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Jose B. Collazo
Jose B. Collazo
Jose B. Collazo is a Southeast Asia analyst and project consultant at RiverPeak Group.

Cold War rhetoric was the real winner of 2021 amid shifting US-China relations, Olympic highs and lows and the rise of Southeast Asia’s fintech sector. The year, however, brought hardship to many of Afghanistan’s women and girls.

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2020 was great for Tsai-Ing Wen and Jacinda Ardern, good for e-commerce, mixed for Xi Jinping and his belt and road ambitions, bad for the WHO but absolutely the pits for Asia’s poor.

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Kim Jong-un and Xi Jinping saw their powers expand in 2017, while the Rohingya Muslims, Aung San Suu Kyi’s reputation and opposition parties across the region suffered setbacks.

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