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Ear to Asia

Ear to Asia is produced by Asia Institute, the Asia research specialists at the University of Melbourne, Australia. In Ear to Asia, we talk with Asia experts to unpack the issues behind news headlines... Read more

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China's Smouldering Volcanoes Of Social Discontent

China's Smouldering Volcanoes Of Social Discontent

Veteran China watcher Prof Martin K. Whyte explains why Chinese citizens remain unfazed by the enormous income and wealt... Read more

24 May 2017

37mins

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China's Belt and Road Initiative: Audacious global strategy or Sino overreach?

China's Belt and Road Initiative: Audacious global strategy or Sino overreach?

Asia international relations experts Dr Sow Keat Tok and Dr Pradeep Taneja unravel the motivations and implications behi... Read more

27 Feb 2018

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What drives Australia-Indonesia relations?

What drives Australia-Indonesia relations?

Australia’s relationship with Indonesia is complex, often fluid but sometimes fraught. How do these two nations regard e... Read more

30 Jan 2020

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Engineering public morality in China

Engineering public morality in China

China’s social credit system is being rolled out and will by 2020 track the behavior of all of its 1.4 billion citizens,... Read more

17 Aug 2018

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The road to Uyghur repression in China

The road to Uyghur repression in China

China has been cracking down hard on Uyghur and other Muslim groups in its far northwestern region of Xinjiang. But what... Read more

11 Oct 2019

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The rise, fall and future of Turkey's Gülen movement

The rise, fall and future of Turkey's Gülen movement

Followers of the Gülen movement, some 10 million strong and active in 160 countries, remain to this day the target of re... Read more

25 Oct 2019

43mins

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Unforgiven: Japan through the eyes of Korea and China

Unforgiven: Japan through the eyes of Korea and China

Asia researchers Dr Jun Ohashi and Dr Jay Song consider the optics of Japan’s relations with it neighbours, the Koreas a... Read more

14 Mar 2018

26mins

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Xi Jinping and China's Confucianist revival

Xi Jinping and China's Confucianist revival

Confucianism is experiencing a revival in China, with President Xi Jinping now publicly endorsing Confucius’ millennia-o... Read more

11 Oct 2018

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Is Xi Jinping's heavy hand just what China needs?

Is Xi Jinping's heavy hand just what China needs?

To many observers, Xi Jinping’s leadership appears to be a throwback to the Mao Zedong era. But is it fair to compare Xi... Read more

5 Jul 2019

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China's Xi Jinping: The man who would be Mao?

China's Xi Jinping: The man who would be Mao?

China recently abolished term limits for its presidency, clearing the way for Xi Jinping to continue indefinitely — poss... Read more

25 May 2018

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China's long march to a utopian society

China's long march to a utopian society

While Chinese notions of an ideal society can be traced back more than two millennia to Confucius, it’s the Chinese Comm... Read more

14 Feb 2019

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How healthy is China's healthcare system?

How healthy is China's healthcare system?

China's citizens are now demanding more from the nation’s healthcare system, with its tangle of institutions, insurance ... Read more

28 Feb 2019

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Taking the pulse of democracy in Southeast Asia

Taking the pulse of democracy in Southeast Asia

Given the notably mixed results of recent elections in the region, just how healthy is the practice of democracy in Sout... Read more

2 Aug 2018

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Cambodia: Hun Sen's unrelenting grip on power

Cambodia: Hun Sen's unrelenting grip on power

Southeast Asia historian Dr Matthew Galway discusses Cambodia’s politics, culture and history through the lens of Hun Se... Read more

12 Apr 2019

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How household registration in China continues to divide society

How household registration in China continues to divide society

China's household registration—or hukou—system identifies citizens by their urban or rural origins and follows them wher... Read more

24 May 2019

42mins

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The evolving lives and language of women in Japan

The evolving lives and language of women in Japan

Social anthropologist Prof. Kaori Okano talks to presenter Ali Moore about the life transitions of a group of Japanese w... Read more

15 Mar 2019

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What a deepening China-Pakistan alliance means for India?

What a deepening China-Pakistan alliance means for India?

How does Pakistan fit into Xi Jinping’s geopolitical ambitions for China? And how do the deepening military and economic... Read more

29 Mar 2019

41mins

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North Korea's top defector speaks his mind

North Korea's top defector speaks his mind

Thae Yong-ho, North Korea’s highest ranking defector, joins us in the studio to share his unique insights into North Kor... Read more

13 Sep 2019

42mins

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Homelands harnessing the power of their diasporas

Homelands harnessing the power of their diasporas

Diasporas, once viewed by their homelands as merely remittance cash cows, are increasingly being seen by labor-exporting... Read more

23 Nov 2018

36mins

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The war memory industries of China and Japan

The war memory industries of China and Japan

While both China and Japan run museums dedicated to the horrors of WWII, how well are the facts allowed to speak for the... Read more

26 Apr 2019

33mins

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