Article on Interest - "The comparison of India with China will not go away for some time to come"

The term ‘Chindia’, short for China and India, has been around for a while.

China and India are the world’s two most populous countries and are likely to play a key role in the growth of the world’s economy over the next decade or so.

More recently, however, the mention of India in conjunction with China has focused on how India is growing faster than China, and may even displace China on the world stage. (...)

Article published in NZ Herald - Superdiversity has reached critical mass - it's New Zealand's future

When I was six years old, my Olympic Coach dad was invited by the New Zealand YMCA to be the Branch Secretary for Bryndwr YMCA, Christchurch and I migrated with him, my mother and sisters from Taiwan to Christchurch, and then Dunedin.

We became NZ citizens in 1975 and today I am Managing Partner of Chen Palmer, a director on the BNZ Board and an Adjunct Professor (University of Auckland School of Law), my eldest sister is a medical doctor who is involved extensively in NGO work in South East Asia, my second sister is a Professor at Oxford University in the UK and teaches extensively in Asia, my third sister co-ordinates the Academic Skills Centre at the University of Canterbury and my parents lecture all around the world after Dad retired from the Dunedin Teachers College and my Mum from the Dunedin City Council.

We have all married kiwis. All but one of our children was born here and we are all passionate New Zealanders. We have deep roots in this country. (.....)