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Chandran Nair

Chandran Nair

South China Morning Post

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The Thucydides Trap is a lie created to justify a US-China war

From Washington to Brussels and even Asia, policymakers have become obsessed with the “Thucydides Trap”, a concept born from Graham Allison’s...

19.04.2026 60

South China Morning Post

Chandran Nair

China has a worthy blueprint to improve the UN system. Why is the West ignoring it?

Many around the world will recall the striking image of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister...

18.01.2026 150

South China Morning Post

Chandran Nair

Carbon bootprints: how war is fuelling climate catastrophe

Gaza was supposed to be our nadir. A horrific, isolated eruption of warfare’s most satanic ethos – the annihilation of the other – showing its...

09.08.2025 70

South China Morning Post

Chandran Nair

Why US exceptionalism and the export of crassness are losing shallow appeal

In early May, as Roman Catholic cardinals convened for their conclave, US President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as the pope....

31.05.2025 50

South China Morning Post

Chandran Nair

The AI that Silicon Valley fears: how DeepSeek democratised innovation

The Chinese company’s open-source model proves that innovation thrives on sharing, not Western Big Tech’s hypocritical monopolisation.

23.02.2025 70

South China Morning Post

Chandran Nair