A growing sense of distrust, and with it polarisation, has been sweeping across our region, and the world.  It feeds on itself. It is driven by a combination of increased distrust in government and media, a lack of shared identity, a sense of systemic unfairness, economic pessimism, and societal fears all contributing towards a more polarised society. And once divided, a polarised community makes fostering trust all the more difficult.  

In the Philippines, fear of China runs deeper than almost anywhere else in Southeast Asia – But Rodrigo duterte is trying to turn the tide