CAMBRIDGE – There is no single future until it happens, and any effort to envision geopolitics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic must include a range of possible futures. I suggest five plausible futures in 2030, but obviously others can be imagined. The end of the globalized liberal order. The …

Political Capital is hard earned and a political party has to be careful on how it spends it. The DNT came in with a lot of political capital as a party that was a break from the bitter DPT-PDP rivalry and as one that was different from either of them …

NEW HAVEN – The US dollar has now entered the early stages of what looks to be a sharp descent. The dollar’s real effective exchange rate (REER) fell 4.3% in the four months ending in August. The decline has been even steeper as measured by other indexes, but the REER is what matters …

From day one of the COVID-19 crisis the nation has witnessed how His Majesty has led from the front in the fight against the pandemic. It is due to His Majesty’s leadership that Bhutan is one of the least affected countries in the world when it comes to the virus. …

The Bhutanese paper in numerous stories from 2014 to 2019 has been covering the two multi-parking structures built by KCR under a Public Private Partnership arrangement with the Thimphu Thromde where KCR would build the two Multi Level Car Parking (MLCP) structures and Thromde would provide it on lease for …

One major lesson from the start of COVID-19 in Bhutan from March and especially in the lockdown is that Bhutan can do a lot more to improve its food production, distribution and storage. The Agriculture Minister in a refreshing stance has admitted to the failures in the Agricultural sector on …

LONDON – Over the next 30 years, Sub-Saharan Africa’s population will double to over two billion, and its economies will industrialize. Africa’s development will therefore be critical to the world’s future stability, prosperity, and health. Given this, the continent should be receiving much more international attention. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted a …

The Health Minister said that according to technical experts the lockdown which started due to the Gelephu lady case had come at the right time as there would have been a lot of spread if it even came a week later. Bhutan was also fortunate to discover most of its …

BERLIN – The recent Republican National Convention was scandalous for many reasons – from the misuse of the White House as a campaign prop (in violation of the Hatch Act and longstanding norms) and the brazen mendacity of its speakers, to the parade of Trump family members. Amid the tawdry spectacle of …

The last three weeks has seen a ballooning of community transmission cases in Bhutan starting from some local transmission in the Mini Dry Port in Phuentsholing and then continuing with community transmission being discovered in Phuentsholing. The Ministry of Health’s technical experts may take time to come up with an …