Congress The 2019 Indian General Elections: The consolidation of BJP dominance? April 16, 2019 0 Written by Wilfried Swenden. The race has started, as on 11 April 2019 approximately 900 million Indian voters were called to cast their vote in…
Burma/Myanmar Facebook, hate speech and civil society in Myanmar March 18, 2019 0 Written by Lisa Brooten. Social media have clearly provided outlets for the voices of those in many countries around the world who are frustrated by…
Activism Are social media destroying democracy in Southeast Asia? March 14, 2019 0 Written by Ross Tapsell. Recent literature has argued that social media use encourages authoritarianism. Ronald J. Deibert’s January 2019 article in Journal of Democracy argues…
Business Sanitising and scrutinising social media in Singapore – fake news or just politics? March 13, 2019 2 Written by Howard Lee and Terence Lee. Singapore seems ready to add another feather to its cap as the ‘hub capital’ of ASEAN after Facebook…
Culture and Society Book raids, Red-baiting and culture wars in the Indonesian presidential election February 21, 2019 1 Written by Michael G. Vann. On 26 December 2018, an Indonesian National Army (TNI) unit raided a book vendor in Kediri, East Java. They seized…
China Lawfare by proxy: Huawei touts “independent” legal advice by a CCP member February 14, 2019 0 This article was originally published by Sinopsis and is available here. Written by Sinopsis and Jichang Lulu. The series of warnings against Chinese technology company…
China The CCP’s model of social control goes global December 20, 2018 1 By Martin Hála and Jichang Lulu. One of the most striking aspects of Xi Jinping’s “New Era” is the rapid externalisation of systems and policies…
conflict Reconciliation in Sri Lanka November 5, 2018 1 Written by Viruben Nandakumar. Almost a decade has passed since the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka, but progress in terms of addressing…
China Defending Taiwan against China’s united front March 29, 2018 0 Written by Lauren Dickey. From the corridors of Canberra to Washington DC, the issue of Chinese influence in the domestic affairs of other countries has emerged over the last…
China Persecuted (almost) to the end: Why Liu Xiaobo should be allowed to leave China July 5, 2017 0 Written by Jackie Sheehan. The 11-year sentence imposed on Liu Xiaobo in December 2009 dismayed anyone who had followed his career as a writer and…
