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COVID-19 and China’s attempts to build a health silk road to Myanmar

  • Dr Nyi Nyi Kyaw,

China’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ in Myanmar relates to China’s longer-term geo-economic and geopolitical interests.

INTRODUCTION: The contemporary challenges facing plurilingual societies

  • Associate Professor Michael Ewing,

The power structures needed to create and enforce common systems of communication can simultaneously disadvantage others.

COVID-19 underlines the importance of learning languages via emerging technologies

  • Dr Grace Yue Qi,

Language educators need to seriously take new technologies into account.

Myanmar’s human rights crisis justifies foregoing neutrality for a solidarity-based approach to humanitarianism

  • Dr Anne Décobert,

The human rights crisis in Myanmar justifies a solidarity-based approach to the provision of international aid.

Australia needs to make languages compulsory

  • Professor Joe Lo Bianco,

If Australia really wants to increase its literacy in Asian and other languages it needs to make language learning compulsory in Australian schools.

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