Beyond Isolation: The Rising DPRK-Russia Collaboration and Its Global Ripple Effect

Read the report By Elena Guido, Eric Siyi Zhang & Christopher Green. Supported by the Russia and Eastern Europe Knowledge Alliance. This report analyzes the rapidly intensifying strategic partnership between North Korea (DPRK) and Russia since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, explaining how this alignment has evolved from a transactional wartime arrangement into a broader, potentially […]

Shared Histories, Distinct Memories: A comparison of Chinese and Russian official media discourses on World War II

READ THE REPORT By Vincent K.L. Chang and Eric Siyi Zhang. This report is part of our larger project on World War II memory in Asia and Europe.  Eighty years ago this month, the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union and Republic of China issued the Four Power Declaration. In this historic joint message amid […]

Report: Russian Perspectives on China as an Actor in Cyberspace

READ THE REPORT Leiden Asia Centre researchers Eric Siyi Zhang and Dr. Rogier Creemers have published a new report as part of the China’s Role in Cyber Security project. In the report, titled ‘Russian Perspectives on China as an Actor in Cyberspace’, Zhang and Creemers discuss how the so-called ‘Sino-Russian approach’ to internet governance is often […]