Yaoyao Dai

Apr 30, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Yaoyao Dai |Jingjing Gao |Benjamin Radford

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many politicians and citizens alike have sought a scapegoat (Chen et al. 2020; Porumbescu et al. 2023). With the likely origin of the novel coronavirus being Wuhan China, people of Chinese or other Asian descent have become easy targets. Anti-Chinese and anti-Asian racism and crimes have increased significantly across the globe in the wake of the pandemic (see, e.g., Dipoppa, Grossman, and Zonszein 2021; Lowen 2020; The Guardian 2020).

Jan 19, 2024 | mdpi.com | Xiaolei Ji |Chen Guo |Yaoyao Dai |Lu Chen

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Aug 24, 2023 | theloop.ecpr.eu | Benjamin Radford |Yaoyao Dai |Aaron Schein |Niklas Stoehr

In the wake of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, Benjamin J. Radford, Yaoyao Dai, Niklas Stoehr, Aaron Schein, Mya Fernandez, and Hanif Sajid have developed a model to better estimate the loss numbers obscured by the fog of war and the biases of some reporting sourcesIn February 2022, a simmering conflict between Russia and Ukraine erupted into a full-scale war. Researchers who study wars often define 'war' by the number of deaths experienced in one year of conflict.