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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on relations between China and the Middle East

March 17, 2020 0

Image credit: Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by NIAID/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Zi Yang. Since its emergence in China in December 2019, COVID-19 has…

Belt and Road Initiative

Job insecurity, labour contestation and everyday resistance at the Chinese-built Lamu port site in Kenya

February 26, 2020 1

Image Credit: Image provided by the author. Written by Elisa Gambino. Approaching the berth area of the Lamu port construction site one morning, the shouts…

Asia

Rethinking the food system to address hunger, health and social equality: Notes from the northeast of India  

November 26, 2019 0

Image Credit: Dozens of tea pickers among tea bushes, Roger Burks/ Flickr ; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Sujata Dutta Hazarika I…

Asia

Targeted financial solutions to address India’s agricultural crisis

November 18, 2019 0

Image Credit: India-Onion Irrigation, IWMI Flickr Photos/Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Sourajit Aiyer. India is in a quandary. Two years of…

China

Migrant workers in the digital market: China’s platform economy

August 13, 2019 0

Written by Hong Yu Liu. Image Credit: Image provided by the author. In 2015, the Premier of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Li Keqiang…

China

Redeeming China’s sweatshops: Christianity and migrant factory workers in Shenzhen

July 31, 2019 2

Written by Quan Gao. Image Credit: Foxlink factory China by Chris/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. It has been nine years since the Foxconn suicide event in 2010, when…

conflict

Why Filipinos have come to embrace authoritarian ‘discipline’

July 3, 2019 1

Written by Wataru Kusaka. Image Credit: Rodrigo Duterte ภาพจาก by Prachatai/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. With no opposition candidates winning a single senatorial seat, President Rodrigo Duterte…

Belt and Road Initiative

The balancing act ahead: Legislative options for the China-Philippines relationship after the midterm elections

July 2, 2019 0

Written by Matthew Ordoñez. Image Credit: DSC08858 by mountain_MX/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The recently concluded 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines held on 13 May represent…

Civil Society

Reforming an ‘evil’ party-list system

July 1, 2019 0

Written by Julio C. Teehankee. Image Credit: Election Posters by David Stanley/CC; Licence: CC BY 2.0. At the end of the hotly contested 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines,…

Economic Growth

Malaysian palm oil: National pride and prejudice through the years

June 3, 2019 0

Written by Helena Varkkey. Image Credit: Palm oil plantation by Angela Sevin /Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Introduced to then-Malaya from West Africa via the Dutch East Indies…

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