Are we going through an energy transition? Robert Bryce, author of A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations, doesn't think so. He argues that the demand for oil, gas and coal is increasing and that in 2021, global hydrocarbon use grew nearly five times faster than the growth of wind and solar combined'. Is the energy transition ‘still more hype than reality' . (at 14 mins) Will internal divisions within ASEAN mean the end of the organisation as we know it? Dr Thitinan Pongsudhirak argues that issues such as ‘ China's interests in the South China Sea, Myanmar's internal conflict and Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine' are pulling ‘different ASEAN member states in different directions'.

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