylvania, it's optional. So that means if you don't want a real ID, you just need another federally acceptable ID, which is a passport. So, if you don't have a real ID and you wanna fly domestically and you have a passport. Listen to the podcast to hear the entire conversation. Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Health officials in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania have confirmed a case of measles in an unvaccinated child, and it’s possible to sat members of the public were exposed. Dr. Banku Jairath at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical school shared what we need to know about measles and how to stay safe. Asia: Can you start by explaining what measles are and why it is considered such a serious illness? Dr. Jairath: Measles is a preventable, highly contagious, and airborne virus that can cause serious health complications. It is, it's a very serious illness and is one of the most infectious viral illnesses known to mankind. So, if you have a person who's infected with the measles virus, and you put that person in a room with 100 unvaccinated people, 90 of those 100 people would get infected. Its 90 percent is the infectious rate of this virus. It was officially considered eliminated from United States in the year 2000 due to the effectiveness of the MMR vaccine, which is the best way to prevent measles and also the best way to prevent its spread. Asia: What symptoms take place once you've contracted measles? Dr. Jairath: The common symptoms that are seen with measles are fever, which is anything above 100 .4 degrees Fahrenheit, which can last several days. You can have cough, runny nose, watery eyes, sensitivity to light, and then later you develop a rash. You can also develop pneumonia. You can develop brain swelling or encephalitis. and then get complications from that. And a person with measles is contagious for about eight days from four days before the rash appears until four days after. Asia: So, like you said vaccination has been key in keeping measles cases low for years but we're also seeing a resurgence. Could you explain the importance of the vaccine and how effective it is? Dr. Jairath: So, measles vaccine, as I said, is strongly recommended for kids from the first dose is typically given after 12 months of age. And the second dose is given anywhere between four to six years of age. The One dose gives you close to 95 % protection and two doses give you close to 97 % protection. So, it is one of the highly efficacious vaccines that we have and effective. Listen to the podcast to hear the entire conversation. Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The historic Strasburg Railroad is hosting a one-of-a-kind experience. You can now solve a mystery on a train. Avery Klees and Terron Quailes, Director of Entertainment, shared more information about the experience. Asia: Okay, so let's start from the beginning. Tell us where the inspiration came from to create an escape room on a train at such a historic place. Terron: So, the entertainment department started at Strasburg Railroad in 2020. That was when we established the in-house team. I wasn't there at that time, but since then, the team has grown. It initially started with the escape room process in 2021, which happened on a moving train and that was Houdini's Great Escape. And then in 2022, there was Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes themed escape room that took place on one of our historic president's cars. and then in twenty-three we moved to the stationary car curse the bobber was twenty-three and twenty-four and then now we're back with two brand new ones disco down the tracks and crack the case. Asia: What made you all decide to go from starting on a moving train to now a stationary experience? Terron: So, I think part of that was just the logistics behind it. Again, if you're on a moving train, things are also more complicated that way. With limited amount of time, the train ride itself was a 45 -minute train ride, so that shortens the amount of time that you could even have in the escape room, where most escape rooms last about at least 60 minutes to try to get out of it. And so then being able to put it in the Bobber, which was one of our stationary cars, was super helpful, and then this year we have it. The second car is coach 20, which is one of the oldest cars that we have thre as well. So yeah, it was it was super fun to be able to have two different experiences happening at the same time. Avery: Definitely, like, it's such a historic area, but even just in the complexity of designing something like that and the nature of a moving train, like if anyone's ever ridden a train before, it's very bumpy, you could have unexpected things. If we need to stop at a certain point, then all of a sudden, your timing is affected. There's a lot of external factors that go into just operating a train that then when you have the Complexity of then doing an escape room at the same time it They overlap in a very weird spot that you don't necessarily want when you're trying to create this experience for people. Listen to the podcast to hear the entire conversation. Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thematic investing. Venture capital. Private equity. Democratization. Lorin Gu, the founding partner of Recharge Capital- which has financially backed fertility companies across the globe (including KindBody), joins the show this week to explain his fresh-eyes approach to capitalizing on the empirical growth rate of the fertility industry. Tune in to Inside Reproductive Health with Griffin Jones for the latest episode. Listen to hear: Private equity and venture capital being used together--to align incentives in the provider and vendor chains. Griffin ask Lorin how he can be sure to handle the speed of investing in reproductive medicine. How does he know he's closer to world-class competence than to a Sam Bankman-Fried? Globalization: How Recharge is deploying its capital across borders in North America, Europe and Asia What makes up the capital stack and value chain across the fertility field. Which countries are attracting the most international patients, and who will be the ‘winner', and why, in Lorin Gu's opinion. Is this the end of globalization? Why supply chain issues are happening now across the fertility industry.

Kaori Nishiyama is a Japanese national living in Tokyo. She is a world traveller, and relishes immersing herself in different cultures and having a discourse with local people. She attained a master's degree in Demography at Georgetown University in the United States in 1997. From that point onwards, she began touring the world. She lived in Zinder, Niger; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Phnom Penh in Cambodia. After settling back in Tokyo in 2014, she began work as an event organizer at the PMI Japan Chapter. She is enjoying a lot coordinating events with lots of volunteers of the chapter. Some of her volunteer work has included giving directions to tourists on the Ginza and Ueno streets, being involved in the annual Tokyo marathon and most recently, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Before the coronavirus pandemic, she took off overseas every year. Currently, she sharpens her English at home, hoping to use the language when world travelling becomes possible again. [02:09] Beginning of the interview. In this episode, you will learn: How Kaori could adapt to Niger Her experiences in Asia What she considers as a top skill for global leaders Her last message to the listeners Would you like to become a (better) global leader? Please subscribe to explore honest advice from real people.  You can follow Yasmina on Linkedin and Twitter @YasminaKhelifi7

Murray King is one of those people who took an early bet on China, and applied for a Beijing posting with the Canadian diplomatic service in the 1990s. Fast forward two decades, and he was part of the team that was bringing the Disney experience to China. In today's episode, Murray shares how he continues to apply his experience in negotiation and public relations to his role as the Head of Public Affairs for the Shanghai Disney Resort.We end our discussion on a question that might resonate with all the other people out there who have spent decades living in Asia: What's your end game? And Murray actually has an inspired answer to that question.

Murray King is one of those people who took an early bet on China, and applied for a Beijing posting with the Canadian diplomatic service in the 1990s. Fast forward two decades, and he was part of the team that was bringing the Disney experience to China. In today's episode, Murray shares how he continues to apply his experience in negotiation and public relations to his role as the Head of Public Affairs for the Shanghai Disney Resort. We end our discussion on a question that might resonate with all the other people out there who have spent decades living in Asia: What's your end game? And Murray actually has an inspired answer to that question. Subscribe to the PREMIUM version, see the visuals, and/or follow the full transcript for this episode at https://mosaicofchina.com/season-02-episode-29-murray-king Join the community on Instagram (https://instagram.com/mosaicofchina_), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/mosaicofchina), Facebook (https://facebook.com/mosaicofchina) or WeChat (https://mosaicofchina.com/wechat). The episode also includes a catch-up interview with Emily Madge from Season 01 Episode 14. https://mosaicofchina.com/season-01-episode-14-emily-madge

Today's we have Lenny Logsdale (@aquaticapes), one of my favorite content creators making epic spearfishing videos. He's living his best life in Indonesia! He's a master storyteller and has some great advice for anyone looking to make content around spearfishing. We cover: Lenny's backstory How he moved to Asia What it's like spearfishing every day Diving in Bali Check out more from Cast & Spear: Subscribe to the Cast & Spear Podcast Check out our Weekly Fishing Newsletter Watch our YouTube videos Follow our Instagram Watch our TikTok videos Like our Facebook Page

Drago & Scott are stirring the pot - with Vasuki Shastry, author of Has Asia Lost It? Dynamic Past, Turbulent Future.  He starts his career in journalism with Business India and India Today in Mumbai, then works with the Business Times in Jakarta and Singapore. After that Vasuki is in the press centre of the IMF, acting as their Asia Pacific spokesperson during the Asia financial crisis.  Vasuki then becomes Head of Public Affairs for the IMF and Standard Chartered Bank in London. Today, he's an Associate Asia Pacific Fellow at Chatham House, a think tank, and is based in Washington DC and London.  Tune in for this delicious feast that is part 1 of our convo:- The need to rethink the 'Asia' label: the 'dysutopia' of Asia- What keeps Vasuki up at night, thinking about the future of Asia: the geopolitical, demographic and cultural challenges facing the region- The role of consumption in future growth- The limitations to social mobility here and the resulting social challenges in the future- The role of the marketing and marketing research community in the region in helping to understand the 'consumer' in a more granular way: data and insight that are missing at the moment Dropping parts 2 and 3 later this week – stay tuned!

This week we speak to Katharine Neiss, Chief European Economist for PGIM Fixed Income to take stock on where we are in terms of the recovery in Europe. We discuss – - What's the current state of play in terms of the European post-Covid-19 recovery (vs expectations at the start of the year and vs the US, Asia) - What data points is Katharine watching over the coming months on this? - Inflation – Katharine's view on this, whether it is transitory or here to stay and why. - Differences across Europe, what's important, what has Katharine been watching out for? - Influence of the US – the early take on the Biden admin and its impact - The next 10 years: will it be the roaring 20's or a slow recovery? How is Europe positioned and what might hold it back? - Tech – is the lack of a meaningful tech sector going to hurt Europe? Most important things to watch for the next 12 months It's not all doom and gloom in Europe, there are elements of dynamism that people may find surprising. The most underappreciated thing in investing Diversification. A good investor doesn't get captured by your asset class - you need to diversify. Recommendations Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You  Macro Musings Podcast

Kevin Kelly is the co-founder and editor at Wired magazine, and one of the world’s leading technologists. He’s the author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable and has recently launched Vanishing Asia, a photo-book documenting 40 years of Kevin’s travels in Asia.  In this episode we discuss: - Kevin’s lessons about photography, the world and himself from 40 years of travel in Asia - What the rise of Asia and accelerating global convergence means for you and the world- How to succeed in the industry of ideas and the current state of intellectual property This was a wide ranging conversation that will offer you powerful insights about travel, technology and where the world is going. Most importantly, you’ll get a fresh perspective on how to discover your own unique attributes so you can future proof yourself and live a good life.

EUAN RELLIE is on the podcast today. We went around the world in half an hour and probably could have solved the worlds problems over drinks if we had the time. Alas, we only get a taste of Euan's informed worldview and his story of building a business and advising clients as they solve the puzzle of doing business in Asia and around the world successfully. We do get a hear a bit about of his love for Arsenal Football at the end. For those who want to hear more from Euan, he is an excellent twitter follow . . . @EUANRELLIE. He is quoted often on matters of finance, fashion and culture- recently in the New York Times and the South China Morning Post. In his day job, Euan is an investment banker with the firm he founded, BDA Partners. Since founding BDA in 1996, he has lived in New York and London, and Singapore, and has worked in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, India and across the Middle East. 1990-1996, he worked for Schroders, the UK investment bank now part of Citigroup, in New York, London and Singapore. He was Head of SE Asia Execution for Schroders Asia-Pacific Regional Advisory Group. Our discussion covered a wide range of topics- I wish we had longer! Economic Outlook What are some of the good and difficult data points that you are focussing on? Background- How did you get into the world? How did your London background prepare you for New York? BDA's Function Focus on Asia and helping firms on the sell side. Helping firms access the capital and expertise in Asia and around the world Prospects for Asia- What does the U.S./China dynamic look like long term? What do American businesses get wrong doing business far from home? United States Politics- What should we take away from this tumultuous last few months? What can we expect in the post-Trump world? What should we feel optimistic about? Arsenal Football How do the prospects for this season look? What does the future look like? BDA Partners Website: https://www.bdapartners.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Actually-Intelligent-Decision-Making-1-ebook/dp/B07FPQJJQT/

As of this recording, we are on our way to hitting 45 million cases of Covid-19 worldwide, the majority of those have recovered but new cases are still rising in most countries and if anything, this year’s pandemic has really highlighted how vulnerable our healthcare systems can be. Even before the emergence of Covid-19, many countries faced challenges in providing equitable healthcare access to all of their population. Today on the show, we explore what healthcare systems in the APAC region look like and why it’s important for different stakeholders to work together to find ways to improve the system. In this episode, I am joined by Rachel Frizberg, Area Head of Asia Pacific for Roche Pharma. Originally from the UK, Rachel shares with us what led her to Asia, why she’s passionate about working with different decision makers to improve health equity in the region, and what does ‘futureproofing’ health care systems mean and what will it look like. Topics we explored: - Why chemical manufacturing was not Rachel's calling, and how she found her way to Roche in Asia - What makes health equity challenging in APAC - Differences in healthcare systems across Asia and finding opportunities to bring stakeholders to the table - Relationship building with trust, finding a common goal, and data-driven conversations - What is 'futureproofing' healthcare systems and how can it be achieved? Follow Roche's Futureproofing healthcare initiative: https://futureproofinghealthcare.com/ https://www.roche.com/about/priorities/personalised_healthcare/futureproof.htm Follow the Asia Healthcare Podcast! https://siryn.co/asia-healthcare-podcast https://anchor.fm/asiahealthcare Twitter: @jchanpharma Music from https://www.jeffcaylor.com/

Asia’s wind power market is recognised as one of the fastest-growing sectors worldwide - the annual growth rate has increased from just 1.7% per year at the start of the decade to 8.4% per year today. In this episode of NES Chat, we go on the road to Vietnam to find out what challenges are facing the emerging Wind Power sector in South-East Asia. Charlie Delaume, Managing Consultant based in our Vietnam office, spoke with Scott Powers, who is the Sales Director for Siemens Gamesa in South East Asia, to find out more. They discussed: - Why Wind Power has become to popular in Asia - What opportunities there are for investors in the region - What challenges companies are facing - Where the skills gaps are and more Listen to this episode now! If you’re interested in learning more about the Renewables sector in Asia, lookout for the next episode in this series. To make sure you don’t miss an episode, you can follow us on Soundcloud, iTunes or Spotify. Or visit our website www.nesfircroft.com for the latest industry insights. NES covers recruitment across many sectors meaning we have supported clients and candidates across a number of industries for the last forty years in good and challenging times. If you need support contact your local NES representative: www.nesfircroft.com/about/contact

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed US-China relations to their lowest point in decades. Deep differences over trade, foreign policy and values have been sharpened amid increasingly hostile rhetoric. What is driving these developments and do they signal the dawn of a new Cold War? How is the pandemic and China’s “wolf warrior” diplomacy shaping the geopolitical contest in Asia? What impact are US and Chinese actions and rivalry having on other countries in the Indo-Pacific? And how should Australia best advance its interests amid deteriorating US-China ties, growing strategic competition and a polarising response to the call for an independent inquiry into COVID-19? To discuss these issues, USSC hosted a special webinar featuring Ashley Townshend, Director of Foreign Policy and Defence with the United States Studies Centre, Dr Lynn Kuok, Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Security, IISS, and Richard Maude, Executive Director of Policy with the Asia Society Australia, in conversation with Dr Lavina Lee, Macquarie University.

In this episode of the podcast, we sit down with Andrew Spalter Founder of East Goes Global, the premier social media management company creating, managing, and developing client’s digital presence in the Chinese Market. Andrew has worked with the likes of Will Smith, Carly Rae Jepsen, DJ Snake, Yungblud and Clairo to help them tap into an audience of millions. In this episode we discuss… What are general marketing principles he applies to building a fanbase in Asia What are a few key differences between the Chinese market and the American market?What does he think the two markets can learn from each other?What up and coming artists can do off the bat to help break into China? As always, never hesitate to leave a review or reach out to @musicbusinesspodcast Instagram with any feedback or ideas. Find East Goes Global at https://www.eastgoesglobal.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mike is joined by Dr. Kath Hicks, Henry Kissinger Chair, Senior Vice President, and Director of the International Security Program at CSIS, for a discussion of how "gray zone" tactics factor into grand strategy in Asia. In unpacking the effect of gray zone tactics on strategy, Mike and Kath define the parameters of gray zone tactics and the domains in which they are most effective. With these assumptions in mind, what will the knock-on effects of gray zone tactics be on theories of coercion, victory, and defense planning in Asia? What parts of the U.S. government have historically been most effective at adapting to gray zone competition? Mike and Kath further discuss Kath's journey through the Department of Defense and her advice for young women hoping to become defense professionals. Download full transcript here.

Mike is joined by Dr. Kath Hicks, Henry Kissinger Chair, Senior Vice President, and Director of the International Security Program at CSIS, for a discussion of how "gray zone" tactics factor into grand strategy in Asia. In unpacking the effect of gray zone tactics on strategy, Mike and Kath define the parameters of gray zone tactics and the domains in which they are most effective. With these assumptions in mind, what will the knock-on effects of gray zone tactics be on theories of coercion, victory, and defense planning in Asia? What parts of the U.S. government have historically been most effective at adapting to gray zone competition? Mike and Kath further discuss Kath's journey through the Department of Defense and her advice for young women hoping to become defense professionals. Download full transcript here.

In today’s episode we have Helen Maffini, a Canadian/British international educational consultant. You can watch the video of this interview on YouTube as well as listen on our regular podcast channel. Helen is the host of the Mindfulness in Education and Peace Summits, a doctoral researcher, author and educator and will share with us her experience as the host of  "The Mindful Peace Summits" that bring educators, business leaders, researchers and experts in the field together in one place, to share their ideas, resources and expertise on the future of "Mindfulness and Meditation" in our schools. With time, these practices will be implemented in more and more schools worldwide, and workplaces will follow the way (like in the UK where meditation is used in parliament). Here Helen's thoughts on the following questions. Q1: I’ve been blessed to be interviewed by you for your Mindful Peace Summits where you interview leaders across the world in the area of SEL and neuroscience with guests like Dr. Daniel Siegal, the author of Brain Storm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain (and countless other books) as well as many others. Why did you create the Mindful Peace Summits? What have YOU learned from your interviews?Q2: It was powerful watching 14-year-old Adam Avin hosting your last Mindful Peace Summit in February. I think that student-voice is trending in the country, and Adam is spearheading his way. How did Adam impact your Summit? What did you notice about his participation?Q3: I know we have similar visions for where we see education going, and we have both come from similar backgrounds. Where do you think SEL is right now in the US opposed to Canada and Internationally? Is the US behind/at the same pace? (I see Canada as being ahead from the fact that in 2016 they hired me to present on SEL/Neuroscience whereas the US is just catching onto this topic). Curious what you think?Q4: Can you explain your MindBe Curriculum and how it’s impacting schools in Asia? What is your vision for your curriculum? (Canada/USA)?Q5: What’s on the 3-5 year plan for you? I know you are always working on something. What’s next?   

How has its Scandinavian corporate culture given Telenor a competitive advantage when doing business in Asia? What is «the perfect storm» of technologies, and why does it matter to all of us? In this episode of LØRN Silvija talks to Telenor Group CEO Sigve Brekke, about how Telenor is working to connect their customers to who and what matters most. — We see that the combination of 5G networks and IoT sensors and technology will accelerate the use and influence of Artificial Intelligence. These three tech components: AI, IoT and 5G network will create what we call «the perfect storm». When these elements come together and everything and everyone is connected, we get huge amounts of data that can be put through powerful cloud computers and analyzed through AI. We will see that there are endless opportunities, but also significant threats coming out from that, he says.You will LØRN about: ● Culture ● 5G ● Diversity ● Developing cities ● Gender balance ● Leadership ● «The perfect storm» Recommended literature: ● TelenorThis episode is produced in collaboration with Telenor Norway See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Has Canada missed the boat when it comes to exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the B.C. West Coast to new markets in Asia? What opportunities remain? And why is this a good idea that will both create good Canadian jobs and help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions?  Energy Examined host Tonya Zelinsky chats with Mark Pinney, manager of markets and transportation at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, answering these questions and more in a wide ranging conversation about Canada's LNG opportunity.

Los Angeles, CA- Partying like it is late 2017 in Asia? What will be the Twitter of Bitcoin? Lots of fake volume on exchanges? Coinbase IPO not coming soon. Mimblewimble, gold, Bcash pump, Blockchain.info pumping stellar, and much more! WATCH the show here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn5ZZOu3NM4 Follow Adam on Twitter- https://twitter.com/TechBalt All of the BitcoinMeister videos are here at DisruptMeister.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitcoinmeister/support

Artificial intelligence has been variously painted as the next big thing, the technology that will all-but-kill communications and the development that will increase efficiency and productivity exponentially. But where does the truth lie? Is AI all just hype? Do we really need to bother with it yet when no-one else is? Katie King is a digital transformation and management consultant, and was recently appointed to the UK Government All-Party Parliamentary Group task force for the enterprise adoption of AI. Her new book, Using Artificial Intelligence in Marketing, seeks to clear up some of the confusion around AI with case studies of companies using it both successfully and not-so-successfully. In this episode of the Digital Download podcast, Katie and I address some of the more challenging questions when it comes to AI and the communications industry. Here's what is discussed in this episode: What Katie King's book, Using Artificial Intelligence in Marketing, is all about How the conversation around artificial intelligence has evolved in the last 12 months How AI tools can add value to an organisation Whether or not communicators are applying AI in their job roles yet What AI encompasses How different companies are using and benefiting from AI Whether or not we're ready to give our data to AI tools voluntarily Whether there is a cultural acceptance issue in Europe around AI and robots compared to Asia What the use cases are for AI in marketing, PR and communications What some of the tools we can start using now are Whether we really need to bother with AI just yet Whether automation will further erode trust, resulting in less human connection How machine learning is already bleeding into the mainstream world Where we should track to stay up to date with AI   Subscribe: Apple Podcasts I Android Podcast Apps I Email I RSS   Useful Links from Today's Show Using Artificial Intelligence in Marketing [book] from Katie King and Kogan Page Nearly Half Of All ‘AI Startups' Are Cashing In On Hype from Forbes Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2018 from Gartner Google Duplex demo from The Verge   What to do Next I'd love to hear from you with any comments or thoughts. I read and reply to every single email, tweet or message. If you enjoyed today's show, please email it to a friend and/or share it on your favourite social media channels. You might also want to check out Digital Download Membership, which is like having an army of expert mentors to turn to who keep you updated with the latest digital and social media developments and provide feedback and opinions on your ideas. And finally, it would also be very awesome and hugely appreciated if you'd be able to take a couple of minutes to leave an honest review and rating for the podcast on iTunes, as this helps others discover Digital Download. Thanks for listening!  

Transcripthttps://actuaries.logicaldoc.cloud/download-ticket?ticketId=7df02de6-bf3d-481c-97f5-1ffe50a39af4David Whittle (Principal at Deloitte, Councillor of Actuaries Institute) and Matthew Maguire (Partner at NMG Financial Services Consulting, President of the Singapore Actuarial Society) discuss the General Insurance market in Asia.Discussion questions include;- What are the catastrophe risks within General Insurance and reinsurance in Asia?- What are the key considerations for insurers in Asia?- What are the insurance regulations in Asia and how has it unfolded?- Are capital requirements and accounting standards different in Asia compared to Australia? what are the characteristics of each?- How are actuaries in Singapore and the wider Asia area getting involved in Data Analytics?- How would you characterise pricing of insurance in terms of it's simplicity or complexity?- What is the future of actuaries and the profession in Asia?- What are the differences between the work an actuary does in Asia compared to Australia?About the Actuaries InstituteAs the sole professional body for Members in Australia and overseas, the Actuaries Institute represents the interests of the profession to government, business and the community. Actuaries assess risks through long-term analyses, modelling and scenario planning across a wide range of business problems. This unrivalled expertise enables the profession to comment on a range of business-related issues including enterprise risk management and prudential regulation, retirement income policy, finance and investment, general insurance, life insurance and health financing.Find out more about actuarieshttps://www.actuaries.asn.auFollow the Institute of Actuaries on our social channels;↳ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/792645/↳ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Actuaries-Institute/183337668450632↳ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ActuariesInst↳ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ActuariesInst↳ Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/user/actinst

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Enough about Thailand. Stu's buddy Pete stops by to talk about what life is really like for the expats who choose to call Korea home. Also: Is Elon Musk a bad person? Is racism alive and well in Asia? What does Scotty Pippin's gigantic penis have to say about all this? All these questions and more answered on this week's Barseholes Podcast!

The rise of global populism is the greatest threat to global democracy, and it's mainly driven not by economics, but by people's demand for public recognition of their identities, says political scientist Francis Fukuyama. "We want other people to affirm our worth, and that has to be a political act." How is this playing out in the U.S., Europe, and Asia? What practical steps can we take to counteract it?

The rise of global populism is the greatest threat to global democracy, and it's mainly driven not by economics, but by people's demand for public recognition of their identities, says political scientist Francis Fukuyama. "We want other people to affirm our worth, and that has to be a political act." How is this playing out in the U.S., Europe, and Asia? What practical steps can we take to counteract it?

The rise of global populism is the greatest threat to global democracy, and it's mainly driven not by economics, but by people's demand for public recognition of their identities, says political scientist Francis Fukuyama. "We want other people to affirm our worth, and that has to be a political act." How is this playing out in the U.S., Europe, and Asia? What practical steps can we take to counteract it?

Today on our weekly Sojourner Truth roundtable: The realignment of superpowers and the culture wars that were underscored and pushed forward in Trumps recent trip to Europe. From NATO to his trip to the U.K., to his secret meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to the Trump-Putin embrace of Israels security concerns. All this in the backdrop of the Trump-initiated trade wars with traditional U.S. allies including Canada, the European Union, Mexico " as well as the big fish of China. Are his policies pushing Europe closer to Asia? What other fallout is happening? And then there is his bid to be white supremacist in chief. Not only in the U.S., but globally, from his comments about immigration being no good for the culture of Europe to his continued trashing of immigrants to the U.S. from south of the border. To the thousands of children separated at the border and not yet reunited with their families. Also, his attacks on Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the general fallout resulting from his anti-immigrant sentiment and making overt racism a badge of honor among some. We also discuss the spate of white people calling the police on Black people for no good reason except they are living while Black. All this as the white supremacist organizations that organized the Charlottesville, Virginia gathering last year prepare to hold a rally outside the White House. Our panelists are Jackie Goldberg; Chicano liberation, environmental campaigner and author Bill Gallegos and Dr. Gerald Horne.

Could you be overlooking investment opportunities in Asia? What's the best way to find exposure in the region? In this podcast, Richard Edgar, Editor in Chief, talks to Fidelity’s Gary Monaghan, Hong Kong-based Investment Director for Equity, and Luc Froehlich, Head of Investment Directing for Asian Fixed Income, about who is putting their money where in Asia - and it might not be what you expect. They also discuss the recent addition of Chinese mainland listed stocks to the MSCI flagship emerging markets index and why it’s a game changer for investors.---This podcast is for investment professionals only and should not be relied on by private investors. This podcast is provided for information purposes only and is intended only for the person or entity to which it is sent or downloaded by. It must not be reproduced or circulated to any other party without prior permission of Fidelity. Fidelity Personal Investing does not give personal recommendations. The value of investments can go down as well as up so you may get back less than you invest. For other important legal notices please see our website.   Transcript  Richard Edgar: Why should I reconsider my allocation to Asia? That’s the question Fidelity answers. In this podcast we explore the very latest in the investment world in Asia, challenge some received wisdom, and find out who is putting money where in the region - and it might not be what you expect. I’m joined here in our Hong Kong studio by two investment directors and experts on the region: Luc Froehlich from fixed income and Gary Monaghan who covers equities. Welcome to you both. We’re recording this just after the announcement of which Chinese mainland listed stocks are to be included in the MSCI flagship emerging markets index - that’s a benchmark for over a trillion and a half dollars’ worth of assets. Gary, is this a game changer for the region as well as for China? Gary Monaghan: It is, in that Chinese mainland shares can no longer be ignored. I think it’s fair to say that if we if we consider where investors have been putting their money for the last 10 years, or even longer than that, it’s been very easy to ignore the mainland because it's not in the index. Suddenly they move into the index and you can no longer ignore it. So in that sense definitely it is a game changer. And what it also means for asset manufacturers - if you like, the likes of Fidelity - is that if you haven’t already been looking at A shares you’re going to have to start doing that and it's not an easy task. The companies generally report in Mandarin. The company reports will be written in Mandarin as well. So you need to get your analysts in place in order to do that and it’s not an easy task. Richard Edgar: Well I’m sure you’ve been brushing up your own Mandarin, Gary. But nobody is denying that is one of the greatest hurdles to investing in China: that the companies are of course reporting in their own native tongue. So you’ve got to be able to master that. How do we cope with it? Gary Monaghan: Quite simply, there is no substitute for having people on the ground. So we’ve got analysts here in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai as well, who speak the language and go meet the companies face to face. Richard Edgar: Luc, in the fixed income world you must be fed up with the attention that your equities colleagues are getting with all this MSCI A share index excitement, but is there a halo effect of raising the profile of investing in the region in all asset classes as a result of all this? Luc Froehlich: Well Richard, I’m actually not fed up. We have also a little revolution going on. Actually a few weeks ago the Bloomberg Barclays index announced that they were also going to include China onshore in their own index. So this is causing a little revolution in our bond markets too. As Gary mentioned, it is definitely attracting more attention toward the onshore market in China. The inclusion is going to lead a lot of the benchmark followers - which is a large amount of institutional money - to direct a bit more attention toward the onshore bond market. So we are talking about 5 per cent in this Bloomberg Barclays index - 5 per cent for China onshore. It’s not very large. If you compare this to the size of the China onshore bond market, which is about 12 trillion US dollars, it’s a drop, but it’s a beginning. Gary Monaghan: And I was going to add to that - what we’ve seen in the last 12 months is equities have done a very good marketing job in terms of talking about MSCI including A shares. And when we go to meet clients the questions are always directed towards the equity world. And it seems to me that it’s often not ignored but not well known that this is happening in the fixed income space as well. And that's something which I think is quite important because it's not just equity money coming into the mainland but the fixed income money as well, which is probably on the whole a bigger wall of cash. [Skip to here] Richard Edgar: How are their clients changing? Who is putting money into China? Is that changing? Luc Froehlich: On the fixed income side, if you look at the bond market, the main players are still institutional money. If you look at the overall China onshore bond market, overall we have about less than 2 per cent of foreign ownership. And if you look at the composition of this ownership it’s mostly institutional clients like central banks, sovereign wealth funds. The retail investors should come, but later on. Richard Edgar: The message hasn’t reached that far yet. Or is it confidence - a lack of confidence? Luc Froehlich: It’s simply a different stage of development of the market. You would typically see first the institutional money going there - they have more resources to analyse the market and following that the retail investors. Gary Monaghan: Yes, it’s exactly the same really for the equity space in that the key that unlocked the A share market for investors was Stock Connect. And that is really something that institutions can use and it’s not that easy for the retail guy to do that unless they invest in companies like ourselves. Richard Edgar: And thinking about the questions that these institutional clients are asking you both - how have they changed over the past couple of years? Gary Monaghan: Much more receptive I think to A shares. Before it was very easy to ignore because it was never in the benchmark. Also you could pretty much say, “We don’t know the companies very well. There’s corporate governance issues…” and then you could just ignore the entire market. But don’t forget the market itself. If you look at Shanghai and Shenzhen, they’ve got a market cap of about 7.5 trillion. Compare that to Tokyo, which is 6.8 trillion. So the mainland is actually a bigger market than Japan. So you can’t ignore it. But people were because of the point that they were not in the index. Luc Froehlich: We see a similar development on the fixed income side. I’ve been in Asia for the past seven years and what I would say is we are entering the third phase. The first phase was going to Europe, meeting some international investors, and the question was, “Why? Why would I put my money in Asia and specifically in China?” A few years after that the question was actually, “Can you give me a positive argument for me to invest in Asia or in China?” Because they wanted to convince their investment board to start putting money in China and in Asia. And now we are entering the third stage and third stage is, “How? How do I do that?” [Skip to here] Richard Edgar: Gary, let’s talk a little bit more detail now about the MSCI. It’s about to push huge companies - some still unknown abroad - onto the world stage. What impact is that going to have on their business? Gary Monaghan: Well first of all you should see more, let’s say foreign institutional investors on the shareholder register, which can bring some more questions. So you tend to get maybe a little bit more activist type investors and particularly a greater focus on ESG which as you know is a key theme at the moment. Richard Edgar: And something that management teams perhaps until now have not had to concern themselves with. Gary Monaghan: Not so much. I mean it is a growing theme globally anyway so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to any company. But as you get more international investors on the shareholder register do expect to see a lot more focus on ESG, corporate governance, and just general questioning around what’s going on with the business and the direction it is heading. Richard Edgar: What are they going to do with the money that this investment represents? Gary Monaghan: Well hopefully the good companies will get a greater percentage of the cash that comes in. Particularly if you think of us as an active manager we can choose the businesses that we invest in. So hopefully the better companies get more cash which they can then reinvest in the business, at hopefully greater rates of return. Luc Froehlich: One of the comments that I frequently hear from international investors when I tell them, “Hey, look at this market, it’s growing so fast.” I often hear, “Well, that means the companies are just piling up more debts. So actually from a risk point of view this is not a good thing.” It’s actually not really the case. It also has to do with the stage of evolution of the company. Most of the companies in Asia, in particular in China, have been extremely reliant on the banking system - using loans to finance their working capital or their expansion. Now if you continue evolving, becoming more sophisticated, you need a larger amount of capital which the bank cannot provide you. So you need to go to the capital markets. The other thing is that the more sophisticated you become, the more diverse you want to your sources of funding to be. That’s also a motivation for these companies to come in to the Asian US dollar bond market or international market. So it’s not necessarily the same company issuing more debt, it’s actually more companies. And we see that every month you have a maiden issuer - a new name coming on the market. It requires a lot of research power, but at the same time that’s significantly increasing the diversification potential in our space. Gary Monaghan: So if we’re thinking about, let’s say away from the very mega cap companies in the A share market, do you see them starting to use fixed income markets? Because I’m assuming a lot of the smaller companies don’t really have much experience there. Are we seeing that happen more and more, do you think? Luc Froehlich: The challenge that these companies have at the moment is twofold. Firstly, for smaller companies they tend to be higher risk, more in the high yield space, and in China onshore there is not yet a high yield market. Most of the high yield companies that you’d find are actually fallen angels. That’s the first thing. The second thing is that at the moment, if you see these little names trying to issue on the US dollar bond market, they would have to pay a yield that would be so high - just to make their offer palatable - that it would not make sense for them. So it is going to take time for the small guys to come on this market. [Skip to here] Richard Edgar: Gary, you mentioned active management but I wonder whether the inclusion in an index heralds the decline of active in China because now investors can park their cash in a fund that tracks that index, get the exposure and get the diversification, for example that China offers, but they can do it very cheaply. Gary Monaghan: First of all, what you have to remember: the inclusion at the moment is what they call a 5 per cent inclusion rate. So effectively they’re there capping the size of the Chinese stocks to only 5 per cent of their true size. And there’s only 234 that are moving into the index. There’s about 4,000 to 4,500 listed companies. To be frank, a big chunk of those are relatively uninvestable for investors like ourselves because of liquidity constraints and such. But there is a lot of companies which are not in the index for a start, so active managers can look beyond the boundaries of the index, which creates alpha hopefully if you get your stock call right. Luc Froehlich: This is actually another question that I frequently get: “Why would I use active management to invest in a market like China onshore?” I’m very open about the use of passive investment in certain markets - highly developed, efficient markets - it can make a lot of sense, especially as a compliment to an active strategy. Now if you look at specifically the China onshore bond market, one of the big challenges there is to properly assess the credit risk of issuers. Onshore, they have a different rating system; the local rating agency only use three ratings - AAA, AA, A - and effectively it’s only a relatively recent trend where we see differentiation in the credit spreads of the different rating groups So the challenge if you are an international investor and you try to follow those ratings, especially if you are doing it passively, is you are just going to invest randomly and you don’t know which are the credits - the spread of which are going to widen and the ones that are going to tighten. So it is really a market where active management makes a lot of sense. Richard Edgar: Much less diversification in terms of the official rating but your point is that there is diversification in the reality of how companies are being managed and the risk they represent. Luc Froehlich: Absolutely. It is a normal market but the ratings don’t necessarily reflect this reality. [Skip to here] Gary Monaghan: If you’re investing with active management you can choose the company managements you believe are working on your behalf as a shareholder. So don’t forget that if you are investing in passive, particularly in China where there’s a great deal of state owned enterprises (SOEs), you’re embracing certain risks that maybe you’re not aware of. Particularly if a large chunk of your passive market is a state owned enterprise, you are investing in companies where you don’t really have a say in what’s going on. And the management is generally government driven somewhat and they can be called upon to do national service and sometimes that leads to poor capital allocation. Richard Edgar: So in other words, the company is being asked or told to behave in a way that suits the country rather than shareholders. Gary Monaghan: So I could be a state owned bank and Luc may be coming up with the best new idea we've ever seen but you happen to be an industry that employs 2 million people and the government may say to me, “Well, you’ve got 500 million dollars, you’ve got to give it to Richard because they’re keeping two million people employed,” whereas really if I'm thinking from a shareholder perspective and future growth I should be giving that money to Luc and then he can create incredible returns and that’s the industry of the future. So without really realising it sometimes in passive you’re putting money to companies where you don’t have the greatest control and there can be some misallocation of capital. Richard Edgar: And what about the governance in normal companies that have a normal structure - or one that we’re more familiar with perhaps than some state owned enterprises? What about the management priorities there? Is that different, or is there a development that has yet to happen in some of those companies? Gary Monaghan: One thing when people talk about China - and this is actually true for Asia, it’s not just a China story - people will say, “Oh, corporate governance is poor.” I think we have to think about what we mean by that. Actually quite often, particularly when you’re meeting companies that are not the mega caps who’ve already got experience, the company will be owned majority by the founder and a couple of his friends, let's say, and they've never really had to deal with shareholders before. So it’s not that they’re cowboys and they’re going to run off with your money and they have fraudulent accounting, that’s not true at all. It’s just that they haven’t had to deal with the expectations of shareholders. That’s not bad corporate governance it’s just inexperienced corporate governance. Richard Edgar: So do we engage then with companies like that? That’s a large part of what Fidelity investment professionals talk about externally. So what are the conversations like? Gary Monaghan: There’s no other substitute to having your feet on the ground and going to talk to them. Whether that’s through the analysts, the portfolio management team, or quite often for equity capital markets team whose role is corporate engagement to discuss some of the things that we hold dear from our investment perspective. And discuss things that we will vote on and talk about. Luc Froehlich: That’s a very important point and it’s something that’s sometimes misinterpreted outside of Asia. Effectively, if you look at large or even small Asian companies, the ownership is usually more concentrated. It’s usual to have the founder who is the chairman who is the CEO. There is nothing really wrong about that. But to some extent it also explains the explosion of the bond market in Asia. If you look back in 2010 when the European bank started pulling out of Asia, we saw a lot of these issuers coming on the market. They effectively had to change their mentality, show more to investors. If you issue a bond and you want to get it rated you need to disclose quite a lot of information, like when you list a company. This has really helped to improve the governance of the companies that we cover. [Skip to here] Richard Edgar: So these are still emerging. There’s some way to go still, but a lot of development has already happened. Luc Froehlich: Yes. I would just be careful with the term “emerging” because it’s a slightly different topic. But one of the things that I usually struggle with investors that are not necessarily familiar with the Asian space is that Asia gets put in the same bucket as emerging markets. And it leads people to say, “Oh, Asia is so expensive, look at LatAm - you get much better yield, much better returns etc.” You are not comparing apples with apples. The reality is that when you invest - I’ll focus on the fixed income side - in Asia, you invest in about 16 different markets. Richard Edgar: And some of them are very developed. Luc Froehlich: Some of them are highly developed. If you look at countries like Hong Kong or Singapore, they have a very high level of development. If you look at the GDP per capita of Singapore, it’s actually higher than the GDP per capita of Germany. My point is that it’s a little bit dangerous to talk about “emerging” because we are talking of a good mix between developed and emerging economies. Richard Edgar: You make a really interesting point because people are beginning to shift from emerging market debt to Asia for precisely this sort of reason. That you change the risk profile. There is the diversification away from other debt markets but you are lowering the risk perhaps that goes along side that. Luc Froehlich: I don’t know if we’re lowering the risk. I think there is more awareness for what Asia has to offer. Until recently, when people were looking at Asia they were mostly looking at the yield that you can get - this chase for yield. And effectively, if you look at the investment that you can make in the bond market in Asia, you would get a much higher yield than you get in Europe you would get a similar yield as you get in the US but for lower duration. It’s a very attractive proposition just in terms of a risk profile. Then people also start looking at the different sectors where you can invest in. If you focus on the Asian US dollar bond market, it’s a market that has grown by about 20 per cent on an annual basis every year over the past 10 years. And this has led also to the emergence of new sectors. A few years ago, if you wanted to bet on the consumption of gaming you would have had one or two names. Now you have a real sector. So what people are seeing is not only about yield it’s about diversifying their portfolio into different industries. [Skip to here] Richard Edgar: And the types of outcomes that people are looking for has moved on as well, Gary. Asia isn’t just about growth now. Gary Monaghan: No. There are other factors that we see as being quite interesting within the region. For example dividend. It often shocks people to think of Asia as a dividend market but if you look in markets like Thailand where the yield currently is around 2.7 per cent, Taiwan where it’s above 3.5 per cent. We’ve got markets - as Luc said it’s diversification - that offer different things for different types of investors. And actually someone was saying to me yesterday that they’d read a study that one of the key drivers for share price return and share price capital growth is an increase in dividend within the Asia region. So it’s telling you that there are other factors other than growth. But of course to grow your dividend you generally have to grow your business and grow your cash flow. So it is linked but there are other factors which we find quite interesting. Richard Edgar: Luc, when investors put their money into Asian fixed income what exactly is it that they’re buying? Luc Froehlich: One point that we’ve touched is this good balance between developed markets and emerging markets. I couldn’t stress enough this point. Besides this, what they’re also buying is diversification, lower correlation with other markets. We started by talking about the China onshore bond market. Again a lot of people are looking at this market because it offers slightly higher yield than other markets. But from my point of view what is the main benefit - especially in a market where a lot of people talk about stretched valuations, are scared about volatility - what China onshore is providing you with is an asset class which has close to zero correlation with other asset classes. So you tell me what it is better in your portfolio in terms of diversification. I think this is really what institutional investors are more and more looking for. They go beyond the yield and look at the diversification potential. [Skip to here] Gary Monaghan: And I think apart from that, [for] a bigger picture type of view, buying Asia and particularly the equity market is you’re buying a future. New businesses are developing in the region which don't exist anywhere else in the world. Tencent is a great example. This is a platform through their WeChat platform that has multiple functions that don’t really exist in the west. And western companies will look in and say, “Wow, I wish we could do that.” So you’re investing in the future. You’re investing in the future growth as well. So just to throw out some stats: we’ve got 4.5 billion people in the region which is about 60 per cent of the global population; 35 per cent of the global GDP. Yet that is growing faster than most places in the world. So you’re looking at places like Indonesia - 5 per cent plus GDP growth, China - 6.5 per cent, India - around 7 per cent growth. So that 35 per cent of GDP, which should grow over time if we continue to see the current trajectory, which we don’t think will slow down. Richard Edgar: There seems to be no reason to see a change in Europe or the States at the moment. Gary Monaghan: We do expect GDP to continue growing at the rates that we’ve been seeing. Yet at the same point in time, Asia ex Japan is only 4.5 per cent of the global equity index. Richard Edgar: So there’s an enormous mismatch there. I know it’s the same in fixed income as well, that the proportions that are allocated to Asia are much smaller than they ought to be on that measure. There are perhaps reasons for that though. We’re coming to the end, so after an inspiring discussion perhaps on the good reasons for investing in Asia, what are the things that investors need to watch out for? What are the potential downsides? Because you can’t just plough in. Luc Froehlich: The traditional risk that is seen in markets like Asia, is the higher volatility. This is typically what people would tell you - that in a period of uncertainty you’re going to see much higher volatility in emerging markets, including Asia. It’s actually not been the case. If you go back to the Brexit referendum vote or the Trump election what we’ve seen actually is that the Asian US dollar bond market, especially on the investment grade side, has been a safe haven. Because you are able to shift money into an environment which is pretty well sheltered from the rest of the world and where your opportunity costs are actually not high at all. Richard Edgar: It’s an amazing turn of events. Gary? Gary Monaghan: It is. And alongside that increased volatility I must say that there is generally greater retail participation in some markets which does sort of create more churn. And so therefore you can be on the wrong side of that. So there’s an element of risk there. But also one of the things which I mentioned earlier: there’s a lot of state owned enterprises in the region and they are a big chunk of the market and if you are a passive investor in particular you are taking on state owned enterprise risk which is you don’t always know what’s happening with the capital that the company has. So there are elements of risk that you have to be aware of. Therefore going back to the point of why active - that’s one of the key selling points for active in the region is you try and avoid those areas. Not all SOEs are bad, I want to say that, but there is a risk of capital misallocation. Richard Edgar: Luc? [Skip to here] Luc Froehlich: So we are going hear, probably over the next few months if not years, about more default in China. This is already making the headlines of all or most of the national newspapers. The reality - the way we see it from on the ground - is it’s a positive development. It’s a positive development in the sense that it improves the capital allocation. The bad companies that are piling [up] debt, who are just doing M&A in an inconsiderate way - they are going to be sanctioned. The government is stepping away and saying, “Look, investors, you need to realise the risk that you are taking.” So it is beneficial for bourse companies because it helps them allocate capital properly. If you’re a good company you should pay less for your funding. And it’s good for investors because now when you put your money in the company you know that you’re going to be compensated for the risk that you’re taking. Richard Edgar: So it’s a more efficient market that is maturing and that brings with it benefits. Gary Monaghan: And one other risk to think about is that you are taking on institutional risk and by that I mean that you’re still seeing some developments within the regulatory environment. It could even be legal fields, in some cases governments - Thailand is a great example - where we’re going to see some elections, the first elections for a number of years, next year. So there are those risks as well that you’re embracing when you’re looking at the region. But again you just need to be very selective. Richard Edgar: So plenty of opportunity but go in with your eyes open is perhaps the best way to summarise it all. Let me thank you both: Gary Monaghan and Luc Froehlich for joining me.

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In this episode, we bring you a recording of our recent event with Dr. Zhang Zhexin, research fellow at the Center for Asia Pacific Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and visiting fellow at CSIS. The title of his talk is China’s Pursuit of a New Asia Pacific Security Architecture and Implications for US-China Relations. Amid growing tensions over territorial disputes and increasingly confrontational security postures, Chinese leaders have been advocating for a new Asia Pacific security architecture. What exactly is this architecture? Does it symbolise China’s growing ambition for regional hegemony? Or is it ultimately a response to America’s rebalance to Asia? What is China’s vision of such an architecture and how is China going to achieve it? What does this mean for US-China relations? This talk is longer than our typical podcast, clocking in at about an hour, but it is well worth the listen.

Speakers: Julia Newton-Howes, Chief Executive, CARE Australia; Eun Mee Kim, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of International Studies and Director, Institute for Development and Human Security, Ewha Womans University; Ye Jiang, Director of the Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS); Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Anthea Mulakala, Asia Foundation (chair). Are the new Sustainable Development Goals relevant for Asia? What if anything will they mean for domestic and development cooperation policies and practices of the Asian powers, such as China, Korea and Indonesia? What difference, if any, will the SDGs make for Asia?

support this podcast, donate todayThis week Eric welcomes political commentators Margaret Kimberley and Sukant Chandan to the program. First, Eric chats with Margaret Kimberley, editor and columnist at Black Agenda Report about the growth of #BlackLivesMatter, the controversy surrounding the confrontation with Bernie Sanders and its aftermath, and the importance of the movement's dissociation from the Democratic Party. They also touch on the situation in Ferguson and the necessity of incorporating a critique of imperialism into the #BlackLivesMatter movement. In the second part of the show, Eric sits down with political commentator and organizer Sukant Chandan to deconstruct the situation in Libya, as well as the general state of imperialism in Africa and Asia: What are its tactics? How have they shifted? How do we move forward in opposing it? Eric and Sukant take on the issues of African "migrants," the spread of death squads, and the importance of creating unity among imperialism's victims around the world. Intro and outtro provided by David Vest. Musical interlude by Ali Farka Touré.

support this podcast, donate today This week Eric welcomes political commentators Margaret Kimberley and Sukant Chandan to the program. First, Eric chats with Margaret Kimberley, editor and columnist at Black Agenda Report about the growth of #BlackLivesMatter, the controversy surrounding the confrontation with Bernie Sanders and its aftermath, and the importance of the movement's dissociation from the Democratic Party. They also touch on the situation in Ferguson and the necessity of incorporating a critique of imperialism into the #BlackLivesMatter movement. In the second part of the show, Eric sits down with political commentator and organizer Sukant Chandan to deconstruct the situation in Libya, as well as the general state of imperialism in Africa and Asia: What are its tactics? How have they shifted? How do we move forward in opposing it? Eric and Sukant take on the issues of African "migrants," the spread of death squads, and the importance of creating unity among imperialism's victims around the world. Intro and outtro provided by David Vest. Musical interlude by Ali Farka Touré. More The post Margaret Kimberley & Sukant Chandan: Episode 16 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

Curating in Asia | Conference 09.12.2011 – 10.12.2011 The conference Curating in Asia follows up a workshop in cooperation with and at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong in 2008. At that time, museum issues were the focus in the context of the ongoing project GAM – Global Art and the Museum, which was initiated at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2006. With the conference we would like to address the issue of the complex phenomenon of art curating in Asia, which involves various institutions or even creates an art context, which before had not existed. Questions such as how does art curating vary in different countries of Asia? What is the role of the curator when an infrastructure for art does not yet exist? In what way differ the roles of critics and artists when acting as curator? Is art curating sometimes just another way of art making? /// Das Symposium »Curating in Asia« setzt einen Workshop fort, der am Goethe-Institut Hong Kong im Rahmen des Projektes GAM - Global Art and the Museum in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut 2008 stattfand. Während der Fokus dieses Workshops auf Museumsfragen gerichtet war, wird sich »Curating in Asia« mit den komplexen Problemen des Kuratierens in Asien beschäftigen, wobei verschiedene Institutionen involviert sind oder oft ein Kunstkontext vorher nicht existierte. Im Vordergrund stehen Fragen wie: Wie unterscheidet sich die Auffassung vom Kuratieren in den unterschiedlichen Ländern? Welche Rolle spielen der Kurator oder die Kuratorin, wenn es noch keine Infrastruktur für Kunst gibt? Ist Kuratieren eine andere Art der Kunstproduktion?

Curating in Asia | Conference 09.12.2011 – 10.12.2011 The conference Curating in Asia follows up a workshop in cooperation with and at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong in 2008. At that time, museum issues were the focus in the context of the ongoing project GAM – Global Art and the Museum, which was initiated at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2006. With the conference we would like to address the issue of the complex phenomenon of art curating in Asia, which involves various institutions or even creates an art context, which before had not existed. Questions such as how does art curating vary in different countries of Asia? What is the role of the curator when an infrastructure for art does not yet exist? In what way differ the roles of critics and artists when acting as curator? Is art curating sometimes just another way of art making? /// Das Symposium »Curating in Asia« setzt einen Workshop fort, der am Goethe-Institut Hong Kong im Rahmen des Projektes GAM - Global Art and the Museum in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut 2008 stattfand. Während der Fokus dieses Workshops auf Museumsfragen gerichtet war, wird sich »Curating in Asia« mit den komplexen Problemen des Kuratierens in Asien beschäftigen, wobei verschiedene Institutionen involviert sind oder oft ein Kunstkontext vorher nicht existierte. Im Vordergrund stehen Fragen wie: Wie unterscheidet sich die Auffassung vom Kuratieren in den unterschiedlichen Ländern? Welche Rolle spielen der Kurator oder die Kuratorin, wenn es noch keine Infrastruktur für Kunst gibt? Ist Kuratieren eine andere Art der Kunstproduktion?

Curating in Asia | Conference 09.12.2011 – 10.12.2011 The conference Curating in Asia follows up a workshop in cooperation with and at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong in 2008. At that time, museum issues were the focus in the context of the ongoing project GAM – Global Art and the Museum, which was initiated at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2006. With the conference we would like to address the issue of the complex phenomenon of art curating in Asia, which involves various institutions or even creates an art context, which before had not existed. Questions such as how does art curating vary in different countries of Asia? What is the role of the curator when an infrastructure for art does not yet exist? In what way differ the roles of critics and artists when acting as curator? Is art curating sometimes just another way of art making? /// Das Symposium »Curating in Asia« setzt einen Workshop fort, der am Goethe-Institut Hong Kong im Rahmen des Projektes GAM - Global Art and the Museum in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut 2008 stattfand. Während der Fokus dieses Workshops auf Museumsfragen gerichtet war, wird sich »Curating in Asia« mit den komplexen Problemen des Kuratierens in Asien beschäftigen, wobei verschiedene Institutionen involviert sind oder oft ein Kunstkontext vorher nicht existierte. Im Vordergrund stehen Fragen wie: Wie unterscheidet sich die Auffassung vom Kuratieren in den unterschiedlichen Ländern? Welche Rolle spielen der Kurator oder die Kuratorin, wenn es noch keine Infrastruktur für Kunst gibt? Ist Kuratieren eine andere Art der Kunstproduktion?

Curating in Asia | Conference 09.12.2011 – 10.12.2011 The conference Curating in Asia follows up a workshop in cooperation with and at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong in 2008. At that time, museum issues were the focus in the context of the ongoing project GAM – Global Art and the Museum, which was initiated at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2006. With the conference we would like to address the issue of the complex phenomenon of art curating in Asia, which involves various institutions or even creates an art context, which before had not existed. Questions such as how does art curating vary in different countries of Asia? What is the role of the curator when an infrastructure for art does not yet exist? In what way differ the roles of critics and artists when acting as curator? Is art curating sometimes just another way of art making? /// Das Symposium »Curating in Asia« setzt einen Workshop fort, der am Goethe-Institut Hong Kong im Rahmen des Projektes GAM - Global Art and the Museum in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut 2008 stattfand. Während der Fokus dieses Workshops auf Museumsfragen gerichtet war, wird sich »Curating in Asia« mit den komplexen Problemen des Kuratierens in Asien beschäftigen, wobei verschiedene Institutionen involviert sind oder oft ein Kunstkontext vorher nicht existierte. Im Vordergrund stehen Fragen wie: Wie unterscheidet sich die Auffassung vom Kuratieren in den unterschiedlichen Ländern? Welche Rolle spielen der Kurator oder die Kuratorin, wenn es noch keine Infrastruktur für Kunst gibt? Ist Kuratieren eine andere Art der Kunstproduktion?

Curating in Asia | Conference 09.12.2011 – 10.12.2011 The conference Curating in Asia follows up a workshop in cooperation with and at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong in 2008. At that time, museum issues were the focus in the context of the ongoing project GAM – Global Art and the Museum, which was initiated at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2006. With the conference we would like to address the issue of the complex phenomenon of art curating in Asia, which involves various institutions or even creates an art context, which before had not existed. Questions such as how does art curating vary in different countries of Asia? What is the role of the curator when an infrastructure for art does not yet exist? In what way differ the roles of critics and artists when acting as curator? Is art curating sometimes just another way of art making? /// Das Symposium »Curating in Asia« setzt einen Workshop fort, der am Goethe-Institut Hong Kong im Rahmen des Projektes GAM - Global Art and the Museum in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut 2008 stattfand. Während der Fokus dieses Workshops auf Museumsfragen gerichtet war, wird sich »Curating in Asia« mit den komplexen Problemen des Kuratierens in Asien beschäftigen, wobei verschiedene Institutionen involviert sind oder oft ein Kunstkontext vorher nicht existierte. Im Vordergrund stehen Fragen wie: Wie unterscheidet sich die Auffassung vom Kuratieren in den unterschiedlichen Ländern? Welche Rolle spielen der Kurator oder die Kuratorin, wenn es noch keine Infrastruktur für Kunst gibt? Ist Kuratieren eine andere Art der Kunstproduktion?

Curating in Asia | Conference 09.12.2011 – 10.12.2011 The conference Curating in Asia follows up a workshop in cooperation with and at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong in 2008. At that time, museum issues were the focus in the context of the ongoing project GAM – Global Art and the Museum, which was initiated at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2006. With the conference we would like to address the issue of the complex phenomenon of art curating in Asia, which involves various institutions or even creates an art context, which before had not existed. Questions such as how does art curating vary in different countries of Asia? What is the role of the curator when an infrastructure for art does not yet exist? In what way differ the roles of critics and artists when acting as curator? Is art curating sometimes just another way of art making? /// Das Symposium »Curating in Asia« setzt einen Workshop fort, der am Goethe-Institut Hong Kong im Rahmen des Projektes GAM - Global Art and the Museum in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut 2008 stattfand. Während der Fokus dieses Workshops auf Museumsfragen gerichtet war, wird sich »Curating in Asia« mit den komplexen Problemen des Kuratierens in Asien beschäftigen, wobei verschiedene Institutionen involviert sind oder oft ein Kunstkontext vorher nicht existierte. Im Vordergrund stehen Fragen wie: Wie unterscheidet sich die Auffassung vom Kuratieren in den unterschiedlichen Ländern? Welche Rolle spielen der Kurator oder die Kuratorin, wenn es noch keine Infrastruktur für Kunst gibt? Ist Kuratieren eine andere Art der Kunstproduktion?

Curating in Asia | Conference 09.12.2011 – 10.12.2011 The conference Curating in Asia follows up a workshop in cooperation with and at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong in 2008. At that time, museum issues were the focus in the context of the ongoing project GAM – Global Art and the Museum, which was initiated at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2006. With the conference we would like to address the issue of the complex phenomenon of art curating in Asia, which involves various institutions or even creates an art context, which before had not existed. Questions such as how does art curating vary in different countries of Asia? What is the role of the curator when an infrastructure for art does not yet exist? In what way differ the roles of critics and artists when acting as curator? Is art curating sometimes just another way of art making? /// Das Symposium »Curating in Asia« setzt einen Workshop fort, der am Goethe-Institut Hong Kong im Rahmen des Projektes GAM - Global Art and the Museum in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut 2008 stattfand. Während der Fokus dieses Workshops auf Museumsfragen gerichtet war, wird sich »Curating in Asia« mit den komplexen Problemen des Kuratierens in Asien beschäftigen, wobei verschiedene Institutionen involviert sind oder oft ein Kunstkontext vorher nicht existierte. Im Vordergrund stehen Fragen wie: Wie unterscheidet sich die Auffassung vom Kuratieren in den unterschiedlichen Ländern? Welche Rolle spielen der Kurator oder die Kuratorin, wenn es noch keine Infrastruktur für Kunst gibt? Ist Kuratieren eine andere Art der Kunstproduktion?

Curating in Asia | Conference 09.12.2011 – 10.12.2011 The conference Curating in Asia follows up a workshop in cooperation with and at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong in 2008. At that time, museum issues were the focus in the context of the ongoing project GAM – Global Art and the Museum, which was initiated at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2006. With the conference we would like to address the issue of the complex phenomenon of art curating in Asia, which involves various institutions or even creates an art context, which before had not existed. Questions such as how does art curating vary in different countries of Asia? What is the role of the curator when an infrastructure for art does not yet exist? In what way differ the roles of critics and artists when acting as curator? Is art curating sometimes just another way of art making? /// Das Symposium »Curating in Asia« setzt einen Workshop fort, der am Goethe-Institut Hong Kong im Rahmen des Projektes GAM - Global Art and the Museum in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut 2008 stattfand. Während der Fokus dieses Workshops auf Museumsfragen gerichtet war, wird sich »Curating in Asia« mit den komplexen Problemen des Kuratierens in Asien beschäftigen, wobei verschiedene Institutionen involviert sind oder oft ein Kunstkontext vorher nicht existierte. Im Vordergrund stehen Fragen wie: Wie unterscheidet sich die Auffassung vom Kuratieren in den unterschiedlichen Ländern? Welche Rolle spielen der Kurator oder die Kuratorin, wenn es noch keine Infrastruktur für Kunst gibt? Ist Kuratieren eine andere Art der Kunstproduktion?

Curating in Asia | Conference 09.12.2011 – 10.12.2011 The conference Curating in Asia follows up a workshop in cooperation with and at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong in 2008. At that time, museum issues were the focus in the context of the ongoing project GAM – Global Art and the Museum, which was initiated at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2006. With the conference we would like to address the issue of the complex phenomenon of art curating in Asia, which involves various institutions or even creates an art context, which before had not existed. Questions such as how does art curating vary in different countries of Asia? What is the role of the curator when an infrastructure for art does not yet exist? In what way differ the roles of critics and artists when acting as curator? Is art curating sometimes just another way of art making? /// Das Symposium »Curating in Asia« setzt einen Workshop fort, der am Goethe-Institut Hong Kong im Rahmen des Projektes GAM - Global Art and the Museum in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut 2008 stattfand. Während der Fokus dieses Workshops auf Museumsfragen gerichtet war, wird sich »Curating in Asia« mit den komplexen Problemen des Kuratierens in Asien beschäftigen, wobei verschiedene Institutionen involviert sind oder oft ein Kunstkontext vorher nicht existierte. Im Vordergrund stehen Fragen wie: Wie unterscheidet sich die Auffassung vom Kuratieren in den unterschiedlichen Ländern? Welche Rolle spielen der Kurator oder die Kuratorin, wenn es noch keine Infrastruktur für Kunst gibt? Ist Kuratieren eine andere Art der Kunstproduktion?

Curating in Asia | Conference 09.12.2011 – 10.12.2011 The conference Curating in Asia follows up a workshop in cooperation with and at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong in 2008. At that time, museum issues were the focus in the context of the ongoing project GAM – Global Art and the Museum, which was initiated at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2006. With the conference we would like to address the issue of the complex phenomenon of art curating in Asia, which involves various institutions or even creates an art context, which before had not existed. Questions such as how does art curating vary in different countries of Asia? What is the role of the curator when an infrastructure for art does not yet exist? In what way differ the roles of critics and artists when acting as curator? Is art curating sometimes just another way of art making? /// Das Symposium »Curating in Asia« setzt einen Workshop fort, der am Goethe-Institut Hong Kong im Rahmen des Projektes GAM - Global Art and the Museum in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut 2008 stattfand. Während der Fokus dieses Workshops auf Museumsfragen gerichtet war, wird sich »Curating in Asia« mit den komplexen Problemen des Kuratierens in Asien beschäftigen, wobei verschiedene Institutionen involviert sind oder oft ein Kunstkontext vorher nicht existierte. Im Vordergrund stehen Fragen wie: Wie unterscheidet sich die Auffassung vom Kuratieren in den unterschiedlichen Ländern? Welche Rolle spielen der Kurator oder die Kuratorin, wenn es noch keine Infrastruktur für Kunst gibt? Ist Kuratieren eine andere Art der Kunstproduktion?

Cars: Clean Them or Crush Them? Kate Blumberg, Research Director,International Center for Clean Transportation Cornie Huizenga, Vice-Chair, Clean Air Initiative, Asia Center Michael O’Hare, Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Lee Schipper, Project Scientist, Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley Greg Dalton, Commonwealth Club Vice President, Moderator The number of cars in the world may double in twenty years to 2 billion if the emerging middle class in India and China get their hands on a new set of wheels. The global economic recession is causing some countries to invest in rail and other cleaner modes of transportation. At the same time, the recession prompted China to to relax regulations on autos to boost its economy. What are the consequences for global climate and quality of life in Asia? What are the alternatives for personal mobility? Will Asian cities choose the problematic western model? How can the US improve its transportation policies and technologies? Is the answer cleaner cars or fewer cars? This program was recorded at The Commonwealth Club on January 22, 2009