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China-USA-Taiwan. Recovery of China-US ties sees ‘troublemaking from Taiwan island’ (Yang Sheng and Zhang Changyue, Global Times)

Biden Photo: VCG On the same day when the top leaders of China and the US held a phone conversation, which brings some hopes for...

Defense-Japan-Vietnam. Japan seeks to ease military restriction through defense transfer deal with Vietnam: experts (Global Times)

The national flags of Vietnam and Japan Photo: CFP Japan and Vietnam signed on Saturday an agreement on the transfer of defense equipment and technology,...

China. Wang Yi’s visit to neighbors expected to improve cooperation, not to counter US influence (Xu Keyue in Beijing and Zhang Dan in Nanning,...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets Cambodia's Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn (right) with an elbow bump during a meeting at the...

TechInnovation-Social Media-Extremist Contents. How Salafi-Jihadists Circumvent Facebook’s Community Standards With Mythical and Eudaimonic Content (Catherine Bouko, GNET)

In November 2019, the European Union celebrated a small victory: over 26,000 items of self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS)-supporting content, as well as channels and...

Conspiracism-Extremism-Sacred Values. Conspiracism, Extremism and the Battle Over Sacred Values (Gerard Gill, GNET)

On 24 July 2021 in Australia, against the backdrop of a city and state sinking further into crisis, a rally of thousands took place. The central...

TechInnovation-Extremist Contents. Fashwave: Extremist Audio Formats Present Complex Challenges (GNET)

Extremist content is frequently coded–-both to escape moderation and to signal to others with similar ideologies. In many cases, the nature of this content...

TechInnovation-Gaming-Extremist Use. Let’s Talk about Games, Baby: Extremist Use of Gaming (-Adjacent) Platforms (Linda Schlegel, GNET)

In 2020, the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator issued a warning that extremists are increasingly present in digital gaming spaces and in 2021, the EU Terrorism Situation and...

TechInnovation-Digital-Radicalisation Processes. As You Like It: User Types in Digital Gamified Radicalisation Processes (Linda Schlegel, GNET)

Videogames, gaming-related content, game aesthetics, gaming (-adjacent) platforms, gamification, and their potential link to digital extremist content and digitally-mediated radicalisation processes, are an increasingly popular topic...

Nepal. The fall of communism in Nepal (Hari Bansh Jha, ORF)

Until the general elections in 2017, nobody in Nepal believed that the communists would be able to grab power and would prove to be...

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