... such receptivity, attenuating the effectiveness of these appeals. Email: < [email protected] >. Email: < [email protected] >. © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 recruitment civic voluntarism COVID-19 China survey experiment Civic organizations...

...Dionysios Stivas; Alistair Cole Securitization was a common practice of governments during the first phases of the COVID-19 outbreak. To successfully securitize a pandemic, a government has to convince its citizens of the magnitude of the threat. Trusted governments should be able to do this more...

...Esther E. Song COVID-19 generated significant anti-Chinese sentiment in South Korea. Domestic elite-level narratives regarding China at the pandemic’s onset were highly polarized: conservative parties advocated border shutdowns, emphasizing China as originating the virus, while progressive parties...

...Ehito Kimura After another surge in cases, COVID-19 slowly receded from Indonesia’s foreground in 2022 as restrictions were lifted, schools and businesses reopened, and the economy rebounded. The Jokowi government posted several legislative victories while also testing the guardrails of democracy...

.... The catchphrase “today’s Ukraine is tomorrow’s Taiwan” has circulated uneasily in the news and social media across the island. Email: < [email protected] > © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 Taiwan China threat Nancy Pelosi cross-Strait relationship COVID-19...

...Li Narangoa As in 2020, the biggest stories in Mongolia in 2021 and 2022 were elections, COVID-19, and how to cope with the contracting economy. At the end of the year, Mongolia was struggling to meet public health challenges and to recover from the economic downturn. Both the government...

.... Trade dependence entry ban economic vulnerability China COVID-19 When Coronavirus Disease 2019 (covid-19) began to spread in the early weeks of 2020, one of the policy decisions faced by governments worldwide was whether to impose entry restrictions on people traveling from China, the epicenter...

...Taberez Ahmed Neyazi; Burhanuddin Muhtadi; Sourabh Bikas Paul How does economic hardship during a crisis affect people’s evaluation of the political leadership? In this paper, we investigate how the negative impact of an exogenous event like COVID-19 interacts with other important phenomena which...

... will usher in a new era for the Communist Party since the economic reform. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 China US-China relations COVID-19 Xi Jinping Chinese diplomacy In this journal a year ago, I noted that to cope with a series of perhaps the most serious...

...Adam P. Liff For Japan in 2021, COVID-19-related disruption was again the dominant storyline. Its impact transcended societal consequences to affect Japan’s economy, politics, and foreign affairs. It frustrated Japan’s economic recovery and, for the second time in as many years, contributed...

... values of life and safety are more important than individual freedoms and rights. The government closed the spaces visited by confirmed COVID-19 victims, disclosed their movements to the public through mobile phones, and quarantined even uninfected contacts for two weeks. During the regional pandemic...

...Sukhee Han; Dongchan Kim Continuing the trendline of 2020, North Korea’s key priorities in 2021 were to tighten its belt economically and control the COVID-19 pandemic. Those two goals were related. With its healthcare system no match for such a public health crisis, the government continued its...

...T.Y. Wang China heightened its military pressure on Taiwan, but president Tsai In-wen defiantly resisted Beijing’s coercion and overcame domestic criticism. With a cooperative public and international support, Taipei quelled an unexpected COVID-19 outbreak. The bullish economy continues...

...Paul Schuler COVID-19 and the Party Congress dominated the headlines in Vietnam in 2021. This essay reviews the leadership changes after the Party Congress and the challenges the new leaders faced in confronting the Delta variant of COVID-19. It also considers other economic challenges that have...

...Kai Ostwald Malaysia remained firmly in the grip of both the COVID-19 pandemic and economic turmoil in 2021. Ongoing political instability led to an emergency proclamation that suspended Parliament for the first time since 1969, followed by an unprecedented public rebuke of political leaders...

...Joel Sawat Selway In 2021, COVID-19 spread like wildfire throughout Thailand, with the government being routinely accused of mismanagement and facing two censures in parliament as a result. The military-aligned government also faced continuing protests against its rule. As the year progressed...

...Lee Morgenbesser In 2021, Cambodia confronted the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amid a surge in case numbers and total deaths, the virus brought new and profound consequences for the Southeast Asian nation. A spate of decrees, laws, and provisions provided Hun Sen’s government ways...

...Julio C. Teehankee In his last year in office, populist Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte faced the deadly surge of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 pandemic. His government continued to struggle with the health crisis despite implementing one of the most heavy-handed lockdowns in the world...

...Boike Rehbein The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a weakening of the formal economy and a crisis of the informal economy in Laos. The population has responded with a partial return to subsistence farming, which almost the entire rural population had been engaged in anyway. The return to subsistence...

...Kristine Eck The COVID-19 pandemic hit Nepal harder in 2021 than in the previous year, resulting in thousands dead, millions of livelihoods lost, food access constricted, educations upended, and social and economic devastation. In the midst of this, political leaders were preoccupied with power...