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Asia, a vast and diverse continent, faces an intricate matrix of challenges when it comes to the issue of bioweapons. Stretching from the chilly expanses of Siberia in the north…
“It was not a place for human beings”, said Lee Ok-Seon a former comfort women. During the WWII Japan implemented ‘comfort stations’. Accordingly to the Japanese administration the ‘comfort station’…
China’s fast and remarkable economic growth over the past decades turned the country in a world leader in many industries. However, this fast development caused an increase in the emissions…
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China’s most ambitious plan to achieve a “community of common destiny”. China proposes a change to the global governance system through this community,…
The global transition from a fossil-fuel driven economy to one run by renewable energy envisions China playing a crucial role: especially when it comes to harnessing solar energy. Not only…
I was only seventeen years old when I spent a year of my life in Nanjing, China, and I still remember my Chinese grandmother criticizing my skin color and blaming…
There are many works in the strategic literature that point to the difficulties of mainland China conquering, and invariably, unifying Taiwan by force. One can be with two for now.…
China is facing a problem. The gender disparity of the country has led to a glut of eligible brides. A legacy of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy, preference for…
Peace for Asia organised a podcast in collaboration with Policy People with Victoria Tin-bor Hui, who is an active voice of dissent and a symbol of resistance for the Hong…
The conclusion of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) on 30 December 2020, after 6 years of negotiations, brought a lot of attention to the human rights violations that…
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Chen Quanguo has maintained a low profile in the course of his ascent within the ranks of the Communist Party of China. However, in July…
After Mao, Xi Jinping is oft considered as the most powerful leader since his accession to the General Secretary position in the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, according to Human…
Tibet is most well known for being the home to the vast plateaued landscape and Tibetan Buddhism, bringing us visions of picturesque monasteries and towering snow-capped peaks. However, the question…
As widely reported by media outlets throughout the world, China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang province against the Muslim Uyghur community is well known. Researchers have sourced the use of…