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Les JO de Pékin, entre politique et polémiques
Ville-hôte des JO d'hiver 2022, Pékin a profité du feu des projecteurs pour tenter de projeter son ambition…
Sustainable Agriculture: A Question of Land Use
As the world population continues to grow and resource scarcity becomes increasingly pronounced, there has never…
Inaccessibility, Domestic Violence, and Lack of…
Lucky are the couples who have successful marriages, but what happens to those who fail?
Are the Olympics Truly Apolitical?
Who gets to decide where “sport with a purpose” morphs into clear political manipulation?
MIR Meets: Richard Hanania
Host Blaise Brosnan sits down with Richard Hanania, founder of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and…
Forgetting Ferdinand Marcos: The Dangers of Historical…
The failures of the elite democracy that returned in 1986, such as unsuccessfully addressing ongoing corruption and…
The Aftermath: Hong Kong’s ‘Patriots…
Host Andrew Xu sits down with Vivian Wang, a China correspondent for The New York Times. They discuss Hong Kong's…
Handheld Imperialism: American Tobacco in China
Between 1905 and 1937, young men from tobacco-growing states in the American South travelled to China to exemplify…
The Aftermath: Peng Shuai’s Disappearance
Host Andrew Xu sits down with Wenxin Fan, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. They discuss the disappearance of…
Between Two Giants: How Three Island Nations Control the…
Why does the US care so much about three of the world’s smallest, most remote nations? The answer is that it…
Revisiting the Sino-US Cold War Narrative
With China's recent gains in power and tensions between the US and China increasing, the debate on whether to…
China’s Meddling in Africa in the Midst of the…
Through its heavy investment in the political, economic, and social dimensions, is China improving or damaging…