SOAS in the Media 17- 23 Jan

Expert comment on global news topics from the past week

• Steve Tsang discusses  China's demographic changes as the population decreases for the first time in 60 years on BBC 2's Newsnight
• Steve Tsang comments on China's demographic changes as the population decreases for the first time in 60 years for AP, Independent, TIME, ABC News.
• Steve Tsang comments on  Xi Jinping's grip on power in China for The Guardian. 
• Miguel Niño-Zarazúa discussed why social welfare services are being cut across the world on The Conversation's podcast.
• Avinash Paliwal, comments on Pakistan seeing value in improving relations with India for AP Direct.
• Stephen Chan comments on delays to the new album  by US based Zimbabwean artist Thomas Mapfumo for Nehanda Radio.
• Yair Wallach writes about the racist logic behind the partition of Palestine for MENAFN. 
• Chengyu Yang writes about the Taiwan People’s Party's (TPP) post-election opportunities and challenges for Taiwan Insight.
• Nidah Kaiser, PhD student, writes about the third annniversary of the anti-CAA movement for The Indian Express. 
• Duncan Bartlett explains the significance of meetings between the Japanese Prime Minister and Joe Biden, as well as other world leaders, from the perspective of Japan’s relationship with China for The China Project.
• Duncan Bartlett discusses with Mark Willimas, Chief Asia Economist at Capital Economics, whether there will be a surge in Covid as people travel around China during Lunar New Year celebrations on the China in Context podcast.
• Zeinab Badawi is a new board member of International Crisis Group.
• Article covering the SOAS Centre for AI Futures by Quilt.AI on Medium.