Corporate Censorship on Behalf the Chinese Communist Party
New Chinese security laws threaten freedom of speech across the globe, and Western corporations stand ready to comply.
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Why Criticising China’s Wet Markets Isn’t Racist
Being squeamish about animal welfare is better than being squeamish about criticising China over their wet markets, which many Chinese people oppose too.
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The New ‘Useful Idiots’ of China’s Hong Kong
Beijing turns to its British propagandists to confront global support for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
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The Creeping Influence of China in Southeast Asia Examined
As China implements its Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese money and immigration spreads out across Southeast Asia. We take a closer look.
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Guiyang: China’s City of the Future
To what extent can Guiyang–a relatively obscure city in south-west China– be emulated by other cities striving for a slice of the 'China dream?'
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What is Happening to China’s Uighur Minority?
The alleged interment of more than a million Uighur Muslims by the Chinese government has received scant international attention. Why is this the case?
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Will the Rise of Sinophobia Backfire on the Islamic World?
With China’s ascendancy to global superpower status, incidences of anti-Chinese sentiment are sure to increase. However, China will not remain idle. In the far West of China lies the region of Xinjiang, also referred to as East Turkestan. Xinjiang is the traditional homeland of the Uyghur people, a Turkic ethnic group with an identity, culture, […]
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China’s Escalating Repression of the Uyghurs
In recent months, China’s crackdown on the Uyghurs of northwest China’s Xinjiang province has ramped up, with Uyghur people being detained en masse. China’s heavy-handed rule over the Muslim minority Uyghurs of the Xinjiang Province in northwest China has taken a further authoritarian turn of late. In recent months, thousands of Uyghurs in the region […]
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Who’s Afraid Of Cultural Appropriation?
The online harassment of Keziah Daum for ‘cultural appropriation’ of a Chinese dress underscores the escalating cultural segregation of society. Dr Christine Louis-Dit-Sully & Courtney Hamilton ‘I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad’ – some wishful thinking from the author Lionel Shriver, at the Brisbane Writers Festival two years ago. For […]
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China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ Initiative
The Chinese Government's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative is an ambitious economic program with enormous implications for the global economic system.
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