SOAS in the Media: 15 - 21 November

Expert comment on topics from the past week 

  • Daily Telegraph: Steve Tsang, Director of the China Institute, writes that the UK needs a new China strategy - 16/11/2022
  • The Guardian: Steve Tsang, Director of the China Institute, comments on Xi Jinping and Joe Biden's meeting at the G20 - 16/11/2022
  • South China Morning Post: Stephen Chan, Professor of Politics and International Relations, comments on China providing security aid assistance to African countries  - 15/11/2022
  • Democracy in Africa: Stephen Chan, Professor of Politics and International Relations and Awino Okech, Reader in Political Sociology, discuss the political thought of African philosophers  - 15/11/2022
  • Africa Report: Phil Clark, Professor of International Politics, comments on the limits of Global North peacebuilding strategies in Africa - 11/11/2022
  • Monocle 24: Phil Clark, Professor of International Politics, discusses the Malaysian elections, Kanye West's return to Twitter, a new regional peacekeeping force for eastern Congo and NZ pushing to reduce the voting age to 16 - 21/11/2022
  • New Statesman: Interview with Ha-Joon Change, Professor of Economics - 15/11/2022
  • The Boar: Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies, comments on the ongoing protests in Iran and what it would take for them to turn into a revolution - 16/11/2022
  • Open Democracy: Awino Okech, Reader in Political Sociology, writes that a feminist economic alternative is needed to Sunak and Hunt’s economic plans - 17/11/2022
  • Times of India: Naresh Sharma, Senior Lecturer in Hindi and Urdu, comments on the decline of language learning and South Asian languages in UK schools  - 21/11/2022
  • Evening Standard: Marcus Gilroy-Ware, Lecturer in Creative Digital Media, discusses Elon Musk's take over of Twitter and its future and upstart competitor Mastodon - 18/11/2022
  • BBC Chinese: George Magnus, Research Associate at the China Institute, comments on whether China's economy is in trouble - 20/11/2022
  • China In Context (podcast): Duncan Bartlett, SOAS China Institute, discusses what will be the key political themes of Xi Jinping’s third term in office with BBC China Editor, Howard Zhang - 15/11/2022
  • The China Project: Duncan Bartlett, SOAS China Institute, analyses the implications of the G20 summit in Bali from the perspective of Indonesia
  • DD India: Burzine Waghmar, member of South Asia Institute, joined former South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) secretary-general S K Sharma, on a discussion of India assuming the G20 presidency, following the November 2022 Bali Summit - 16/11/2022
  • TVP : Jim Hoare, Research Associate at the Centre of Korean studies, discusses the latest missile tests in North Korea - 19/11/2022
  • ThePrint: Aadil Brar, MSc student in international politics with a focus on China, writes about China putting its longer-range JL-3 missiles on its nuclear submarine and what this means - 21/11/2022
  • ThePrint: Aadil Brar, MSc student in international politics with a focus on China, writes about Xi Jinping and Joe Biden's meeting at the G20  - 16/11/2022
  • The Independent: Interview with SOAS alumnus and musician, Cautious Clay  - 20/11/2022