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{"title":"Revolution derailed: The struggle for media control and media freedom in China","authors":"Wenfang Tang,&nbsp;Yang Zhang","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12721","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on data from the 2018 China Internet Survey, this article analyzes the channels through which Chinese citizens acquire political information and how such information changes people's political attitude and behavior. It finds that while many people particularly among the younger generations are using social media, an equally large number of people continue to rely on the officially controlled TV news for political and social information. As hoped by those who want to bring down the authoritarian regime through social media, the Internet contributes to questioning the government and developing liberal ideas among its users but fails to promote bottom-up political participation. Interestingly, government-controlled TV programming meets its goals of improving regime support as well as mobilizing mass political participation. The authoritarian government also seems effective in pushing social media into its orbit of political control. These findings suggest that techno-Utopianism exaggerated the role of technology in liberal democratization.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71963250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indian media provide a positive account of Modi's outreach to the Pacific Islands","authors":"Gaurav Pathak,&nbsp;Parkhi Saxena","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71959243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of the geopolitical status quo vis-à-vis the Rohingya crisis on the social, economic, and political aspects of Bangladesh","authors":"Iqthyer Uddin Md Zahed","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12716","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The long-standing Rohingya crisis has become complicated due to geopolitical complexities, and more than a million Rohingya refugees remain stranded in Bangladesh. This situation has had a dramatic impact on Bangladesh. Shortages of international funding exacerbate the situation further, and a regional security threat could be created if the current situation continues unabated. The empirical research undertaken in this paper examines the impact of the Rohingya refugees on the social, economic, and political aspects of Bangladesh from a micro level perspective. This study follows a qualitative research methodology that uses analysis of documents and analytical interpretations of 20 in-depth interviews from Bangladesh. Environmental destruction and the government's dilemma with controlling law and order are apparent consequences of the Rohingya influx. Competition in the labor market, economic hardships, acquiring land, and deforestation create a conflict between the host community and the Rohingya refugee group. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71959241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"China's Leninist State and strategic relations with the United States: Chiang's KMT in Nanjing Decade and implications for the Chinese Communist Party after 1949","authors":"Dean P. Chen","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12714","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article revisits Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang (KMT) party-state during the Nanjing Decade (1927–37) of the Republic of China (ROC) and assesses how the actions and ideological propensities of the Nationalist regime affected prewar China's external relations with the United States. While both the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were constituted as Leninist parties in the 1920s, due to the Soviet Union's military and economic aid for Sun Yat-sen's republican revolution, they had very different political objectives and socioeconomic perspectives on China's state/nation-building. Consequently, the KMT's and CCP's respective attitudes towards the United States also differed. Though Leninism is an antithesis to Western liberal democracy, it is not inevitable for a Leninist dictatorship to engage in confrontations with Washington, as the central leadership's inclinations and actions would determine how China approaches America. Chiang's Confucian Leninism opened up the friendly ties with the United States in 1928, which eventually consolidated into a strong U.S.-ROC alliance during WWII and beyond, despite the KMT's autocracy. The essay will contrast briefly with the post-1949 People's Republic of China (PRC), as the CCP experienced from Mao Zedong's radical Leninism, Deng Xiaoping/Jiang Zemin/Hu Jintao's consultative Leninism, to Xi Jinping's expansionist Leninism today. The evolving CCP positions have also affected the extent of cooperation and hostility between Beijing and Washington and illustrated how the changing attributes of the Chinese Leninist regime are crucial in determining U.S.-PRC strategic trajectories.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71959242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Voter's gratification in using online news and the implications on political landscape in Malaysia","authors":"Mumtaz Aini Alivi","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12718","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent years, democratic societies have relied heavily on online news to enlighten the public on current issues in politics. This study investigates voters' gratification in using online news and its implication on the political landscape. This study examined how information seeking, social utility, guidance/judgment, and personal fulfillment drawn from the Uses and Gratification theory, change Malaysians' voting decisions. The survey included a sample of 700 registered voters from the Malaysian Klang Valley. The data were gathered using convenience and purposive sampling using nonprobability sampling technique. Analysis from Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling using SmartPLS 3.0 demonstrated that information seeking, social utility, guidance, and personal fulfillment could positively determine the people's vote choice. Using online news for guidance is the strongest predictor of the people's vote choice. This study provides important implications where the government can capitalize on the effectiveness of online media to reach the public and rationalize major policy decisions. Future research may utilize a longitudinal approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71959244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The political foundation of mainstream media trust in East and Southeast Asia: A cross-national analysis","authors":"Alex Chuan-hsien Chang,&nbsp;Yen-Chen Tang","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12715","url":null,"abstract":"Declining levels of trust in the media in Western democracies have drawn the attention of political scientists, but much less attention has been paid to East Asia. This paper sets out to examine the logic behind media trust in three different types of regimes in East and Southeast Asia: countries with, partial, and no press freedom, respectively. Our findings show that while respondents' trust in government and support for socioideological control of the government have consistent and significant associations with their media trust across all 12 countries, Internet usage, online political participation, support for media censorship, and patriotic belief have different associations with the variable being studied as the degree of press freedom varies. The findings indicate that citizens are well aware of the role mass media plays in the political system and thus their trust in the media reflects the expectation‐perception gap of the government‐media relationship accordingly.","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71959245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Banking on Beijing: The aims and impacts of China's overseas development program By Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, Austin Strange, Michael J. Tierney, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 374. HB US$99.99, PB US$34.99. ISBN: 978-1108474108","authors":"David Skidmore","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12719","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71951662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: Global health governance, migrant labour, and international health Crises By Anoma P. Veere, Florian Schneider, Catherine Yuk-ping Lo (Eds.), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2022. pp. 272. E 117,00 (Hardback). ISBN: 9789463720977","authors":"André Laliberté","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12720","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although COVID-19 may soon be history, gaining a better understanding of its origins and how to address the multidimensional challenges it has raised will keep scholars busy for years. However, one of the challenges for policy-makers will be to select the appropriate measures necessary to address public health issues in ways that are efficient while maintaining trust with public authorities. This book is timely and offersed some pointers in that direction, but it left open some important gaps that I wish could have been better addressed. The texts presented in this book offered much analysis of the major public health issue that has affected the world since January 2020, in conjunction with one key aspect of the global political economy, labor migration, that has complexified the spread of the contagion. The selection of case studies, circumscribed regionally, included cases that are too extremely dissimilar to generate feasible policy prescriptions. On the other hand, the discussion of migrant labor that is announced as a key dimension of global health governance, did not include mention of some of the key actors.</p><p>Most of the case studies assembled here, included in the series “Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia,” have been found in East Asia, except for Indonesia and Malaysia. Two chapters each dealt with China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and three chapters dealt with the response of international organizations. The overarching argument presented by the authors was that Asia is diverse and therefore that countries in the region have offered a wide range of responses to the pandemic. This wide-open conclusion called for more research and more structured comparisons that could address more specific issues, such as trust in health authorities, improvement in global health governance, access to all for public health, and reform of labor migration. The selection of case studies presented in this book would have been better if it had adopted a most comparable cases research design, with smaller but more useful case selections, more suited to identify appropriate policies. Hence, while measures adopted in Taiwan and South Korea can yield useful lessons for policymakers in other pluralist democracies in Europe and North America, the Chinese and Vietnamese cases would be less likely to do so.</p><p>On the other hand, the inclusion of Indonesia and Malaysia in this book begged the question of the noninclusion of other major countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Philippines, which are among the top 10 sending countries for migrants worldwide. Since the book announced a discussion of transnational labor migration in relation to public health in Asia, it would have benefited from the insights gained from these countries. I am aware that these additions could have made for a more voluminous book, but as pointed out above, only one chapter per country would have left space for these very important issues. Another lim","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71951663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What does America think about the Senkaku Islands? An analysis of US think tank policy and strategy positions","authors":"Mio Ando","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12706","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study conducts the first systematic review of major United States (US) think tank policy and strategy positions regarding defense of the Senkaku Islands. An analytical framework for content analysis is created and then applied to 76 documents spanning the 2010–2020 period. The policy orientations of 10 leading think tanks are identified, as is the strategic rationale behind their arguments. Because think tanks in the US exert tremendous influence on policymaking, the thick description conducted in this study can shed a great deal of light not only on the past but also the future scope of potential US policy options in the East China Sea.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50152696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lesson-drawing under authoritarianism: generosity and cost control in China's hospital payment reforms","authors":"Armin Mueller,&nbsp;Tobias ten Brink","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12709","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Local policy experimentation was a driving force behind China's economic progress, but its results in the field of social policy are more ambiguous. This article takes a lesson-drawing perspective on the transfer of international hospital payment reforms to Chinese cities, focusing on the Urban Employees' Basic Medical Insurance. We distinguish two waves of reform. The first wave was driven by local government initiatives dominated by simplified versions of international models which lacked strong prospective payment components (inspirations) and protected local bureaucratic and hospital interests. The second wave was driven by central government intervention dominated by syntheses and adaptations with strong prospective payment components and was more oriented toward patients' interests. Data were collected via expert interviews, administrative documents, academic studies, and newspaper articles. We find that elements of social policy are transferred depending on central–local interaction, with pressure from the center needed to overcome local bureaucratic self-interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.12709","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50137374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}