Written by Dr Franziska Plümmer
The risks of brain drain and demographic change are looming over the heads of Beijing’s policymakers and business leaders, who are also increasingly incentivising Chinese students to come back from abroad.
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Written by Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
The crisis can only end if the government realises that preventing people from exercising their right to vote will be counterproductive going forward.
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Written by Sana Jaffrey and Eve Warburton
After years of debate, protest, and delay, the Indonesian parliament passed a new criminal code that gives the state new tools to punish a wide range of ideological, moral, and political offences. The new provisions of the code threaten political dissent with prison sentences and have the potential to muzzle public debate about the purview of the state in citizens’ private and political lives.
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Written by Furqan Khan
Targeting and punishing dissenting voices threatens to define Pakistan’s political culture. However, repressing dissenting voices is a self-inflicted wound.
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Written by Manali Kumar
Although the motivations underlying the protests in Hong Kong and Thailand are different from those in India and the US, in all cases they indicate growing popular dissatisfaction with prevailing institutions and political leadership in each country.
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