What We’re Reading: February 2 2022

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Tiger Zhifu Li, University of Sydney

Chris Barrett, “‘I have nowhere to run’: Children caught in the crossfire in Myanmar”, Sydney Morning Herald. 

At least 150,000 children have been forced to flee their homes since last February’s military coup in Myanmar and others who remain fear for their lives, as international efforts to bring an end to the crisis have failed.

Global Times staff reports, “China forms biggest-ever Winter Olympics team with 176 athletes; Olympic Villages officially open”, Global Times.  

On the same day when the three Olympic Villages officially opened their doors to athletes for the Beijing Winter Olympics, China officially established its largest-ever Winter Olympics team (including 176 athletes) in its history. The athletes vowed to achieve the best results in the country’s Winter Olympic history while demonstrating their strength, perseverance and modesty.

Christopher Reynolds, “San Francisco’s Chinatown is caught between past and future”, Los Angeles Times.  

Loved by generations and many people , San Francisco’s Chinatown embraces change as businesses close and new ideas emerge. Chinatown in San Francisco is a mixture of the past and future.

 

Martin Crevier, University of Cambridge

Wolfgang Schreek, What is technopopulism?, London Review of Books

Walner Osna, Haïti : de la domination simple à la domination complexe, Histoire engagée

Courtney Dobson and Alexander Reid Ross, The Big Business of Uyghur Genocide Denial, New Lines Magazine


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