Maerten Beuming

Maerten Beuming

Mar 21, 20235 min read

Too Weak to Spring? In the Steps of China's "Paw-Trail" After the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis

The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 was one of many that foreshadowed the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Arguably often overlooked by...

Maerten Beuming

Feb 8, 20236 min read

'South China Sea Nationalism' - A Political Force for Good?

Sitting during the days when the effects of decolonisation were in full swing, the late scholar, and later the Indian Ambassador to the...

Maerten Beuming

Dec 27, 20224 min read

‘Maharlika Wealth Fund’? Or the Funneling of Wealth?

The former President/Dictator of the Philippines, Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, is once heard to have said: “Of what good is...