An Economist ‘book of the year’

An Economist ‘book of the year’

Posted by on Dec 5, 2014 in Book, South China Sea | No Comments

I’m very pleased to say that The Economist has listed South China Sea – the struggle for power in Asia as one of its best books of 2014. I’m honoured that it’s among such exalted company as Evan Osnos’s Age of Ambition and Louisa Lim’s People’s Republic of Amnesia.  You can read the full list of books of the […]

First review – “A splendid book”

First review – “A splendid book”

Posted by on Sep 15, 2014 in South China Sea | No Comments

A really excellent review of the book by The Economist, “Bill Hayton’s splendid book lucidly covers these disputes in all their complexity from virtually every angle—historical, legal, political, economic and strategic. A journalist with the BBC and author of a previous book on Vietnam, he tells a good yarn, even when the topic is as […]