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East Asia Team

Hello! We are the East Asia Research Group and we are interested in issues including:

  • Politics and elections

  • Environmental policies

  • Natural disasters, pollution, adaptation plans

  • Tech policy and development

  • Education

  • Arts, culture, and entertainment

  • Cultural policies and interstate interactions

  • International security

  • Comparative politics

  • Hong Kong and China relations

  • Japanese society

Research Interests

Kristyna:

  • Release of Fukushima radioactive waters + nuclear plan

  • Climate change, China, Japan, Renewables

  • Japanese fishing industry, pollution, whaling policies, Opinion from China-SK

Cailey:

  • US-Vietnam Relations and US-China rivalry

  • China’s aggressiveness in the South China Sea and its economic consequences

  • Taiwan Presidential Election 2024

  • National identity

  • Taiwan-Chinese mainland relationship

  • Domestic politics

Gauthier:

  • Environment, fisheries policy, China and seaweed, Japan’s importation

  • Arts and culture, East Asian politics

  • China’s relations with Africa, governmental strategies

Letitia:

  • Taiwan election and potential impacts on China/HK

  • Popular culture in HK movies/East Asia

  • Other elections

  • HK immigration waves/more lenient policies of countries

  • Hong Kong's largest and most impactful storm