While the Covid-19 pandemic has shifted attention away from Hong Kong’s fight for democratic freedoms, protests have made the city a focus of the Chinese government’s authority and stance on human rights. Recent events have …
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is urging China to ‘lead the reform of the global governance system’ and to ‘actively participate in the formulation of international rules’. Such statements suggest that we now should be able to gain …
Last month, US President Donald Trump signed into law a bill allowing him to impose sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the mass incarceration of more than one million Uyghurs and members of other largely …
One of my most vivid childhood memories was watching my city burn. In July 1967, when I was nine, my hometown of Detroit exploded in what was then the worst urban riot in American history. …
In this episode, Kelsey Munro, ASPI senior analyst, speaks to Charles Edel, senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, about the current tensions between Australia and China and the …