China Mounting challenges for Xi October 31, 2019 0 Image Credit: Xi Jinping – London Book Fair 2018 by ActuaLitté/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Zhiqun Zhu. After the 1 October 2019 extravaganza…
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…
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…
Australia Softer talk, harder line: Australia’s China policy February 28, 2019 0 Written by Elena Collinson. Judging from the rhetoric of political leaders alone, the Australian government has in the last six months carefully modulated its tone…
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 Of kings and concentration camps: Xinjiang and Norway December 17, 2018 0 By Magnus Fiskesjö. The visit to China by King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway in October 2018 revealed the increasingly painful hypocrisy of European…
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…
