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November 2026

Emeritus professor modern China studies at Leiden University, Frank Pieke, spoke on China’s Foreign-Related Rule of Law in an interview with the Financial Times. A full version of this article was published in the Financial Times, which you can read…

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August 2026

Door Vincent K.L. Chang “Hoe Lang is een Chinees.” Zonder vraagteken natuurlijk, want het is geen vraag. Kwaad heb ik nooit gezien in dit woordgrapje. Meer moeite had ik met de juf van mijn zoontje in groep 4, toen zij…

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July 2026

By Raphael Vellenga The Nexperia standoff exposed one of the EU’s most consequential strategic dependencies: mature (“legacy”) chips. These older-node semiconductors underpin the EU’s automotive, clean energy, and defence industries, dominate European chip demand, and constitute the continent’s largest chip…

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June 2026

By Yibo Sun “You can’t be regal and common at the same time.” This was the central critique of the British monarchy of long-time republican Labour MP Dennis Skinner. He said it in a 1994 interview during a time in…

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May 2026

By Anoma P. van der Veere An ambitious promise At dawn, the shimmering lights of fireworks reflect the vast wooden ring that encircles the Expo grounds, a monumental structure stretching nearly two kilometers. In and around this wooden complex, more…

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April 2026

By Nicolas Blarel Contribution in India and a Changing Global Order: Foreign Policy in the Trump 2.0 Era by Milan Vaishnav, ed., Sameer Lalwani, Tanvi Madan, Nivedita Kapoor, Garima Mohan, Nicolas Blarel, Shoumitro Chatterjee, Konark Bhandari, Rohan Mukherjee. Published March…