Declaration for National Economic Survival and Introduction to the Expothon Lexicon 2000–2025: This text addresses humankind's most hidden yet most valuable asset, the only force directly responsible for the growth patterns of every civilisation in history. Despite its decisive role, this force as a major economic measurement has been almost absent…

“Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.”


Genghis Khan
The world is continuing to play with fire. Does that mean we will witness a global conflagration?
According to Chinese traditions, 2026 will be the Year of the Fire Horse, a constellation that only occurs once every sixty years…

Artificial Intelligence is nothing but artificial ignorance. It will never start wars, fracture nations, or run public health. That fantasy is pure nonsense. AI is not a runaway train; it is a locomotive driven by very human hands controlling the entire railway empire. It has no bio-intelligence, no beating heart, just code, brilliant code, but as…

The Urgent Call for New Economic Thinking
Western economic intellectualism deserves a grand red-carpet ceremony for its masterful performance in the theater of games of theorems. But the keys to the corner offices must now be surrendered until it can clearly articulate the five critical realities shaping the new global economy, driven by the behavior…

Introduction
It has been several months since my last contribution to RIAC, and I must begin with a small apology for the silence. The pause was necessary: I was completing my transition from serving as Chief Executive Officer of two Malaysian foundations to taking up a full-time secondment to the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the…

Introduction
It has been several months since my last contribution to RIAC, and I must begin with a small apology for the silence. The pause was necessary: I was completing my transition from serving as Chief Executive Officer of two Malaysian foundations to taking up a full-time secondment to the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the…

The physicality of work is ceding to automation and AI-centricity, and real value creation now resides in mental performance. A new global divide emerges—between explicit knowledge, curated within Ivy walls and leather-bound books shelved for antiquity, and tacit knowledge, thriving in entrepreneurial mysticism: an instinct-driven mindset to take…

A Harmonious Convergence: How Nobel Innovation Meets Entrepreneurial Mysticism
From Expothon, we extend our warm congratulations to the 2025 Nobel Prize winners in economics: Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt. They receive top marks for their insightful ideas. Mokyr's examination of history and culture for fostering innovation teams…

In recent years, there has been a marked shift in the focus of Russian foreign policy towards the African continent. In 2021 and 2023, two Russia-Africa summits were convened. The declaration of the 2023 summit speaks of foundational principles of these relations, i.e. “historical and time-tested friendly ties between the Russian Federation and…

Firstly, on the wings of the Valkyries, SMEs will soar beyond AI’s illusions. AI, at best, is brilliant software, but there is no bionic heart beating or any human intelligence breathing within, as it is as lifeless as a rock.
AI is a great technological revolution, but do not mix the stock market hype with its processing realities. AI will…

Why are the population-rich nations (PRN) conducting the global economic symphony while the knowledge-rich nations (KRN), which are primarily out of tune, seem to have lost their melodies?
What has happened over the past few decades that has allowed knowledge-rich nations, predominantly in the West, to fall behind the population-rich nations, mainly…

 The Mandatory Test for Economic Mindsets is a bold and practical solution designed to reverse the decline of 100 free economies. Its purpose is to ensure that government officials, particularly those tasked with job creation and SME development, possess the entrepreneurial expertise needed to combat the anti-job creation syndrome and the parade…