The China watchers from afar club
Jemimah Steinfeld reflects on China watchers increasingly not being able to return to the country and its impact on accurate reporting.
1601, 2025
0203, 2022
Moscow and Beijing telling their stories (un)well. The case of Poland
A recent study by SOAS alumna Alicja Bachulska has examined two major online media outlets responsible for promoting Chinese and Russian state-backed narratives in Poland, namely China Radio International (CRI) and Sputnik.
1402, 2022
China’s Conservative Turn on Gender Roles
SOAS alumna Ludovica Meacci comments on Xi Jinping’s renewed push to reinforce conservative gender norms as a means to serve two mutually reinforcing objectives of the CCP.
1810, 2021
China’s relations with Taliban-led Afghanistan
SOAS alumna Jacinthe Nourrit examines China’s security and economic interests in Taliban controlled Afghanistan.
2809, 2021
China’s Water Resources Management
A new book by Seungho Lee investigates water resources management and policy in China over the last two decades.
0709, 2021
China’s BRI in Israel-Palestine
SOAS alumna Jacinthe Nourrit explores the geo-economic opportunities and geopolitical uncertainties of Chinese encroachment in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
2306, 2021
Plant-based proteins: a key to achieving China’s climate commitments?
As meat consumption in China has soared, Elizabeth Frost argues that plant-based alternatives to meat could help China reduce its carbon footprint.
1404, 2021
‘Narrating the China Threat’ – a year on
Are some European think tanks pushing a ‘China Threat’ narrative? Dr Igor Rogelja questions the view that China is an existential threat to European democracy.
0704, 2021
Taiwan’s Digital Democracy: Lessons for the UK?
SOAS alumna Ruth Wetters writes that the UK could learn from the example of Taiwan’s ‘digital democracy’.
1901, 2021
A Tale of Two BRI Railroad Megaprojects in East Africa
Dr Maria Adele Carrai examines two railway megaprojects in Africa financed by China Exim Bank and built by Chinese SEOs—Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) and Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway (ADR).