What Chinese International Students Reveal About Modern China
China spent decades building elite universities, but why are Chinese students still packing their bags for the West? In January, the Communist Party’s Cen...
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Your Word is “Toad”
From 2013 to 2016, millions of viewers in China tuned in each year for the Chinese Characters Dictation Competition – an annual spelling bee in China that...
Oxfam International Country Director and Human Rights Advocate Fausto Belo Ximenes Discusses Peace Building and International Development
In December, the YRIS Interviews and Events Team sat down for an interview with Fausto Belo Ximenes, a member of the 2024 Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Pro...
Chongryon Schools: North Korea’s Hidden Hand in Japan
When most people think about North Korea, images of both seclusion and hostility come to mind. North Korea is largely shunned by the international community–its...
What the Tokyo Olympics Can Teach us About Foreign Labor and Immigration in an Aging Japan
Today, Japan is facing an unprecedented demographic crisis: of a population of over 125 million people, 29% are over the age of 65 while more than one in ten ar...
Shared Waters, Shared Futures: ASEAN-Led Cooperative Fisheries Governance in the South China Sea
The loss of fish in the South China Sea is a crisis for Southeast Asia. Due to overfishing, 64% of regional fish stocks are at a medium to high risk of collapse...
International Chinese Students: Academic Weapons
Amid the great power competition between China and the United States, an unlikely group has been caught in the crossfire: Chinese international students. Of the...
The Mongolian “Hoop Dream” — Creation of American Soft Power Through Basketball
“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you.” – Michael Jordan Introduction Recent years have seen the slow erosion of US influence i...
A Meaty Issue: Halal Food and Muslims in South Korea
Walking in the busy streets of Seoul on a Friday or Saturday night, it is common to see groups of friends sharing juicy samgyeopsal (grilled pork belly) while d...
Martians in the Gobi: Mongolia’s New Approach to Space Policy
Introduction In March, Mongolia was welcomed into the international space community by successfully sending two nanosatellites, Ondosat-Owl-1 and Ondosat-Owl-2,...