Brunei

Abstract

The turbulence of the world has spared, as usual, the Bruneian micro-state that its government strives to preserve from the major international medias, despite some unprecedented upheavals at the Palace and the start of societal reforms such as a mandatory minimum wage. The precarious recovery of the sultanate's economic growth depends more and more on Chinese investment in downstream industries and infrastructures. Brunei nevertheless manages to remain on the razor's edge of a diplomacy of balance in an international context more and more unstable as illustrated by its position on the Ukraine’s and Gaza’s wars.