Asian Voices

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Byoung-Hoon Lee, Chung-Ang University South Korea’s 2022 presidential race has finally reached its finishing line. The election has rightly been characterised in the media as anomalous — stained by…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Lev Nachman, Harvard University Taiwan is living in an unprecedented time. At the end of 2020, it was still one of the few places in the world not ravaged…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Authors: Don S Lee, Sungkyunkwan University and Fernando Casal Bértoa, University of Nottingham History has shaped party politics and electoral instability in Asian democracies. History remains a critical factor in…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Chunhuei Chi, Oregon State University The people of Taiwan have been living in a parallel world since June 2020, with the island recording more than 250 consecutive days without…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Jake Read, ANU At the G7 summit in June in Cornwall, participants recognised the need to defend and modernise the multilateral rules-based trade system and agreed to get behind…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Shalabh Chopra, Delhi Despite their insistence to the contrary, discussions on the informal strategic relationship between the United States, India, Japan and Australia continue to be couched in Cold War…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Hannah June Kim, University of Nebraska Omaha The 36-year-old politician Lee Jun-seok made history by becoming the main leader of the People Power Party (PPP) in South Korea last…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Richard Dyck, Tokyo Ezra Vogel, among the world’s foremost scholars of Asian studies, died on 20 December of complications during an operation. Ezra was a robust 90 years old,…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Richard Rigby, ANU The citation awarding 2020’s prestigious Taipei-based Tang Prize in Sinology to Professor Wang Gungwu records his ‘ground-breaking research on the Chinese world order, Chinese overseas, and…