A cautionary tale for academic journal editors. Every single one of these very convincing-looking references is fake. Thanks AI for making us all more suspicious of each other and raising the barriers to publication...

Something I've noticed about the UK 'assisted dying' debate is that - over the past 34 years, MPs' mentions of 'palliative care' peak when the question of assisted dying is being debated. But once the debate is done, MPs forget about palliative care. Here's the Hansard ngram...

China's new self-declared 'baseline' around Scarborough Shoal - almost in compliance with international law (except for being entirely without historical justification) asiatimes.com/2024/11/did-...

Great to meet a couple of journalistic legends and veteran ‘Asia Hands’ - Jon Swain and Michael Sheridan - at Michael’s book talk today.

South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia (2014)
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Vietnam: Rising Dragon (2020, 2nd Ed)
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

A Brief History of Vietnam (2022)
www.tuttlepublishing.com/vietnam/a-br...

The Invention of China (2020)
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...