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Pakistan needs a multilingual education model to protect minority language groups

  • Ameer Ali and Professor Maya Khemlani David,

English and Urdu are dominant in Pakistan’s education system and other languages have been neglected or marginalised.

English language education in China is being challenged as against Chinese culture

  • Associate Professor Delia Lin,

English language education is getting increasingly political within China as US–China rivalry intensifies.

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.

Taiwan’s View of the Trump Administration

  • Melissa Conley Tyler,

Trump will be remembered positively in Taiwan as someone who forced a rethink on the terms of the relationship.

Public sentiment in China cools towards Australia

  • Assistant Professor Dan (Diane) Hu,

Two consecutive years of polling indicates that Chinese attitudes towards Australia have become less favourable.

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