Forum: Difficult Choices Previous Chapter Next Chapter Contents Share Print Taiwan’s Search for a Grand StrategyMalaysia: Taking No Side but Its Own Yearbook 2020: Crisis Introduction: The Year of Crisis2020 — A Gengzi 庚子 YearTroubled TimesForum: Standing on a PrecipiceThe Etymology of the Character Wei 危Chapter 1: The Construction of Political SuperiorityForum: Masks and WolvesMask Diplomacy: Shifting the COVID-19 Narrative?The Rise and Fall of the Wolf WarriorsChapter 2: Beating the Virus in the Chinese CountrysideForum: Down and Out in Hong KongHong Kong’s National Security LawWaste and the Elderly Working Poor in Hong KongChapter 3: Women’s Bodies, Intimate Politics and Feminist Consciousness Amid COVID-19Forum: Cultural CommunicationThe Language of TrustChapter 4: The Chinese Economy: Crisis, Control, Recovery, RefocusForum: Coping Through Laughter and PrayerHumour in CrisisThe Power of Compassion: The Buddhist Approach to COVID-19Chapter 5: China's Post-COVID-19 Stimulus: Dark Clouds, Green LiningForum: Broken River Shattered MountainThe Three Gorges Dam: A Deluge of DoubtsChapter 6: The Future Repeats itself: COVD-19 and its Historical ComorbiditiesForum: Plan for DifficultyThe Dao of CrisisChapter 7: US–China Relations: A Lingering CrisisForum: Difficult ChoicesTaiwan’s Search for a Grand StrategyMalaysia: Taking No Side but Its OwnChapter 8: The Sino-Indian Border Crisis: Chinese Perceptions of Indian NationalismForum: Of Mao and MoneyChinese Loans to Africa: Trap or Treasure?Off the Prachanda Path: Nepali Communists’ Crisis of LegitimacyChapter 9: Economic Power and Vulnerability in Sino-Australian RelationsForum: Playing the Game?China and the Multilateral Trading System: Misunderstandings, Criticisms, and OptionsChapter 10: Chinese Students Abroad in the Time of Pandemic: An Australian ViewChronologyContributors