Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
The US is more needed but less trusted in Asia in 2020 than it was in 2016.
For poor women who work as motorcycle-taxi drivers, the twin burdens of care-giving and supplementing family income have intensified.
Women have been hardest hit by COVID-related job losses in South Korea, but the jobs market generally has been resilient.
Over the last 50 years, China has experienced a tectonic shift from an impoverished nation with a significant democracy movement to global power with increasing political repression.
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