Beijing stands to reap major rewards by becoming the supplier of choice—or necessity—throughout low- and middle-income countries. China has expanded its international aid efforts in recent years and stressed its commitment to “south-south” cooperation. Winning the vaccine race would be a diplomatic boon. Public concern over the vaccines, however, may pose a roadblock to achieving inoculation targets.
Elina Noor is Director, Political-Security Affairs and Deputy Director, Washington, D.C. Office at the Asia Society Policy Institute. A native of Malaysia, Noor’s work focuses on security developments in Southeast Asia, global governance and technology, and preventing/countering violent extremism.
Previously, Noor was an Associate Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. Prior to that, she was Director of Foreign Policy and Security Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia. While there, she also served as the Secretary of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, a 21-member Track Two regional security network. Between 2017 and 2019, Noor was a member of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace. She is also on the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs’ roster of experts, supporting efforts to build member states’ cyber-related capacity.
Noor read law at Oxford University and obtained an LL.M (Public International Law) from The London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, graduating with distinction at the top of her class. A recipient of the Perdana (Malaysian Prime Minister’s) Fellowship, she also holds an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University, where she was a Women in International Security Scholar.
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a senior reporter for Devex, with a focus on global health.
Elanah Uretsky is medical anthropologist and Associate Professor of International and Global Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV/AIDS in Post-Mao China (Stanford University Press 2016).
Dong told me he photographed Beijing last year for the simple reason of wanting to bear witness. Now, he hopes his photos can serve as a memorial to the immense distress and loss, a situation created by its own government’s compulsion for secrecy and positive images. In his photographs, we see people grappling with an absence of reliable information, responding with desperation, but also resolve and ingenuity.
“Summer Sun” is the pen name of a photo editor and writer.
Dong Lin is a freelance photographer whose work has appeared in books, journals, and magazines, as well as in natural history museum exhibitions.
The National Security Law (NSL) constitutes one of the greatest threats to human rights and the rule of law in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover. This report analyzes the key elements of the NSL, and attempts to gauge the new law’s impact on human rights and the rule of law in Hong Kong. The report also analyzes the first six months of implementation of the new law, seeking to understand how the law is being used, who is being targeted, and which behaviors are being criminalized. The report is based on interviews with Hong Kong actors from various backgrounds, and also a wide-ranging review of the public record, including press reports, court documents, and other publicly-available sources.
