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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
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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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33mins
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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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32mins
Ranked #4
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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26mins
Ranked #5
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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38mins
Ranked #6
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
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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
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26mins
Ranked #8
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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36mins
Ranked #9
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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38mins
Ranked #10
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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27mins
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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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33mins
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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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29mins
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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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38mins
Ranked #14
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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32mins
Ranked #15
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
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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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40mins
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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
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41mins
Ranked #18
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
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42mins
Ranked #19
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
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36mins
Ranked #20
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
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33mins