The red inside the orange: A Chinese panopticon in the Netherlands

Can prisoners of a panopticon ‘feel free’? A critique of Professor Pieke’s LAC 2023 Report

Tested negative: China’s zero-COVID policy

Why is China’s zero-COVID policy so rigid? Is there any explanation other than political rationality? What obstacles will recent changes face?

Turbulence in the air and space industry: EU sanctions against Russia

Airspace closures and export restrictions are reshaping relations between the EU and Russia. Consequences are not limited to the aerospace industry of each party: is there a new ‘iron curtain’ in the sky?

‘One China’ and the sacred modus vivendi

The debate on ‘One China’ keeps returning to the front pages, while the legal aspects of this peculiar situation are rarely addressed. Did President Biden misspeak, regarding US commitments? Hardly.

Time to level the playing field of multilateral trade: Rethinking the “differential” in Special and Differential Treatment

Allegations of genocide in the XUAR must be urgently investigated

This article is a response to the blog ‘Debating genocide, but in whose language?’, by Michael Liu.

A Historic Milestone for Mainland China-Hong Kong Cross-border Insolvency

A recently-signed Record of Meeting marks a milestone for cooperation between Mainland China and Hong Kong on cross-border insolvency issues. What is it about? And what does it mean for the future?

Debating genocide, but in whose language?

To legally categorise what is happening in Xinjiang as crimes against humanity or genocide assumes genocide is the crime of crimes and necessarily entails killing. We need to decolonise genocide.

Covid: The touchstone of democracy?

With vaccinations hopefully ending the pandemic soon, a reflection on Yuval Harari’s gloomy forecast that COVID-19 benefits authoritarian regimes at the cost of democracy.