Lim Teck Ghee
Lim Teck Ghee, ANU PhD graduate, is a Malaysian economic historian andpolicy analyst. He has a regular column, Another Take, in The Sun, a Malaysian daily and Oriental Daily; and is the author of Challenging the Status Quo in Malaysia, and Dark Forces Changing Malaysia (with Murray Hunter).
Recent articles by Lim Teck Ghee
3 February 2025
Trump's MAGA and the new Pax Americana
In the short period since his election, President Trump has started to tear down the edifice of western rules-based law and international order. Ironically this is the international political and economic system of which the USA has been its main beneficiary, definer and enforcer, and over which it has engaged in conflicts and wars around the world since the end of the second world war.
10 January 2025
Will 2025 bring the world a G3?
The year 2025 promises to be a tumultuous one in many parts of the world. But will the status quo remain? Will it be a case of the more things change, the more they remain the same? Will we see changes for a better or worse world? And how will Australia cope with or help shape the world order?
7 March 2024
PM Anwar Ibrahim rattles Australias cage on sinophobia and Gaza
Making the news in the mainstream western media around the world, but not in Australia which is hosting the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2024, was the forthright response from Malaysia PM Anwar Ibrahim during his press conference to a question from Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) journalist Stephen Dziedzic.
4 February 2024
Australias stake in the coming U.S. presidential election
Those following the U.S. Republican presidential race will have noted from the voter polls that the issue of foreign affairs ranks amongst the lowest or is the lowest of the priority concerns that the American public sees as critical to themselves and their country. A variety of polls held before the recently concluded nomination battles in Iowa and New Hampshire revealed that less than 10% of the supporters of the main candidates identified foreign policy as their major concern.
2 October 2023
Five Eyes spotlights the dark side of Modis India
We often advocate the promotion of a rules-based order. From time to time, respect for the UN Charteris also invoked. But for all the talk, there are still a few nations who shape the agenda and seek to define the norms. This cannot go on indefinitely. Nor will it go unchallenged. - Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India Minister of External Affairs at UN General Assembly, 26 September 2023.
22 June 2023
US strategists plan to destroy Taiwans largest chip manufacturer
Should the US go to war with China, Taiwans largest chip maker, TSMC will be the first target to be blown up, according to a strategist at the US Air Force's Air War College. Not by China, but by the US military.
3 May 2023
Can India remain Democracys poster child?
The reality is emerging that Indias democracy is not only deeply flawed, it has regressed into what the V-Dem Institute calls one of the worst autocratisers in the last 10 years.
18 April 2023
Scorched Earth: Anti-reunification forces use Taiwan to subvert China
US and British arms industry companies and their little mentioned but crucial support cast of Taiwanese military, lawmakers and government official counterparts are opposed to China-Taiwan reunification, because the current situation acts as their ATM, generating billions of dollars in profit.