The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power
Professor Kerry Brown
1 October 2024 14.00 BST
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China Rising, Latin America Swooning
Professor Chris Alden (Director of LSE IDEAS) and Professor Alvaro Mendez (Director of the LSE Global South Unit) co-authored China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics The rising fortunes of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over the last decades launched an economic and social transformation every bit as consequential as the onset of…
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Less Than a Decade to Decide What to do about Hong Kong?
Matthew Hurst is a doctoral student at the University of York researching the Sino-British negotiations over the future of Hong Kong during the 1980s and ’90s. The past can be a poor indicator of the future. Anyone looking to history books as if they were a crystal ball is likely to find themselves disappointed. In…
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China has yet to prove itself a sea power, just look at the Red Sea
Andrew Ward is a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy and is currently a Hudson Fellow at Oxford University’s Changing Character of War Centre where he is researching the early Cold War and its relevance for today’s power dynamics at sea. Building a navy is insufficient to become a sea power. By some measures, the People’s…
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Tibet’s Place in Asia’s Future: Repression, Resilience and Relevance
Dr Tsering Topgyal is a lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Birmingham Tibetans are experiencing very challenging times both inside and outside Tibet. Under Xi Jinping’s stifling authoritarianism, Tibetans inside Tibet are being subjected to an extraordinarily heavy dose of securitised assimilationism and generalised…
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Narco-Drones: Chinese Technology and the Evolving War on Drugs
Marcus Andreopoulos – Senior Research Fellow at the International Policy Assessment Group of the Asia-Pacific Foundation and Dr Sajjan M. Gohel – International Security Director at the Asia-Pacific Foundation and Chairman of NATO’s DEEP Global Threats Advisory Group. In 2021, the U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) stated that Da Jiang Innovations (DJI), the Chinese drone manufacturing company,…
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Liberty and Safety in Xinjiang – A Zero-Sum?
A panel discussion with Dr Chi Zhang, Professor James Millward and Dr Pablo Rodriguez-Merino, moderated by Martin Purbrick, 16 February 2022, 17.00 GMT
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What is Happening to Kazakhstan?
A panel discussion with Peter Frankopan, hosted jointly with The Oxus Society, 14 January 2022, 14.00
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What Is In It For Us? China’s BRI and the Middle East
Professor Anoush Ehtashami, 21 April 2021, 14.00
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MAKING THE PAST SERVE THE PRESENT: THE SILK ROAD AND CHINA’S QUEST FOR IMPERIAL REJUVENATION
DR BIJAN OMRANI, EDITOR OFÂ ASIAN AFFAIRS, THE RSAA JOURNAL, REPORTS ON THE LATEST ONLINE EXPERT DISCUSSION On 6 January, the RSAA was addressed by Eyck Freymann, a US scholar currently at Balliol College Oxford, on the Chinese presentation and ideology behind its One Belt One Road (or Belt and Road) initiative. Freymann is the author…
