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India’s cautious return to Afghanistan

by Jing HsiaoInternational RelationsAugust 1, 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Manoj Joshi, ORF Despite being knocked off its feet by the collapse of the Ghani government of Afghanistan in mid-August 2021, New Delhi has quickly re-established its presence in…

Zooming out on China’s trade policy

by Jing HsiaoEconomicsAugust 1, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Authors: Minquan Liu, Peking University and Yuming Cui, HITSZ As the largest goods trading nation and the second-largest economy in the world, it is not surprising that China’s recent trade…

China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East

by Jing HsiaoDevelopmentAugust 1, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Passant Mamdouh Ridwan, Fudan University The introduction of the Health Silk Road (HSR) and Digital Silk Road (DSR) in 2015 as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)…

Changing the conversation on Pacific infrastructure

by Jing HsiaoDevelopmentAugust 1, 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Melissa Conley Tyler, AP4D and Alexandre Dayant, Lowy Institute Investment in Pacific infrastructure has become an area of geopolitical competition. The landscape includes multilateral development banks, China’s Belt and…

What lies ahead for Sri Lanka?

by Jing HsiaoDevelopmentAugust 1, 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Chulanee Attanayake, NUS Once the heroes of Sri Lanka who defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Rajapaksa regime ended with former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigning from his…

Mongolia’s paradoxical education problem

by Jing HsiaoDevelopmentAugust 1, 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Orkhon Gantogtokh, University of British Columbia In 2019, Mongolia ranked 102 out of 141 countries in the Global Competitiveness Report. Its areas of weakness included the prominence of research…

Carrying the torch of Abe’s legacy

by Jing HsiaoAsian VoicesAugust 1, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Kazuhiko Togo, University of Shizuoka The assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe on 8 July 2022 was a shock for Japan, but the longest-tenured head of government after…

Can aquaculture meet China’s demand for food?

by Jing HsiaoAsian VoicesAugust 1, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Yu Sheng, Peking University China has made great efforts to meet increasing domestic food demand over the past four decades. From 1978–2021, China’s real agricultural output grew on average…

Danish woman makes fortune on OnlyFans by selling photos of her pregnancy

by Jing HsiaoBusinessJuly 27, 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Laursen became pregnant late last year and immediately began sharing photos of her growing belly on social media. The brunette, who has about 195,000 followers on Instagram, soon noticed that…

Shinzo Abe’s legacy

by Jing HsiaoPoliticsJuly 20, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU On 8 July 2022, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down while giving a campaign speech in support of candidates for the 10 July…