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China’s President Xi Jinping tightened his grip on power at the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress. His political authority at home is absolute - and now, writes Charles Burton, Xi can move on with his plans for the rest of the world: a post-2050 world order he dubs “the community of the common destiny of humankind”, with China firmly at the top of the heap.
A few years ago the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative which promised to pull the African continent out of poverty captured the world’s attention. The economic growth hype has since died out. Lorenzo Fioramonti argues the narrative, anchored by a focus on GDP growth, flopped because it was based on faulty fundamentals.
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Charles Burton, Brock University
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been enshrined in the Communist Party's constitution as the sole legitimate interpreter of Chinese Marxism for the “new era.” Now he can move on to the rest of the world.
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Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria
The problem with Africa's model of industrial growth is that it privileges the formal at the expense of the informal and big corporations at the expense of small businesses.
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Dan Romer, University of Pennsylvania
In recent years, the notion of a structurally imbalanced teenage brain has been faulted for bad choices. A review of studies suggests that a deficit in brain development is not to blame.
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Miranda Dyson, The Open University; Philip Sexton, The Open University
Besides wondrous creatures, new discoveries and spectacular filming, Sir David Attenborough's follow up to The Blue Planet comes with a stark warning about the future
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Environment + Energy
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Bianca op den Brouw, The University of Queensland
Indian-made antivenoms, common throughout Africa because they are affordable, showed little-to-no neutralisation of the African Echis venoms.
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Arts + Culture
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Jessica Megarry, University of Melbourne
Thousands of women have shared their #metoo experiences of sexual abuse. But, unlike the consciousness raising activities of 1970s feminists, hashtag activism suffers from taking place in a space dominated by men.
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Politics + Society
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Ingrid A. Medby, Oxford Brookes University
A photograph of Siv Jensen dressed up as a Native American caused outrage in Norway, not least among the indigenous Sami minority.
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Efe Peker, McGill University
Bill 62 is likely to trigger even tenser controversies on Quebecois identity before next year's provincial election. A historical perspective helps us understand the connection to Quebec sovereignty.
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Katharine H.S. Moon, Wellesley College
Politicians and pundits are overplaying China's influence over Kim Jong-Un.
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