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“Det här handlar inte bara om att förhindra global uppvärmning, det handlar om grundläggande överlevnad (…) Av Kinas 367 städer lever 80 procent inte ens upp till den interna kinesiska standarden för luftkvalitet. Det här är ett fruktansvärt stort problem, som växer exponentiellt”, said Swanström.

“In a country that is destabilized in this way, and which is involved in a war on the other side of its border, the likelihood that things are going to get worse is quite significant”

“The outcry over the Nazi costumes in Taiwan, while obviously offensive to those educated on this terrible period in history, should remind us of the dangers of cultural relativism,” said Brennan.

“The decline of the HDP means that more Kurds are joining the PKK. According to Jenkins, “an entire generation is being radicalized”.

On Tuesday, 13 December 2016, ISDP hosted a forum with Dr. Zhang Chunyan, currently a visiting fellow at the Institute. Dr. Zhang Chunyan began by outlining her work on the US-Indian Cyber Security partnership. This included outlining the major developments in the area, the political and economic factors driving the collaborations between the two governments […]

On November 11, 2016, the Institute for Security and Development Policy organized a forum on Sino-Nordic Relations: Opportunities and the Way Ahead. The event aimed to discuss ways for China and the Nordic countries to improve cooperation and explore new possibilities. The event started with a keynote speech by H.E. Ambassador Chen Yuming, Ambassador Plenipotentiary […]

On Tuesday, 13 December 2016, ISDP hosted a forum with Dr. Jianjun Ding, currently a visiting fellow at the Institute. Dr. Jianjun Ding presented the findings of her research into the Chinese Pakistani relations in the context of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. In the course of this she touched on the infrastructure, domestic political and […]

December 13, 2016: Gareth Jenkins, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at ISDP, appeared in Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen’s documentary “Mensch Erdogan! Die Geheimnisse des türkischen Präsidenten”. Watch the full documentary here.

December 13, 2016: Niklas Swanström, Director of ISDP, was interviewed on Aftonbladet TV about President Elect Donald Trump’s influence on US-China relations. Watch the full interview in Alfonbladet’s news report Så påverkar Trump relationen med Kina here.    

On November 16th, the Institute hosted a forum on the mid- to long-term future of Kazakhstan. Svante Cornell, co-founder and director of ISDP, and Johan Engvall, non-resident Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, spoke about the topic and their Silk Road Paper “Kazakhstan 2041: The Next Twenty-Five Years”, which […]