From Geo to Astropolitics: How Taiwan Builds Outer Space Missions Amid Geopolitical Tensions
Yi-Ting Chang, RSAA Travel Awards 2024 recipient with guest host Sze Miller
1 October 2025, 14.00 BST Online
-
-
Online Religion in Contemporary China
Mengyuan Tian, RSAA Travel Awards 2024 recipient, with guest host Professor Astrid Nordin
9 July 2025, 14.00 BST Online -
The Invention of Everything: Joseph Needham and the Rediscovery of Chinese Science
Sean Paterson is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society living in Guangzhou In 1620, the great polymath Francis Bacon published his magnum opus, the Novum Organum. Among an early draft of the scientific method, he considered three inventions that had, in his own lifetime, turned the world upside down. ‘It is well to observe…
-
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,…
