The 14th BRICS Summit is set to be held on June 23-24 under China’s chairmanship. This year, the war in Ukraine has added a new layer of uncertainty to the ongoing debate around the viability and relevance of the group of major emerging economies composed of Brazil,...
Xi Jinping: Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953-2018 A new book by Alfred L. Chan This book is the first comprehensive exploration of all episodes of Xi Jinping’s life history and his political career, begun at age 17. The author discusses all major...
How does the Chinese state coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In her latest book, Outsourcing Repression, Lynette Ong examines how the Chinese state engages nonstate actors, from violent street gangsters to nonviolent grassroots...
Following a career spanning nearly thirty years in the Australian Public Service, Allan was Chief of Staff to the Australian Minister for Climate Change and Industry Greg Combet (2009 to 2013) and senior advisor to then Shadow Minister and now Minister for Foreign...
A discussion on the highly-anticipated first visit by a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to China since 2005. About our speaker: Philip Alston is an international law scholar and human rights practitioner. He is Professor of Law at New York University School of...
