Hong Kong: From Protest to Perdition? Where Next for One Country Two Systems?
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…
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…
An online Reading Room discussion with author Rory MacLean, hosted by Sophie Ibbotson. 7 September 2026, 17.30 BST
Christoph Baumer and Therese Weber, 1 October 2026 18:30 BST – Hosted by the Royal Asiatic Society online and in person.
Dr Adonis Li, 10 September 2026 15:00 BST Online