China Sport’s biggest challenge in China: Too much dependence or an opportunity not to be missed? January 14, 2020 0 Image credit: ‘Arsenal vs Watford’ by joshjdss/flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Simon Chadwick. During the last quarter of 2019, some of the biggest names…
BRI The Belt and Road Initiative and Xi Jinping’s foreign and domestic policy agenda October 29, 2019 1 Image Credit: Old and low vs. new and tall by Lars Plougmann/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Suisheng Zhao. The Belt and Road Initiative…
China Chinese Christianity encounters Islam along the Belt and Road Initiative July 3, 2019 0 Written by Emily Dawes. Image Credit: A Crucifix by Simon Shek/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. China’s indigenous Christian missions began in the early twentieth century with…
Asia Indonesia and the Xinjiang issue: The diplomatic options for resolving the Uyghur crisis June 21, 2019 0 Written by Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Ramadha Trivanessa Isabelle Valentine. Image Credit: Malcolm Brown/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. While many people are fortunate enough to reside in countries…
China Book Review: Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang April 8, 2019 0 Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang, by Tom Cliff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Ix+252 pp. US$90.00 (cloth), US$30.00 (paper), US$10.00 (eBook). Review…
Central Asia The presence of camps causes tension along the ‘Pivot of Asia’ February 1, 2019 0 David O’Brien The Kazakh Foreign Ministry recently announced that it had been informed by its counterpart in Beijing that China was allowing 2,000 ethnic Kazakh…
China Xinjiang and Hong Kong: the periphery playbook October 26, 2018 1 Written by Alvin Cheung. Speaking at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club on 14 August 2018, shortly before his political party was banned, Hong Kong…
China China’s decimation of Uyghur minds October 25, 2018 0 Written by Ondřej Klimeš. Academics, journalists and rights groups have recently documented the accelerating repression of the 11-million strong Uyghur population living in Xinjiang (also known…
China The Xinjiang camps as a “Stanford Prison Experiment” October 24, 2018 1 Written by Magnus Fiskesjö. The Xinjiang camps represent a dramatic escalation of a longstanding Chinese policy to colonise and dominate Xinjiang, the "New Frontier" of the Qing…
China Chess masters and poker players: ways to understand the politics of policy-making in Xinjiang October 23, 2018 0 Written by Nathan Attrill. For the People’s Republic of China (PRC), control over the western provinces has proved a major area of concern for policy-makers at…