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Democracy, human rights and the rule of law are not a Western fixation, whatever ‘The New China Playbook’ suggests.

We are falling short on a key objective, as the latest ASER findings show, even though tech enablers could boost learning in rural India.

Beware anything that makes a superpower unpredictable

China’s rapidly aging population and increasingly rigid, autocratic political system will severely hobble the country as it stumbles towards the middle of the twenty-first century.

Professor Jane Golley presented the annual ANU China in the World lecture on Tuesday 23 August. Here is an abridged version of her lecture on the Chinese economy. The Chinese economy has long been a source of contention, with predictions of its imminent collapse pitted against portrayals of its strength and resilience. Is China’s competitive edge dying as it runs out of

Last year saw the publication of ‘Womansplaining – Navigating Activism, Politics and Modernity in Pakistan,’ a book edited by Federal Minister Sherry Rehman to which I was able to...

One problem is that the Communist Party views people not as individual human beings but as tools to be manipulated to suit party policy at different times

Dont let Taiwan fall prey to madness of war from either side of the Pacific Posted : 2021-04-08 16:59 By Tom Plate Perhaps no gloomier assessment of the China-U.S. relationship can be made than to note that, were it to sink yet another notch or two, there would be no relationship at all. Like a Japanese garden so minimalist that removing one stone might vitiate its existence, the bilateral Sino-American relationship seems unnervingly close to bouncing off rock bottom. Decades after the Cold...

Print this article The skyline of Beijing’s Central Business District rises behind people crossing a street during evening rush hour in Beijing, China, April 15, 2020. (Thomas Peter/Reuters) Let’s not forget that, amid its other abuses, the CCP maintains a rigid system of forced internal inequality. The forced encampment by the Chinese Communist Party of nearly 2 million members of minority groups in China’s western Xinjiang province is perhaps the larges...

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