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Published in: Home: OpinionGlobalisation is leading to permanent war. Here’s what we should do instead
OPINION: Instead of peace through trade, we’re seeing increasing conflict. But states could still work together yet
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Published in: Podcasts: OpinionChina gives scholarships to Africans but then moves the doctoral goalposts
Lots of African students are studying for PhDs in China – but why is it so hard to graduate?
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Published in: Podcasts: FeatureBorders & Belonging: How did China become a world student hub?
Once, Chinese students dreamed of studying abroad. Now it’s the other way around
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Published in: oDR: OpinionFor Vladimir Putin, Russia’s future is North Korea-lite
The occupied Luhansk and Donetsk regions offer the president a template of brute, military-style governance
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Published in: oDR: FeatureRussia and China are moving closer together. Is this a new world order?
Now that Putin and his generals have threatened Russia’s economic power by invading Ukraine, they have one place...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionHow the Ukraine invasion ends may depend on China and Russian mothers
While everything suggests Russia may now be in serious trouble, there are still reasons for caution
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisPutin’s brutal intentions for Ukraine are clear. Will he succeed?
The course of this deadly conflict is far from certain, but there are lessons to be learnt from recent wars
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Published in: Home: OpinionBeijing 2022: No snow at the Winter Olympics? You’d better get used to it
Climate change is making winter sports increasingly unviable – but the industry prefers the fig leaf of social...
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Published in: Home: OpinionRemembering the Holocaust must prompt us to challenge today’s human rights abuses
An independent tribunal’s finding of genocide in China is a reminder that the promise of ‘never again’ has yet to be...
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Published in: Home: NewsWomen’s Tennis Association shows global business how to deal with Beijing
By suspending tournaments in China over treatment of Peng Shuai, the WTA placed rights over profits. How will the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationA green paradox: Deforesting the Amazon for wind energy in the Global North
A shift to wind energy is leaving a trail of destruction in Ecuador, with a brutal impact on Indigenous communities...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisIs China taking climate change more seriously than the West?
The country has shown that there is an authoritarian path through the climate crisis. We need to follow the democratic one
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionDespite all the international attention, Afghan refugees are not welcome
Nobody really knows what prospects await Afghan refugees when countries have yet to see human rights as rights for all humans
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe West’s defeat in Afghanistan will please China and inspire Islamist extremists
The US will fight the Taliban from the air – but there’s no sign this will check the paramilitaries on the ground
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Published in: ourEconomy: NewsWhy is a company accused of looting diamonds back in Zimbabwe’s mines?
A Chinese-Zimbabwean military venture has been handed one of the country’s most lucrative diamond-producing blocks,...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionChina’s relations with the African continent: Three elephants in the room
How racism, the media and local realities could shape the future of migration between China and Africa
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionAnywhere but here? China’s response to refugee protection during COVID-19
The pandemic is having a profound impact on refugee protection globally. But is China doing enough?
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionHow COVID-19 exposed China’s anti-Black racism
The draconian measures taken in many Chinese cities to control the pandemic exacerbated the marginalisation of Black people
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationIllegal Chinese fishing in the Galapagos: a threat to the biodiversity of the Latin American Pacific
The growing illegal activity of Chinese fishing vessels in Latin American waters has triggered the search for new...
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Published in: Home: OpinionUS and China are both raising the military stakes in the South China Sea
Just when Trump might be looking for a diversion.