SOAS in the Media: 23-29 November

30 November 2021

Items related to Asia

  • Financial Times , EpochTimes : Dafydd Fell, Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies, comments on Beijing targeting Taiwanese companies with operations in China to undermine support for the country’s governing pro-democracy - 29 Nov
  • Taipei Times : Dafydd Fell, Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies, discusses the release of the book "Taiwan’s Contemporary Indigenous Peoples" as the result of a lecture series at the Centre of Taiwan Studies - 29 Nov
  • WSJ , The Daily Telegraph : Steve Tsang, Director of the China Institute, comments on China's censorship of the Simpsons episode showing Tiananmen Square from Disney+ in Hong Kong - 29 Nov
  • The Straits Times : Steve Tsang, Director of the China Institute in London, comments on the possibility of a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics - 24 Nov
  • Fortune : Steve Tsang, Director of the China Insitute, comments on the role of the IOC in the case of disappearance of tennis player Peng Shuai and whether this could prompt boycotts of 2022 Olympics in Beijing - 23 Nov
  • RenewAmerica , NewsMax : Steve Tsang, Director of the China Instit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otn3jcvf2w0 ute, comments on the WHO skipping over the Greek letter 'Xi' for the new covid variant - 26 Nov
  • Al-Araby Al-Jadeed: Dr Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor of Global Thought, comments on the plight of Rohingya muslims in Burma and Bangladesh - 24 Nov
  • Business Insider : Hazel Smith, Professorial Research Associate and Jame Hoare, Research Associate in Korean studies, both provide their expertise on North Korean security amind claims that Netflix drama "Squid Game" had been smuggled into North Korea - 26 Nov
  • Asia Times : Ayesha Siddiqa, Research Associate at the South Asia Institute, comments on the US designating Pakistan as a 'country of particular concern' - 24 Nov
  • The Kootneeti: Duncan Bartlett Research Associate at the China Insituite considers the implications of the media coverage of the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai for China's reputation as a host for the Winter Olympics in Beijing - 23 Nov
  • China Radio International : Duncan Bartlett, Research Associate at the China Insituite explains how leaders of European countries are responding as the WHO warns of 700,000 more COVID deaths in Europe by March - 24 Nov
  • China In Context: Olivia Cheung, Research Associate at the China Insituite explains the messages being sent by the Communuist party during the virtual summit between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden. The podcast is hosted by Duncan Barltett Research Associate at the China Insituite.
  • ThePrint : Addil Brar, MSc student of international politics with focus on China, writes about key political stories surrounding China over the past week - 29 Nov
  • ThePrint : Addil Brar, MSc student of international politics with focus on China, writes about the possibility of a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics - 24 Nov
  • Korea Times : SOAS graduate Philip Chennery, won the Korea Times and the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Award for his essay on issues of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament - 26 Nov

Items related to Africa

  • The National : Professor Adam Habib, Director of SOAS, comments on the UK's flight ban of Southern African countries in light of the Omnicron varient - 28 Nov
  • BBC Radio Scotland : Laura Hammond, Professor of Development studies, discusses the conflict in Ethiopia - 27 Nov
  • Business Day (South Africa) : Ryan Dusty, MSc Finance and Economics, writes that South Africa needs to build stronger municipal bureaucracy to absorb coalition turbulence - 23 Nov

Items related to the Middle East

  • ThePrint : Mustafa Metin Basbay, Teaching Fellow in Development studies, comments on how Erdogan’s dictatorial economics is fuelling Turkey’s inflation - 26 Nov

Items related to other regions/SOAS General

  • FEnews.co.uk : Coverage of the appointment of Lords Hastings as new Chair of the SOAS Board of Trustees - 29 Nov
  • Forbes : Felicia Jackson, Teaching Fellow - Global Energy and Climate Policy, writes about whether the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) could shift bank support away from fossil fuels - 23 Nov
  • The Friday Times : Dr Yasser Kureshi, Teaching Fellow in Politics and International studies, discusses judicial activism and judicial populism - 25 Nov
  • Plus61J : Colin Shindler, Emeritus Professor in Israel studies, writes about the state of Russia today, thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union - 30 Nov
  • City Press: Ryan Dusty, MSc Finance and Economics, student writes about coalition governments - 24 Nov
  • Abundant Art: Lian Lakhope, MA Global Media and Communications student, reviews the film You Will Die at Twenty - 25 Nov

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