Hong Kong: From Protest to Perdition? Where Next for One Country Two Systems?
Sumit Sharma Sameer is an author and host of the Ink and Insights podcast and Dr Pankaj Adhikari is a political scientist and policy advisor On 8 September 2025, Kathmandu did not look like a city resigned to political drift. Thousands of young people filled the streets, many carrying handwritten placards, others live-streaming the moment…
Dr Michael Luk is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Bryan Luk is a Programme Director at the Institute for Greater China Studies As Western leaders increasingly travel to Beijing in search of dialogue on trade, security and strategic clarity, China is once again at the centre of global attention….
A talk with British photojournalist Claire Thomas
18 June 2026 15.00 BST Online
Professor Michael Dillon is a historian and biographer specialising in the history, politics and society of China Shanghai has had an extraordinary history. The squalor and sleaze of the early twentieth century have more or less disappeared although pockets of sub-standard housing in the midst of ultra-modern high-rise buildings reflect newer manifestations of inequality. Treaty…
An online Reading Room discussion with author and journalist Joe Luc Barnes, hosted by Sophie Ibbotson.
2 June 2026, 18.00 BST
Dr Nick Miller is a Professor of Intelligence Studies at the Citadel Military College of South Carolina My doctoral research was shaped by my experience working within the US Department of Defense, where I managed portfolios related to China and North Korea. Across both cases, I encountered a persistent problem: the quality of intelligence collection…