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This week's
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CURRENT
AFFAIRS
As
China cracks down on “Western values” in schools, American
universities have still been flocking in to establish branches there.
Asia Society’s Asia In-Depth
podcast looks at the case of NYU Shanghai and the
controversies surrounding schools that have been dubbed “free speech
bubbles” amid a deteriorating atmosphere for higher education.
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POLICY
In
a recent conversation with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos
at Asia Society in New York, Jake
Sullivan discussed the equal parts “shocking and
predictable” nature of Donald
Trump’s presidency. Sullivan, who served as senior
policy advisor for Hillary
Clinton’s 2016 campaign, also noted that the U.S.
commander-in-chief appeared to lack a coherent strategy for dealing
with Asia.
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CURRENT
AFFAIRS
Despite
intensifying anti-globalization rhetoric, automation and
robotization have driven the elimination of manufacturing
jobs around the world more than trade, and late
industrializers like Egypt and India are poised to be hit
especially hard in coming years. “Autocrats and populists are
making all kinds of promises,” said Princeton’s Bernard Haykel at
Asia Society’s Lahore
Literary Festival. “But those jobs will never come,
which means we're looking at further radicalization, further
disenfranchisement.”
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