“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” I was reminded of Hunter Thompson’s line by a speech from Ravi Menon, former managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, recently in the press. “The New Geo-Economics in a Quantum World.” A speech by a distinguished economist from Singapore… that safe harbour of sensible … Read more
Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Shanghai speech opening the 2026 World AI Conference It started in New Hampshire Xi opens not in China but in America, at Dartmouth, New Hampshire, in 1956, with “a group of young scholars.” A Chinese head of state, making the most explicit bid yet for leadership of global AI governance, cedes … Read more
Which Map? This week, in Melbourne, two prime ministers looked out across the same ocean and saw two different things. Australian PM Anthony Albanese, welcoming Narendra Modi to the Australia–India Leaders’ Summit, said: “While we are separated by an ocean, we are indeed the closest of friends.” A few moments later Indian PM Narendra Modi … Read more