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Is China's new ethnic unity law a step towards forced assimilation?

China's new ethnic unity law has come into effect. Rights groups and activists overseas say it will further shrink the rights of minorities. Will the law help forge a shared national identity, as Beijing says? Or is it a step towards forced assimilation? In this episode:  Einar Tangen, Senior F…

William Yang: The Man Who Photographed Queer Australia

For more than 50 years, William Yang has documented Australia's queer community through his camera, creating one of the country's most important social archives. Although his name may not be familiar to everyone, his photographs have captured generations of queer life, from the liberation movement …

The Rest of the World Report | May 22, 2026 — Evening Edition

Weekday morning and evening editions. Saturdays once. Good news on Sundays. All sources labeled. WHAT THE IRAN WAR COST TAIWAN On Thursday, Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao sat before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense and confirmed what Taiwan had not been told. The United States has …

Why Have China-Japan Relations Fallen Apart?

China's suspension of rare earth exports to Japan has now entered its seventh month, with shipments in June again falling to a fraction of their level a year earlier. The restrictions are one sign of a broader collapse in relations between the two countries since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took …

The Memory Tapes Episode 4 - Imagination Nation: Australia's Artists, Writers and Dreamers

Episode Four – Imagination Nation: Australia's Artists, Writers and Dreamers In this episode, Dr Shirleene Robinson looks at culture and Australian creatives. Dr Robinson discusses the long and sometimes challenging, and at other times exhilarating, process by which Australia began to imagine its…

The effects of shuttering Radio Free Asia one year later with Gulchehra Hoja

This week, we'll be discussing China’s newly implemented Ethnic Unity Law, and what that may mean for both members of China's ethnic minorities currently living in China, those living abroad in exile, and journalists covering China and its human rights abuses abroad. We'll also be taking a look at …

Chinese Whispers: who will be Taiwan's next President?

Taiwan goes to the polls in just over a month. This is an election that could have wide repercussions, given the island’s status as a potential flashpoint in the coming years.The incumbent President, Tsai Ing-wen, is coming to the end of two elected terms, meaning that she cannot run again. Her par…

02 | Louisa Lim: Tell It Slant

"Australia has never been a monoculture.  Its history is not a singular narrative.  It is polyphonous, multilingual, plural. Yet the country keeps looping back into the same stale old arguments, driven by domestic politics."   How can we engage meaningfully with Asia when we haven’t come to terms w…