Sin-ming Shaw
Sin-ming Shaw, a former fellow at Oxford University, is an investor based in Asia and Argentina.
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2009-09-14
| A Taiwanese court recently sentenced Chen Shui-bien, Taiwan’s president from 2000 until 2008, to life imprisonment for corruption. But Chen's legacy may prove difficult to reverse, as it extended beyond criminality to ethnic divisiveness and neglect of economic development.... read |
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2009-06-08
| Joseph Yam, the head of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and a career civil servant, is retiring. Choosing his successor provides an important opportunity to send the right signal that Hong Kong stands for good public governance rather than cronyism.... read |
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2009-05-14
| For 20 years, Americans have denounced the “crony capitalism” of Asia and post-communist Russia. But the recently completed “stress tests” of US banks are but the latest indication that crony capitalists have now captured America.... read |
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2009-01-29
| Just as we obey our leaders’ orders to fight and die because we trust their judgment, we trust our careers and our money to those who run Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and other such banks, because we believe their leaders will be fair to their employees and clients, and honorable in their business practices. So now what?... read |
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2008-12-04
| In Thailand’s current crisis, history is repeating itself, for the ruling PPP is the same party, under a different name, as that formed by the ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Unless the anti-Thaksin elite can convince the rest of the country that they are serious about winning the hearts and minds of the poor, Thailand will remain on a knife edge.... read |
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2008-10-16
| Given that three-quarters of Americans disapprove of George W. Bush, and that John McCain and Sarah Palin share many of Bush's policies and values, Barack Obama should be leading in the polls by a wider margin than he is. The reason that he is not is white racism, to which the conservative media and the Republican Party have appealed in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.... read |
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2008-03-03
| If Thaksin Shinawatra wants to serve Thailand well, he should tout the virtues of Hong Kong, his recent home. Two stand out: a largely uncorrupt, efficient, transparent, and accountable government, and an open and competitive economy.... read |
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2006-11-07
| Taiwan’s Public Prosecutor has indicted the wife of President Chen Shui-bien for embezzling public funds. Chen, as a sitting president, cannot be indicted even though the prosecutor says that he has evidence to prove his guilt. But Chen’s legacy was already in tatters. ... read |
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2005-06-27
| Should Chairman Mao’s huge portrait still hang above the front gate of Tiananmen Square? Should China’s ruling party still call itself Communist? ... read |
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Hong Kong's Threat to China
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Sin-ming Shaw 
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Last month's massive demonstrations in Hong Kong, when over half a million residents poured into the streets in protest against the government of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, continues to echo. Never in Hong Kong's history has popular opposition--uniting investment bankers, street hawkers, off-duty civil servants, and artists, among others--been so loud. China's communist rulers are dithering about how to respond. ... read
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2008-10-16
| Given that three-quarters of Americans disapprove of George W. Bush, and that John McCain and Sarah Palin share many of Bush's policies and values, Barack Obama should be leading in the polls by a wider margin than he is. The reason that he is not is white racism, to which the conservative media and the Republican Party have appealed in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.... read |
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2003-08-18
| Last month's massive demonstrations in Hong Kong, when over half a million residents poured into the streets in protest against the government of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, continues to echo. Never in Hong Kong's history has popular opposition--uniting investment bankers, street hawkers, off-duty civil servants, and artists, among others--been so loud. China's communist rulers are dithering about how to respond. ... read |
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2009-09-14
| A Taiwanese court recently sentenced Chen Shui-bien, Taiwan’s president from 2000 until 2008, to life imprisonment for corruption. But Chen's legacy may prove difficult to reverse, as it extended beyond criminality to ethnic divisiveness and neglect of economic development.... read |
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2009-05-14
| For 20 years, Americans have denounced the “crony capitalism” of Asia and post-communist Russia. But the recently completed “stress tests” of US banks are but the latest indication that crony capitalists have now captured America.... read |
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2008-12-04
| In Thailand’s current crisis, history is repeating itself, for the ruling PPP is the same party, under a different name, as that formed by the ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Unless the anti-Thaksin elite can convince the rest of the country that they are serious about winning the hearts and minds of the poor, Thailand will remain on a knife edge.... read |
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2006-11-07
| Taiwan’s Public Prosecutor has indicted the wife of President Chen Shui-bien for embezzling public funds. Chen, as a sitting president, cannot be indicted even though the prosecutor says that he has evidence to prove his guilt. But Chen’s legacy was already in tatters. ... read |
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2009-01-29
| Just as we obey our leaders’ orders to fight and die because we trust their judgment, we trust our careers and our money to those who run Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and other such banks, because we believe their leaders will be fair to their employees and clients, and honorable in their business practices. So now what?... read |
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2008-10-16
| Given that three-quarters of Americans disapprove of George W. Bush, and that John McCain and Sarah Palin share many of Bush's policies and values, Barack Obama should be leading in the polls by a wider margin than he is. The reason that he is not is white racism, to which the conservative media and the Republican Party have appealed in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.... read |
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2008-03-03
| If Thaksin Shinawatra wants to serve Thailand well, he should tout the virtues of Hong Kong, his recent home. Two stand out: a largely uncorrupt, efficient, transparent, and accountable government, and an open and competitive economy.... read |
