Best personal
greetings. May I first wish you a restful and enjoyable summer.

• The Hyperglobalization of Trade and Its Future – Petersen Institute for International Economics (A think-piece on responses to epocal shifts in globalization and economic power) 

• The China Dream – Is it
  real and sustainable? (A power-point presentation at the Forum
  Istanbul)
• Age of the Great
  Re-balancing (An overview)
• China's Rise – Is she
  up to the task? Power dynamics of China's Rise and implications
  for the World Order (A power-point lecture at the City University
  of Hong Kong)
• The China Dream – what
  are the implications for world order and businesses (A power-point presentation at an Asian Pacific Region Conference in Beijing)
• The great re-balancing
  as China morphs into a world power (An Op-ed  in the South China
  Morning Post)
• RMB may supplant the
  greenback – should there be a strategy to contain it? (An Overview)
• How China can avoid the
  Middle Income Trap (A power-point lecture at the Zhou Enlai School of
  Government, Nankai University, Tianjin, China) 
• China's One Child Policy must be changed before
  it is too late
  (An Op-ed in
  the South China Morning Post

• Obama and Xi can
  achieve more at a Californian retreat than commonly thought (An
  Overview) 
• BRICS can bind despite
  differences (Article in The Global Analyst) 
• Premier Li Keqiang's
  visit to India (A TV panel discussion on Inside
  Story with Aljazeera English Channel)
• India angry with China's
  perceived intrusion into Daulat Baig Oldie region of Ladakh (Live TV
  interview on Times
  NOW of India)
• China and Russia are
  closer than commonly thought possible (An Overview)
• The tangled web of
  Syria (An Overview)
• Taiwan-Philippines stand-off over
  shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman (Live appearance
  on CCTV)

Africa

• The Evolution of a New Africa, China and BRICS paradigm and What
  it means for business (A power-point presentation at an Asian Pacific
  Region Conference in Beijing)

• Will Abe succeed in
  recovering Japan's lost decades and national pride? (An Overview)
• Abe trying to manage
  expectations on Japan's economy (Live on CNBC)

• Military and Security
  Developments involving the PRC, 2013 – Annual Report to Congress (An
  Overview)
• White Paper on China's Armed
  Forces (An Overview)
• Japan's East Asia
  Strategic Review 2013 (An Overview) 
  

• The explosive growth of
  China's new consumers (An Overview)
• China's 2020 consumer
  in a town you've never heard of (An Overview)
• China becomes world's
  largest e-tailing marketplace (An Overview)
• Challenges and Opportunities
  of a new era of Manufacturing in China – McKinsey (An Overview)
• China threatens
  anti-dumping duty on wines from the EU (Live on BBC World
  Service)
• A hidden agenda in the
  sudden collapse of gold prices – Institute of Political
  Economy (An Overview)  
  

China's green future

• China's Eco Cities of
  the future on YouTube (An Overview)
• China at the doorstep to
  survival in a low-carbon future and implications of a shale gas revolution
  (A power-point presentation at an Asian Pacific Region Conference in
  Beijing).