To Understand What Xi Jinping’s Concentration Of Power Really Means, We Must Turn To...
By Marina Yue Zhang
After he secured an unprecedented third term as the leader of both Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the country’s Central Military...
Monterey Park: A Pioneering Asian American Suburb Shaken by the Tragedy of a Mass...
By James Zarsadiaz
For Americans of Asian descent, Monterey Park – a town near Los Angeles, located in the San Gabriel Valley – is a...
The Political Economy of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Growing Regional Multilateral Ties
By Kalim Siddiqui
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was founded in 1996 by the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan in order to...
A New Femininity Is Starting to Emerge in China
By Qingyue Sun
Over the course of the last century, Western beauty ideals – thinness, light skin, large breasts, large eyes, a small nose and high cheekbones...
Kissinger at 100: His Legacy Might Be Mixed but His Importance Has Been Enormous
By André Carvalho, Anurag Mishra, and Zeno Leoni
Henry Kissinger, who turns 100 on May 27, is widely regarded as one of the most influential...
China’s Population is about to Shrink for the First Time since the Great Famine...
By Dr. Xiujian Peng
The world’s biggest nation is about to shrink.
China accounts for more than one sixth of the world’s population.
Yet after four...
What Beijing’s Muted Response to Wagner Mutiny Tells Us About China-Russia Relations – And...
By Joseph Torigian
As mercenary troops bore down on Moscow on June 24, 2023, it likely wasn’t only Russian President Vladimir Putin and his governing elite in...
How the British Museum’s New Exhibition Reveals China’s Hidden Century Through Everyday Lives
By Kerry Brown
The face of the British Museum’s big summer show, China’s Hidden Century, is that of an elderly woman wearing jade earrings, dressed in...
‘I Almost Lost My Will to Live’: Preference for Sons Is Leaving Young Women...
By Chih-Ling Liu
China has a gender crisis. The country has a huge surplus of men – around 722 million compared to 690 million women in 2022. This...
Ethiopia’s Abiy Takes a Page From Russia, China in Asserting the Right to Restore...
By Mahad Darar
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed claimed on Oct. 13, 2023, that his landlocked country has a right to demand maritime access to a...
