Tag: China
COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates
Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford and Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences
As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt...
Shots fired in the Himalayas: a dangerous development in the China-India...
Stephen Peter Westcott, Murdoch University
In the midst of all the stories about China’s oppression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang and its expulsion of foreign...
How the decline in Chinese tourists around the world has hit...
Xiaoqing Chen, University of Aberdeen and Carol Zhang, University of Nottingham
Large groups of Chinese visitors have become a pillar of the global tourism industry....
Ancient DNA is revealing the genetic landscape of people who first...
Melinda A. Yang, University of Richmond
The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that,...
It’s hard to tell why China is targeting Australian wine. There...
Markus Wagner, University of Wollongong and Weihuan Zhou, UNSW
It’s on again. This time it’s Australia’s wine industry that’s under investigation in China for allegedly...
5 reasons Chinese students may stop studying in the US
Andrew Swindell, University of California, Los Angeles
Nearly 400,000 Chinese students were enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities in 2019 – more than one-third of...
How smugglers are shifting staggering amounts of contraband despite the pandemic
Alexander Kupatadze, King's College London
On July 1, Italian police made the largest amphetamine seizure in the world. At the port of Salerno, just south...
Street vendors make cities livelier, safer and fairer – here’s why...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cities around the world are emerging from pandemic shutdowns and gradually allowing activities to resume. National leaders...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
