Pleasure to meet German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock @ABaerbock (22/02). 2022 is an important year for Indonesia and Germany:
🔅 70th Anniversary of Indonesia-Germany diplomatic relations
🔅 Indonesia holds G20 Presidency and Germany holds G7 Presidency
Common security, common stability and common prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region must be a public good. This can only be achieved through strategic collaboration – Ret
Wahhabism has gone through three distinct transformations since its rise in the 18th century. It’s now going through a fourth one, and this phase has implications that go beyond Saudi Arabia.
My new essay, many months of work & endless interviews: https://t.co/yS5VLI2cYr
A palm oil company that had one of its permits revoked in January has continued to bulldoze rainforest near a popular birdwatching site in Indonesia's Papua province.
https://t.co/gVyvqrPuXW
In this piece Robert Kagan, who I've always thought of as the ultimate believer in US power, writes that "it is time to start imagining a world where Russia effectively controls much of Eastern Europe and China controls much of East Asia and the Western Pacific."
Very good meeting with France’s Foreign Minister @JY_LeDrian in Paris today 🇫🇷 (20/02). We discussed:
🔷 France’s support for Indonesia to be a hub for mRNA vaccine development
🔺 Overcoming trade barriers
🔹 Strategic defence coooperation
🔺 Energy transition cooperation
Private sector plays a key role in pushing forward energy transition
Met with the Vice President of Air Liquide and discussed development of carbon capture, utilisation and storage #CCUS in Indonesia (21/01)
Teared up watching this. @limweijiet was first my intern, then fellow HKU Media Law fellow, and finally human rights comrade. So proud. He’s the reason I believe in @partimuda.
More than being one of the best lawyers in MY, WJ is very simply one of the best people I know.
Putin knows nothing about economics and may have been very poorly advised on how insulated the Russian economy is. My understanding is those who know about the vulnerability are too afraid to speak…
A full page in the Washington Post today about the witch-hunt against me. Cannot thank my colleagues and publication for having my back at such a crucial time for me. I promise to keep fighting the truth @elopezgross@washingtonpost @wppressfreedom
India and Israel stress their own security every chance they have but as current events show have little interest when others’ security is at stake. Parochial and myopic policy, self-defeating in long run
Oh boy now I have thousands of Indians telling me Europe is crying about @DrSJaishankar reaction. Friends, let me tell you I am one of the extremely few people in Europe who follows Indian politics and tries to connect them. No one is crying
One of the most intriguing collections I saw in Bikaner were the 3rd/4thC late Kushan/early Gupta terracottas from Rang Mahal, near Sri Ganganagar, to the N of Bikaner
https://t.co/dQKay6TugW
The BBM Sara rally scheduled in San Jose, antique Feb 24 has been cancelled. BBM holding a rally at the evelio javier plaza caused an uproar- an insult to the memory of evelio as this was the very site where he was murdered by the Marcos goons.( Angry Antiqueño friend). 😡
From my wife, who was born in Russia: "NATO should just offer European citizenship to any Russian soldier who wants to defect. Within an hour Russia will have no army."