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When geopolitics reaches the family dining table
It’s no longer just about statecraft, war and peace, but the price of the food you eat and whether you have a job.
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Food security is the area where families are most directly affected by the turbulence in geopolitics.
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It may be time to think of geopolitics as a “must include” topic in secondary school social science textbooks. What else to say, and how else to prepare the young, when it is now so much a part of your everyday life.
Anyone travelling in Malaysia over the past year could not have missed an odd drop in footfall – even during peak hours – at the dozens of outlets operated by Starbucks, an icon of American enterprise and soft power.
