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May 14, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Linda Yueh |Hannah Theaker |Hirohito Ogi |Enze Han
China is experiencing both a cyclical and structural slowdown that makes it particularly challenging to assess whether its official growth and employment targets will be achieved in 2024. In 2024, the Chinese government is aiming for around five per cent GDP growth and to create over 12 million new jobs.
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May 13, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Hirohito Ogi |Enze Han |Evan Williams |Hannah Theaker
The first images of Chinese mosques with their domes torn off began circulating in 2018. Soon, other news reports highlighted rare, isolated instances of public protest, in which Hui Muslims came out onto the streets to resist demolitions or forced renovations of their mosques.
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May 12, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Michael Barr |Enze Han |Willy Jou |Amit Ranjan
For a geographically tiny country with a special combination of political, economic and social features, Singapore has done well to be seen from time to time as the voice of its region. Singaporean leaders certainly have no monopoly on such regional leadership, as Anwar Ibrahim’s speech in March demonstrates.
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May 12, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Michael Barr |Enze Han |Willy Jou |Amit Ranjan
On 15 April 2024, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave a month’s notice that he was stepping down after 20 years in the job and that Lawrence Wong — his 51-year-old deputy — would succeed him. The official announcement was remarkably prosaic, reading and feeling more like the notification of a high-level personnel change in the civil service or a large corporation than the arrival of a new prime minister.
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May 12, 2024 | 
newsr.in | Enze Han
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May 11, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Hirohito Ogi |Enze Han |Willy Jou |Evan Williams
In April 2024, the Australia–UK–US trilateral security cooperation framework (AUKUS) declared their intention to consider ‘cooperation with Japan on AUKUS Pillar II advanced capability projects’. AUKUS currently involves developing nuclear-powered submarines (Pillar I) and advanced defense technologies (Pillar II). The following Japan–US summit statement reiterated this intention, with the addition of the recognition of ‘Japan’s strengths’.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Enze Han
HONG KONG: One of the key questions about China’s relations with Myanmar is whether Beijing is supporting the State Administration Council military junta. To the naive eye, it seems natural that the Chinese Communist Party would support the State Administration Council because of their shared authoritarian nature.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Scott Snyder |Enze Han |Andrei Lankov |Emma Whitmyer
Author: Scott Snyder, Council on Foreign RelationsThough North Korea had yet to fully resume its pre-pandemic activities by the end of the year, Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un celebrated major successes in safeguarding and strengthening North Korea and the Kim family dynasty in 2023. In so doing, Kim appears to have set a course to generate more tensions in 2024. There was an apparent successful launch of a North Korean satellite in November 2023 following two failed attempts.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Enze Han |Sajjad Ashraf |Dan Slater |Francis E Hutchinson
One of the key questions about China’s relations with Myanmar is whether Beijing is supporting the State Administration Council (SAC) military junta. To the naive eye, it seems natural that the Chinese Communist Party would support the SAC because of their shared authoritarian nature.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
international.thenewslens.com | Enze Han
What you need to know China's media has largely ignored Myanmar's political crisis and the plight of its people, focusing instead on criminal networks involved in online scams. By Enze Han, HKUWhile many have expressed disappointment with the limited attention from the West regarding Myanmar’s political crisis, it is especially surprising that Myanmar’s neighboring countries did not exhibit more interest.
