Archive List for Asia Squawk Box

Sri Lanka isn’t ready to take on another leader ‘from the outside’ of politics, says MP

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Harsha de Silva, economist and member of Parliament in Sri Lanka, says Sri Lankans are unlikely to want to “try out another experiment” with a leader without an established political background.

Inflation in the Philippines is ‘much different’ from that of other countries, says its central bank

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Benjamin Diokno, governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, discusses its inflation targets and its intention to hike interest rates in the second half of 2022.

China won’t use digital yuan to bypass sanctions and bail out Russia, says fintech consultant

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Richard Turrin, fintech consultant and author, says “the last thing that China wants to do with its … new baby of a currency is to get it put into the mud while in the sanction-busting game.”

The Ukraine conflict is a war ‘we cannot win militarily’ against Russia, says professor

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Alan Kuperman of the University of Texas says this is because Russian President Vladimir Putin would be willing to exercise his “escalatory trump card” of nuclear weapons, while the West would not.

Niall Ferguson says the Ukrainian resistance cannot ‘last that much longer’ against Russia’s attacks

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Niall Ferguson of the Hoover Institution says the media has encouraged a mistaken assumption that the Ukrainians can hold out.

David Roche says this is ‘the beginning of the end’ for Putin

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David Roche of Independent Strategy explains why he thinks the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a failure.

What is the SWIFT system, and what does it mean for Russia?

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What is the SWIFT system, and what does it mean for Russia? CNBC’s Will Koulouris explains.

EU’s offer of fighter jets to Ukraine signals it’s not just about sanctions: Political consultancy

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Fabrice Pothier of Rasmussen Global says the fighter jets the European Union supplies to Ukraine will have to be old Russian fighter jets and the Ukrainian air force will have to be trained on how to operate them.

Russian casualties could be the ‘turning point’ for public opinion on Putin, says think tank

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Thomas Graham of the Council on Foreign Relations says there are some indications that Russian military activities have not gone as well as planned.

Palantir co-founder: I disagree with Janet Yellen and oppose having a centralized digital dollar

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Joe Lonsdale from 8VC and co-founder of Palantir discusses the best approach for the U.S. defense industry to drive innovation and compete with China. He also shares his view on central bank digital currency.