Institutional, measured, long-view.
Mid-Levels, Hong Kong. Senior civil servant father, Shanghai banking family on his mother's side. DBS, then Cambridge for economics, then LSE. A bulge-bracket bank in Asia 1998-2005, Hong Kong's monetary authority 2005-2009, regional weekly contributing editor and policy institute fellow 2009-2024. Wang Report 2024. Hyrox training, longevity protocols. Wife is a clinical oncologist at Queen Mary; two daughters in their late teens.
Taiwan's legislature this week passed a record NT$1.12 trillion defense budget for the year, and Reuters reported the multi-year special appropriations now push the total commitment past $1 trillion, the largest single-year defense outlay in the island's history. That figure does not land only on the Ministry of Nation…
Read full filing →The 46 officers Xi Jinping removed from National People's Congress and CPPCC seats this week lost their political standing, not their commissions. That distinction runs through the PLA's General Political Work Department, or more precisely through the officer-management bureau inside it that decides whether a stripped …
Read full filing →The People's Liberation Army's tightened patrol pattern around Taiwan's air and sea approaches this week, the layered coast guard and aircraft presence Institute for the Study of War satellite tracking places ahead of Admiral Samuel Paparo's 2030 invasion-capability estimate, has produced no matching signal from the PB…
Read full filing →The dismissal of Beijing's second-highest military officer this week lands on more than the Central Military Commission's roster. The People's Bank's Deposit Insurance Fund Management Company, capitalized at roughly 100 billion yuan and chaired since 2020 by a rotating slate of PBOC-nominated directors, has left one of…
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