Jing Hsiao

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Robert Ayson, Victoria University of Wellington As the first full year of Jacinda Ardern’s second term as New Zealand’s Prime Minister, 2021 began with the promise of political continuity….

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Deepa Ollapally, George Washington University Last year political and economic low points plagued Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government at home and abroad. The catastrophic second wave of COVID-19…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Greg Raymond, ANU Thailand became less free and more authoritarian in 2021, as the democracy movement felt the heavy hand of Thailand’s illiberal constraints on basic civil liberties. COVID-19…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits, Erasmus University Rotterdam In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic provided additional cover for a regressive turn in Sri Lankan politics. The consequences of economic and political crisis became…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Sujeev Shakya, Beed Management 2021 was a year of political upheaval and continued global disconnect for Nepal, but it was also a year of economic recovery. Nepal saw the…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Xunchao Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison If you access any Chinese state media or pro-state social media published in late 2021, you will be bombarded with attacks on US President…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: David Brown, California COVID-19 broke loose in Vietnam in June 2021, a year after most of East Asia. Until June, countermeasures and aggressive contact tracing had held the pandemic…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Chia Siow Yue, Singapore Institute of International Affairs After a roller-coaster year, Singapore enters 2022 with its economy, government and society all proving resilient. Singapore managed the impacts of…