Heechan LeeTaejon Christian International SchoolHigh School Student2017 Protests in Seoul, South Korea Demanding for President Park's ResignationThe recent trends in international politics have led many people, even experts to doubt about our democracies. The rise of extreme right and left and the socio-economic success stories of authoritarian regimes are challenging the…See More
Heechan LeeTaejon Christian International SchoolHigh School Student2017 Protests in Seoul, South Korea Demanding for President Park's ResignationThe recent trends in international politics have led many people, even experts to doubt about our democracies. The rise of extreme right and left and the socio-economic success stories of authoritarian regimes are challenging the…See More
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Quinnipiac's Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox discusses her work researching the conception of human rights in a community in rural India. She tells the story of Chaya Kakade, a woman who went on a hunger strike after the Indian government proposed a tax on sanitary napkins, and has since built her own production center in Latur. How does Kakade understand human rights? How can Westerners move beyond a legalistic view of the concept?
"The rise of China is not the biggest story in the world," says Parag Khanna. "The Asianization of Asia, the return of Asia, the rise of the Asian system, is the biggest story in the world." This new Asian system, where business, technology, globalization, and geopolitics are intertwined, stretches from Japan to Saudi Arabia, from Australia to Russia, and Indonesia to Turkey, linking 5 billion people.
How is China influencing democracies such as Taiwan, Korea, and the United States? "I think there are three areas that you can look at," says Asia security analyst Rachael Burton. "The first is narrative dominance, which I would call a form of cognitive warfare. Beijing has been able to set the terms of debate . . . and once you're asking the questions, then you're able to drive intellectuals or policymakers to a certain answer."
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