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Chin-Huat Wong is a professor of political science at the Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development at Sunway University in Malaysia.

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  1. China’s Civilizational Challenge
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    China’s Civilizational Challenge

    Dec 19, 2019 Chin-Huat Wong argues that China's formula for governing Hong Kong contradicts its most fundamental sensibilities.

  2. Can Multiparty Democracy Work in Multiethnic Malaysia?
    Jailed former opposition leader and current federal opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images

    Can Multiparty Democracy Work in Multiethnic Malaysia?

    May 23, 2018 Chin-Huat Wong says that, despite a historic vote, electoral engineering is needed to address ethnic and religious divisions.

  3. Will Malaysia’s Islamization Change Course?
    Former prime minister and PPBM chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad is giving a speech Faris Hadziq/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

    Will Malaysia’s Islamization Change Course?

    Mar 8, 2018 Chin-Huat Wong hopes that the upcoming general election boosts the standing of the country's nonagenarian comeback kid.

  4. China’s Choice
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    China’s Choice

    Oct 15, 2014 Chin-Huat Wong outlines the Chinese government's three options for confronting the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.

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    The Language of Political Control

    Robert Skidelsky views recent linguistic innovations as manipulative efforts to compel “correct” thought and perception.
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    Globalization vs. Democracy

    Kaushik Basu highlights the contradictions and vulnerabilities inherent in the current international order.
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    The West’s New Infrastructure Imperative

    Diane Coyle explains why a broader conception of the term could reflect a renewed interest in investing in the future.
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    An Iran-Israel War?

    Iran’s mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, as well as Western countries like the United States. The urgent need to defuse tensions – starting by ending Israel’s war in Gaza and pursuing a lasting political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is obvious, but can it be done?

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    What a Climate-Aligned IMF Would Look Like

    Mohamed Nasheed & Rakesh Mohan explain how the managing director can fully position the institution to help the most vulnerable countries.
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    The Key to Transforming African Health

    Jayati Ghosh highlights efforts to foster scientific innovation and drug manufacturing on the continent.
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    China’s Rebalancing Imperative

    Stephen S. Roach

    The most successful development stories almost always involve major shifts in the sources of economic growth, which in turn allow economies to reinvent themselves out of necessity or by design. In China, the interplay of mounting external pressures, lagging household consumption, and falling productivity will increasingly shape China’s policy choices in the years ahead.

     explains why the Chinese authorities should switch to a consumption- and productivity-led growth model.
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    From Welfare State to Safe State in Latin America

    Jorge G. Castañeda & Carlos Ominami

    Designing a progressive anti-violence strategy that delivers the safety for which a huge share of Latin Americans crave is perhaps the most difficult challenge facing many of the region’s governments. But it is also the most important.

     urge the region’s progressives to start treating security as an essential component of social protection.
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    The Urgency of Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

    José Antonio Ocampo highlights the need for a comprehensive mechanism to deliver relief to low- and middle-income countries.

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