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INTERVIEW: From Socialist China’s democracy movement to escalating military tensions

  • Professorial Fellow, Anne McLaren,

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.

South Korea’s prospects for a middle-power alliance in the era of COVID-19

  • Professor Taekyoon Kim,

The COVID-19 crisis has created opportunities to reinvigorate middle-power coalitions.

Learning to speak each other’s languages, again

  • Philipp Ivanov, Shazleen Lateef ,

Understanding each other’s languages and cultures will help overcome the vulnerabilities in Australia’s multiculturalism and its engagement with Asia exposed by COVID-19.

India and Australia’s federal systems have responded fairly well to COVID-19. But the US system hasn’t

  • Dr Niranjan Sahoo,

COVID-19 is laying bare the strengths and weaknesses of federal systems, and the US system is showing itself to be weak.