In 2023, China’s population shrank by 2.08 million.[1] The reason was unambiguous: its total fertility rate is approaching 1 child per woman,[2] whereas 2.1 children per woman are needed to maintain a stable population.[3] For […]
On March 5th from 12- 130 pm EST, Professor Minxin Pei, a Chinese politics scholar at Claremont McKenna College, delivered a presentation on his new book The Sentinel State: Surveillance & the Survival of Dictatorship […]
On February 23, the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted an event titled “The Ripple Effect: China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia”. The speaker of the event was Enze Han, who […]
After being imprisoned and tortured for eleven months,[1] human rights lawyer Chang Weiping was only granted ten minutes to briefly speak to his parents in a police station. “I plead to you and mother to […]
ABSTRACT With the increasing movement toward a Taiwan-based politics, there has also been a simultaneous fixation on the role of the state of the Republic of China in Taiwanese politics. In conversation with the normative […]
Every year, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Embassy of Canada host the Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World. On December 3rd, 2020 they hosted their seventeenth edition of the lecture […]
Abstract: China has achieved unprecedented economic growth since its economic reform and opening-up policy in 1978. The concept “Socialism with Chinese characteristics,” pronounced by Deng Xiaoping has prompted the country’s transition from a planned economy […]
Abstract: Calls for the Lal Salaam, or “Red Salute,” have echoed across low-development regions of East India for nearly six decades now. The Naxalite-Maoist insurgency has involved sustained and violent conflict by both state and […]
Abstract: This article surveys China’s strategic governance approach to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Beijing’s hallmark foreign policy program, in terms of its implications for the liberal international order. China employs a form of quasi-multilateral […]
Abstract: This paper argues that since 1970, Canadian relations with the People’s Republic of China has been on a trajectory of increasing political and economic significance, and that this trend is evident in three of the most […]
© 2017 Synergy: The Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies. All rights reserved.