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2026 Middle East Conflict and Its Ripple Effects on the Global Economy: Potential Supply Chain Chaos Beyond Oil
The ongoing geopolitical conflict in the Middle East, escalating in early March 2026, has disrupted global supply chains, limiting transit through the Strait of Hormuz and delaying international energy exports. Beyond crude oil prices, a broader structural economic impact involves the sudden constraint ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/2026-middle-east-conflict-and-its-ripple-effects-on-the-global-economy-potential-supply-chain-chaos-beyond-oil
How China’s very real national security fears shaped its reform plan for Hong Kong – South China Morning Post op-ed by David Zweig
The South China Morning Post published an op-ed written by IEMS’ David Zweig on China’s worries regarding Western threats to its natural security as the main motivation to restrict Hong Kong’s political reform process. A partial excerpt of David Zweig’s editorial can be found ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2014/how-china-s-very-real-national-security-fears-shaped-its-reform-plan-for-hong-kong---south-china-morning-post-op-ed-by-david-zweig
Uighur scholar Tohti jailed for life for inciting separatism – IEMS’ Barry Sautman comments for Bloomberg article
Bloomberg quoted IEMS’ Barry Sautman on the life sentence handed down to Ilham Tohti, a noted Uighur scholar in China’s turbulent Xinjiang province. Observers were shocked at what appeared to be one of China’s most oppressive sentences in recent memory, handed down to Tohti due to his running of a ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2014/sautman-bloomberg-uighur-scholar-tohti-jailed-for-life-for-inciting-separatism
The Associated Press features commentary from IEMS’ Barry Sautman on possibility of one-child policy for China’s ethnic Uighurs
In an Associated Press article on China’s heavy-handed restrictions on the Uighur ethnic minority group in the country’s Northwest, IEMS’ Barry Sautman was cited for his commentary on the possibility of and backlash to a potential “one-child policy” imposed on the minority group, ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2014/associated-press-commentary-from-iems-barry-sautman-on-possibility-of-one-child-policy-for-chinas-ethnic-uighurs
The Diplomat cites IEMS’ Barry Sautman on the Deaths of 5 Tibetan Protesters in Policy Custody in western Sichuan
The Diplomat cited IEMS’ Barry Sautman in a report discussing the death of five Tibetans in police custody following an August protest where police fired on a group of unarmed participants in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan. As Barry Sautman commented on the ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2014/diplomat-cites-iems-barry-sautman-on-deaths-of-5-tibetan-protesters
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