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Lost in Translation: COVID-19 and China’s ‘Wet Markets’

  • Associate Professor Delia Lin,

Misunderstanding about China’s ‘wet markets’ is fuelling racially and politically motivated moral judgements of the Chinese.

American Bioweapon or the ‘China Virus’? The War of Words over COVID-19

  • Melissa Conley Tyler, Tiffany Liu ,

The United States and China have been using increasingly strong rhetoric around COVID-19.

What war-related sexual violence against Japanese women in Manchuria tells us about democracy in contemporary Japan

  • Dr Mayuko Itoh,

At the end of WWII, numerous Japanese women who resided in colonised areas of Imperial Japan were subject to sexual violence.

The shrinking democratic space in India: uncivil society and an illiberal state

  • Associate Professor Sarbeswar Sahoo,

There’s been a severe crackdown on the civic space in India under PM Nahrendra Modi, which has accelerated previous trends.

Democracy activist Joshua Wong on “the Hong Kong question” in 2020

  • Cathy Harper,

What Hong Kong will look like under Chinese rule continues to unfold in 2020

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