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When: Thursday October 31st, 3-4pm EST
Where: ONLINE or Room 305, Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University
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Event description: Dr Long‘s book, Authoritarian Absorption (Oxford University Press 2024), traces the collapse and rebuilding of public health systems in China. Contesting conventional domestic analysis, she reveals how interactions between foreign organizations, government agencies, and social movements can simultaneously bolster public health institutions and reinforce authoritarian power. This dynamic was pivotal to China‘s subsequent handling of COVID-19 and instrumental in advancing the rights of specific groups like urban gay men. For ONLINE attendance, register
at: https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0SnjbfL3SBmOeMkXUTNuYQ#/registrationNo registration required for in-person attendance.
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| York Centre for Asian Research: "China‘s Two Educational Revolutions,1890–2023: The Best and the Rest"
When: Friday November 1st, 2-3:30pm EST
Where: ONLINE or Room 7-105, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West
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Event description: This study compares the 5,277 academicians and “experts” elected or selected by the Chinese Academies of Science and Engineering and the Chinese Association of Science and Technology at the apex of the Chinese academe, with 357,833 elite Chinese university students at the base to show that in contrast to well-known findings for elite education in France and recent findings for elite students, faculty and intellectuals in the United States, the distinctive defining feature of the Chinese academe over the last century is the salient proportion of top students and scholars from diverse disadvantaged backgrounds, as the result of two distinct revolutions in the Chinese academe. For ONLINE attendance, join the meeting on zoom: https://zoom.us/j/661234725#successFor IN-PERSON attendance, register
at: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=GBNTNBFw1E-H8KQ4FsSb0DU80mEDFrZKkR-7B1wuPhlUMDNNRjgxMkJCMzRZSlBYUUVMT0wwRFU4Ui4u&route=shorturl
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 | Published: October 23, 2024
Written by: Simone McCarthy
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India and China have reached an agreement on military disengagement along their disputed border, New Delhi said, a step toward reducing frictions between the nuclear-armed neighbors that comes ahead of an expected meeting between the countries’ leaders on the sidelines of a summit in Russia.
India’s foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Monday said the agreement on military patrolling in certain areas brought the situation back to where it was in 2020 prior to a deadly border clash that year, thus completing the “disengagement process” with China.
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Published: October 15, 2024
Written by: Lyndon Lee
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British Foreign Secretary David Lammy is expected to visit Beijing and Shanghai, the highest-level trip to China since the Labour government came to power.
Analysts say they will be watching the trip for signs of a possible reset in U.K.-China relations, which have been fraught in recent years.
Reuters reported last week that Lammy is expected to meet with Chinese officials in Beijing and representatives of British companies in Shanghai. According to sources familiar with the matter, the trip will last two days.
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Published: October 13, 2024
Written by: The Associated Press
China agreed Sunday to assist Vietnam on cross-border railway development and take steps to expand agricultural imports from its smaller neighbor, Vietnam’s official media said.
Premier Li Qiang, on an official visit to Vietnam, pledged that China would further open its market to high-quality fruits, seafood and other Vietnamese products, a state media report said.
China is Vietnam’s largest trading partner and second-largest export market after the U.S. Trade between the two countries reached $172 billion in 2023. Vietnam’s top leader, To Lam, signaled the importance of the relationship when he made China his first overseas visit after assuming his post last year.
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Published: September 23, 2024
Written by: Eric Toussaint
Claudio Katz has just published a book in Spanish entitled America Latina en la encrucijada global (“Latin America at the Global Crossroads”). Claudio Katz is a Marxist economist and professor at the University of Buenos Aires, author of some fifteen books concerning the Dependency theory fifty years after its emergence, imperialism today, and issues faced by the Latin American Left. His new book concentrates on Latin America and deals with the continent‘s relations with China and with US imperialism.
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Under the White Gaze: Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian JournalismPublished: September 2024 Written by: Christopher Cheung Published by: UBC Press Canada‘s multiculturalism stops where most newsrooms begin. Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in the media, people of colour are often presented as clichés – from freeloading immigrants to keepers of exotic culture – rather than as individuals with complex stories. Under the White Gaze is a candid investigation into the state of race in Canadian media today that challenges the way we think about the news we read, watch, and listen to. Instead of treating diversity like a missing ingredient – simply add one racialized reporter and the problem is solved – journalist Christopher Cheung calls on newsrooms to think critically about representation
in all areas of coverage. That means recognizing that even feel-good reporting about festive foods or model minorities can perpetuate the white gaze. Examining real stories from recent years for successes or how they fall short, Cheung weighs in on what they reveal about Canada‘s white gaze, and how it operates differently than America‘s.
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Published: October 15, 2024
China has sent two giant panda bears to the United States to be housed in Washington, DC’s Smithsonian National Zoo, in a rare diplomatic overture between the two countries.
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The three-year-old pandas – a male named Bao Li and a female named Qing Bao – arrived at Virginia’s Dulles International Airport, which serves the US capital, on Tuesday.
Many viewed the absence of a quick replacement for the three pandas as reflective of growing US-China friction, but Chinese President Xi Jinping soon promised he would send new pandas as “envoys of friendship”.
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Published: October 16, 2024
Written by: David Stanway
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Countries need a new international pact to fix a mounting water crisis that could cut economic growth by at least 8% and put half the world's food supplies at risk by 2050, an OECD-backed commission said on Thursday.
Climate change, destructive land use and chronic mismanagement has put the global water cycle under "unprecedented stress", said the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW), a two-year research initiative set up by the Netherlands in 2022.
Densely populated regions like northwestern India, northeastern China and southern and eastern Europe are especially vulnerable to water shortages, it said.
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Published: October 16, 2024
Written by: Taiwo Adebayo
The world is set to make abundant energy by the second half of the decade as the production of batteries and solar panels surges — but there’ll also be an excess of planet-warming fossil fuels, a report released Wednesday by the International Energy Agency said.
China in particular — the world’s current biggest emitter of greenhouse gases but also the main manufacturer of solar panels and batteries — is driving global energy trends, the report said.
In recent years, China has accounted for most of the growth in oil demand, but electric vehicles now make up 40% of new sales of cars there, and 20% of sales globally, putting major oil and gas producers “in a bind.”
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 | Published: October 17, 2024
Written by: Prasanth Aby Thomas
The Cybersecurity Association of China (CSAC) has urged a security review of Intel products sold in the country, claiming the US semiconductor firm poses ongoing threats to China‘s national security and interests.
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 | Published: October 16, 2024
Written by: Deng Xiaoci
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Within just 12 hours, China successfully launched 18 communication satellites and a remote sensing satellite into their designated orbits, in two separate missions on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Chinese space watchers view this achievement as a testament to the country's growing expertise in space technology and increasingly strong capabilities of space applications.
China launched the Gaofen-12 05 remote sensing satellite via a Long March-4C carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gansu Province at 7:45 am on Wednesday.
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 | Published: October 15, 2024
Written by: Ji Yuqiao
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Free of complex storylines, exaggerated romances, melodramatic plot twists and revenge stories based on absurd experiences, a fresh breeze has blown into Chinese micro-drama industry, bringing diverse and refined themes based on historical figures and cultural heritage. The trend can be seen in a recent list of recommended micro dramas for a creative project. The latest batch of 55 recommended micro dramas were selected as part of the project titled "Have a tour following micro dramas." They cover a variety of themes such as peaceful rural scenery, conservation of intangible cultural heritage and ecological development.
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Published: October 6, 2024
Written by: Tim Adams
The photojournalist Melanie Friend spent a month travelling in China on her own in 1986, when the country seemed to be opening up to visitors and change.
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She was 28 and had planned for the trip a long time in advance – seven months of night school classes in Mandarin – but nothing quite prepared her for the place she encountered. “In the cities they were used to seeing western students and so on, but in other places it was very unusual. I met with a lot of curiosity – and a great deal of friendliness.”
Such was the interest in the emerging China at the time that Friend, a freelancer, had commitments from various publications – the Economist, the Times – to publish whatever she came back with. The commissions gave her time to explore. “Early on,” she says, “I sat on my own in a hotel room and it was a bit bleak, so I resolved to get out and hire a bike, and cycle the back streets. That is when I started having these great spontaneous encounters with people.”
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 | Written by: Kevin Pi
In Canada‘s multicultural landscape, cross-cultural exchange is vital in bridging diverse communities and preserving their heritage. The recent interaction between the Chinese Cultural Centre of Great Vancouver and the Ckultenellcw Cultural Centre of Northern Secwepmec highlights the power of cross-cultural collaboration in the long journey of reconciliation. By celebrating both Chinese and Indigenous cultural traditions and treasures, the two centers not only foster mutual respect and understanding but also promote the holistic well-being of their communities.
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