David Dodwell
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Aug 16, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for South China Morning Post
- Top 50K sites
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- Jul 10, 2026
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Outside In | Forget the naysayers. Hong Kong’s five-year plan is the roadmap it needs (opens the original)
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The suggestions put forward during the plan’s consultation period offer grounds for optimism for a revitalised future But from my vantage point, Hong Kong is decades overdue for a long-term planning framework that can provide strategic coherence to how we optimise our future as a conduit between a radically changing China and a turbulent global economy. Recall too Hong Kong’s old colonial days. Up to 1997, the British colonial government maintained the Central Policy Unit (CPU) to answer exclusi
Outside In | Why Asia need not match West’s fear over data centre buildout (opens the original)
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The spread of data centres in Asia does not seem to have sparked the kind of protests it has in the West, but good policies are needed to ensure that remains the case Across the United States, home to 37 per cent of the world’s 10,800 or so data centres, 2026 has been awash with protests against this infrastructure buildout. On July 18 alone, 142 protests were reported across 42 states. According to Data Centre Watch, 75 US data centre projects worth US$130 billion have been blocked or delayed.
Outside In | Why Donald Trump may regret reheating his global trade war (opens the original)
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Over the coming months, efforts to China-proof supply chains are likely to drive US foreign policy. Success, however, is unlikely to follow He can’t quite walk away from the war in the Persian Gulf. Iran’s refusal to capitulate has left Trump with an awkward obligation to fight on, despite the widespread unpopularity of the conflict, even among his base, and the need to focus attention on midterm elections just four months away. Perhaps the White House has concluded that the war and its inflatio
Outside In | How AI is changing the nature of war and conflict (opens the original)
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Latest Global Peace Index reflects a world progressively less peaceful as AI enables armies to kill more people more quickly and more cheaply More than 181,000 people were killed in conflicts in 2025, with some 117 million displaced. Global military spending reached a record US$2.9 trillion. The report estimates the total economic cost of the violence at US$21.8 trillion, or 10.5 per cent of the global gross domestic product. More alarmingly still, the report predicts a steady deterioration in t
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