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Cover of Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh

Narco-Empires and Pandemies

Alex de Waal March 20, 2024

Capitalism China Drugs Human Rights

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Historical statue of China's former leader Chairman Mao Tsedong

Starving in Silence and Dizzy with Excess: China then, Ethiopia now

Alex de Waal February 1, 2024

China Ethiopia Famine

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Black and white drawing of people waiting in a long line in front of building with a sign "food", their shadows cast grave stones.

Memory and the Social Meanings of Famine

Alex de Waal June 21, 2023

China Famine Memorialization Rwanda

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How can famines be ended?

Alex de Waal April 19, 2018

Accountability Africa Cambodia China Famine

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SIPRI release world military expenditure data for 2016

Samuel Perlo-Freeman April 24, 2017

Arms trade China Corruption Military spending US

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China steady as she goes while Trump splurges

Samuel Perlo-Freeman March 9, 2017

Arms trade China US

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Black and white sketch of a destitute family selling a child in China

The danger of researching ‘in silos’: lessons from the Chinese famine of 1876-9

Aditya Sarkar September 27, 2016

Atrocities China Famine

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