Hong Kong: From Protest to Perdition? Where Next for One Country Two Systems?
Hugh Battye spent fifteen years in mainland China studying Mandarin and teaching English before earning a PhD in ethnology from Lanzhou University in 2020 This piece was first published by ChinaSource on 7 July 2026 and is republished here with permission. When, as outsiders, we come to think of “China”, we immediately (and usually unwittingly)…
Graham Hutchings is an author and Honorary Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham In 1925, Hong Kong was facing the biggest crisis in its more than 150-year history as a British colony. China was convulsed by revolution – not the comparatively gentlemanly affair that had toppled the Manchu Qing…
Jillian Schwedler is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York For an authoritarian country, Jordan sees a large number of protests that are only rarely repressed with lethal force. In Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent, I document tens of thousands of protests…
An online panel discussion with Shira Efron, Professor Alain Dieckhoff and Dr Ehud Eiran moderated by Sir Tom Phillips KCMG, 19 October 2026 at 18:30 BST
Dr Grace Yuehan Wang is A technology & innovation expert, a visiting fellow at the LSE and the author of Dragon Innovation Kimi K3, developed by Chinese technology startup Moonshot AI, was officially released on 16 July 2026. As the largest AI model to emerge from China and one that many AI experts have described…
Hugh Philpott OBE, 12 October 2026 19:00 BST at the Army and Navy Club Army. In person and members only – hosted jointly with the Iran Society