IPP REVIEW--author:Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim

Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim

Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim is a research fellow with International Public Policy Pte. Ltd. (IPP), and is the author of Cambodia and the Politics of Aesthetics (Routledge 2013). He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and has taught at Pannasastra University of Cambodia and the American University of Nigeria. Prior to joining IPP,he was a research fellow with the Longus Institute for Development and Strategy.

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By Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim - 25 May 2017

“My Family’s Slave” and the Scourge of Modern Slavery

Alex Tizon’s confessional essay “My Family’s Slave” documents the life and death of Eudocia Tomas Pulido, his family’s longtime domestic maid, and his childhood discovery that she was actually their household slave.

By Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim - 17 May 2017

The Global Ransomware Outbreak and the Challenge for Cybersovereignty

By Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim - 11 May 2017

The French Presidential Election and the Long War on Fake News

The Murder of Mashal Khan and its Implications for the CPEC

The recent lynching of a university student in Pakistan who had been falsely accused of blasphemy highlights the fact that terrorist and separatist violence are not the sole security threats facing the successful completion of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

By Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim - 27 Apr 2017 | 0 comments Read more...

The Xi-Trump Summit and the Two Senses of “America First”

Trump’s “America First” rhetoric described his prioritizing of US interests above those of other countries. The new sense of “America First” that was underscored by Trump’s missile strikes returns to the older understanding of the US as first among equals amid the nations of the world.

By Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim - 10 Apr 2017 | 0 comments Read more...

The Dolezal Controversy and the Possibility of Transracial Identity

To avoid bad faith, Rachel Dolezal has to accept that she is not just living the transcendence of her desired racial identity, but that her identity has been shaped by the facticity of her having undergone a radical transition from her racial lineage.

By Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim - 04 Apr 2017 | 0 comments Read more...

King Salman’s Visit Deepens Sino-Saudi Cooperation

During King Salman’s visit to Beijing, a major Sino-Saudi investment agreement worth an estimated USD 65 billion was signed and it included “a plan for the kingdom to participate in China’s Chang’e-4 moon mission and a partnership agreement for manufacturing drones.”

By Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim - 21 Mar 2017 | 0 comments Read more...

Resurgence of Violence on the China-Myanmar Border

Almost two years after a surge in violence in Myanmar’s Kokang region prompted 50,000 locals to cross the border into China and led the Tatmadaw to fire shells into China’s Yunnan province, a fresh resurgence in violence has prompted over 20,000 locals from Laukkai to flee into China.

By Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim - 14 Mar 2017 | 0 comments Read more...

The Persistence of National Memories of Trauma

In February 2017, the name of an exhibition on the Second World War had to be changed following a public outcry over their perception of the historical insensitivity of the exhibition’s name to the victims and survivors of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore.

By Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim - 02 Mar 2017 | 0 comments Read more...

Modi’s Job Creation Promise for India

During Narendra Modi’s campaign for the 2014 general elections, he promised to create 10 million jobs for India’s youth if elected. However, job creation, badly impacted by the fall in exports caused by the global economic slowdown, is now at its “lowest in seven years.”

By Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim - 20 Feb 2017 | 0 comments Read more...