SOAS in the Media: 1-7 September

8 September 2020

Items related to Asia

  • Financial Times , Financial Post , Regina leader-Post : Steve Tsang, Director of the China Institute, comments on the future of Hong Kong - 03 Sep
  • BBC Mundo News, Todo Diarios de Argentina , La Prensa Gráfica and three other media outlets: Steve Tsang, Director of the China Institute, commments on how Mike Pompeo wants to change US foreign policy towards China previously implemented by President Nixon - 04 Sep
  • ABC News , New Delhi Times , Creaders.Net , Indian Strategic Studies : Steve Tsang comments on the toughtening of European government's attitudes against China - 05 Sep
  • The World News , Ortenau News : Steve Tsang, Director of the China Institute comments on China's interest in ruling over Tawian - 07 Sep
  • The Diplomat Magazine , News India , Indian Strategic Studies : Dr Avinash Paliwal, Deputy Director of SOAS South Asia Institute, writes about insurgencies in India’s northeastern frontier and the varying role China has played in supporting them. - 03 Sep
  • BBC : Dr Dafydd Fell, Director, SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies, comments on the Czech Senate's President's visit to Taiwan and its impact on China-EU relations - 03 Sep
  • Bloomberg , Business Day (South Africa) , NBC News : Dr. Nathan Hill, specialist in East Asian languages and cultures, comments on China's plans to remove the teaching of the Mongolian language at schools - 01 Sep
  • The Conversation, Qrius , ForeignAffairs.co.nz : Navtej K Purewal, Professor of Political Sociology and Development Studies, writes about the Netflix show Indian Matchmaking, and why it can’t ignore the political reality in India - 04 Sep
  • Shine.cn : Yan Jiang, Lecturer in Linguistics & the languages of China, discusses the Shanghainese dialect - 04 Sep
  • Aaj Tak : Mayur Suresh Lecturer of Law writes about the Indian government's formation of the 'Committee for Reforms in Penal Laws' - 04 Sep
  • Hindustan Times : David Lunn, Senior Teaching Fellow and Research Associate in South Asian and Postcolonial Studies criticises the use of English-language terms from contemporary times and reading them backwards into history in an Indian context. - 07 Sep
  • Eurasia Review , Radio Free Europe : Dr Ayesha Siddiqa, Research Associate at CISD comments on the wealth of the former General of Pakistan's army and military privilage - 07 Sep
  • Indian Strategic Studies : Dr Ayesha Siddiqa, Research Associate at CISD  writes about Pakistans relations with Saudi Arabia and China - 01 Sep
  • Redaction Politics: Professor James Horare, Research Associate at the Centre of Korean studies, comments on North-South Korean relations - 01 Sep
  • The Epoch Times SG: Burzine Waghmar, a Central Asian philologist at the Centre for Iranian Studies, discusses Gilgit-Baltistan’s petroglyphs in Pakistan - 02 Sep
  • Dailyhunt , HT Syndication , Business World (India) : Dr Burzine Waghmar expresses his concerns at China's treatment of Uyghurs and Tibetans - 07 Sep

Items related to Africa

Items related to the Middle East

  • France24 : Professor Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations, discusses French President Macron's role in government talks in Lebonan amid the aftermath of the explosion in Beirut - 01 Sep
  • Ottoman History Podcast : Hugh Kennedy, Professor of Arabic, discusses the Imperial Caliphates in this podcast - 07 Sep
  • Iranian Quran News Agency Online : Interview with Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies, UAW-Israel relations - 01 Sep
  • The Conversation , ForeignAffairs.co.nz : Kaweh Kerami, PhD Researcher in Development Studies, writes about the meeting between Afghanistan and the Tablian to try to reach a peace accord to end the world’s deadliest war - 07 Sep

Items related to other regions/SOAS General