May 25, 2020 | Articles
As the “New Cold War” between the United States and China threatens to escalate to an unpredictable outcome, two recent publications from Focus on the Global South authored by Walden Bello, provide an indispensable background to this dangerous conflict....
Apr 24, 2020 | Articles
The global food system has been very much front and center in the Covid 19 story. Every one, of course, is aware that hunger is closely tracking the virus as its wreaks havoc in both the global North and global South. Indeed, one can say that, unlike in East Asia,...
Apr 7, 2020 | Articles
The late Martin Khor united activists, officials, and thought leaders against trade and climate policies that plundered the Global South. Here’s how his comrades remember him. (Originally posted on fpif.org) When future students of North-South relations look back to...
Mar 27, 2020 | Articles
Originally posted on Foreign Policy in Focus The Great Recession could have killed globalization, but China emerged as the champion of a new global “connectivity.” With the coronavirus, that phase is finished. The Covid 19 pandemic is the second major crisis of...
Dec 23, 2019 | Articles
Presentation at “China in Cambodia Dialogue,” Phnom Penh, Dec 18 and 19, 2019 I would, first of all, like to thank Social Action for Community and Development, Workers’ Information Center, Focus on the Global South, and Women’s Network for Unity for inviting me to...
