In the media
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Rogier Creemers in Times Higher Education: 'Chinese companies are expected to support national goals'27 March 2025Assistant professor Rogier Creemers discusses in Times Higher Education how China’s universities and companies collaborate to advance AI.
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Rogier Creemers on CNBC about China’s big tech policy30 January 2023Chinese State-backed entities have taken tiny stakes in parts of two Alibaba subsidiaries that oversee a video platform and web browser. Professor Rog...
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Maurits Berger on Ruetir about national holidays04 January 2023Why are the majority of our national holidays based around Christian festivities? Arabist Maurits Berger talks about this in an article on Ruetir.
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Nira Wickramasinghe on the protests in Sri Lanka19 July 2022Sri Lanka is experiencing unprecedented economic and political crises. Months of protests came to a head earlier this month when protesters occupied P...
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Remco Breuker in Time on South Korea’s presidential compound21 June 2022The president of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol, has chosen not to use his presidential compound. Professor Remco Breuker states in Time that this marks a...
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Casper Wits in Politico on Europe's relations with China21 June 2022Europe must be prepared to stand up for its values in its relationship with China, argues University Lecturer Casper Wits in an article in Politico.
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Christopher Green on ABC Australia about COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea02 June 2022Assistant Professor Christopher Green was interviewed on ABC Australia about the recent COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea. Green says that the statisti...
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Maghiel van Crevel in Jacobin about migrant worker poetry02 May 2022Hundreds of millions of Chinese workers have moved from the countryside to the city. This social transformation has birthed a tradition of migrant wor...
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Christopher Green in Calgary Sun about North Korea's friendly gesture28 April 2022
As South Korean president Moon Jae-in prepares to leave office, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has thanked him for trying to improve relations. Assis...
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Casper Wits in POLITICO on the EU's China Policy24 December 2021University lecturer Casper Wits wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing diplomatic tensions between the European Union and China for POLITICO. In this a...
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Florian Schneider on China’s digital nationalism17 August 2021
In recent years, online platforms have been utilized more and more to spread Chinese nationalist discourse. In an interview posted on The Diplomat, di...
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Florian Schneider on BBC News about Chinese nationalists and the Olympics03 August 2021Chinese athletes must perform this Olympics. Anything less than a gold is being seen as athletes being unpatriotic by furious nationalists online. Flo...
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Nira Wickramasinghe on New Books in South Asian Studies podcast26 March 2021In the book 'Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' Nira Wickramasinghe, professor of Modern South Asian Studies, uncov...
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Koen de Ceuster on the NKNews Podcast about North Korean art12 March 2021Koen de Ceuster, university lecturer for Korea Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, was interviewed on the NKNews Podcast abo...
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Rogier Creemers in Schweizer Monat about China's social credit system12 March 2021Rogier Creemers, assistent professor in Modern Chinese Studies, wrote an article about China's social credit system in the Schweizer Monat. In the art...