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WEBINAR: Taliban Afghanistan, two months in

Two months into the Taliban take-over of Afghanistan – where are we now?

Examinations and Chinese educational politics: historical reflections on China’s recent ban on school tutoring

  • Dr Lewis Mayo and Dr Justin Tighe,

China’s ban on school tutoring may be motivated by a concept of education that emphasises the ideological transformation of society.

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.

COVID-19 has intensified existing intergenerational and gender tensions in China’s cities

  • Bin Wang & Ilan Wiesel,

Interviews illustrate how the pandemic and public health restrictions brought existing tensions to a boiling point.

Language is important in the prosecution of conflicts, particularly in the Middle East

  • Professor Yasir Suleiman,

Language provides an echo chamber for political conflict through its role as a symbol that conveys extra-linguistic meanings.

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