Two key elections in 2024 will influence how the Taiwan issue unfolds in the coming years - the Presidential elections in Taiwan in January and the US Presidential elections in November. How will the two new Presidents complicate what is possibly the greatest geopolitical challenge of the 21st century? In this video, Professor Kerry Brown, Director of the Lau China Institute and author of 'The Taiwan Story', explains the Taiwan issue, how it could determine the world's future, and the complex relationship between China, Taiwan and USA.

Globally, income inequality within countries is on the rise, particularly in emerging economies such as India, China and Brazil. What can these countries do to tackle this issue? In this video, Dr Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez explains how Mexico, under the the government of the leftist party Morena and former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, saw a significant decline in poverty and inequality, and the challenges ahead for the new President Claudia Sheinbaum. The data on poverty and inequality in Mexico cited in this video is from the official CONEVAL (the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy). This video is part of the Poll to Poll 2024 series by the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy exploring the biggest election year in world history. Learn more about the series: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/poll-to-poll-2024

Professor Kerry Brown, Director of King's Lau China Institute, says that despite the fact that Britain’s links with China go back over 430 years to the time of Elizabeth I, most British people are unaware of how deep and long lasting relations with China have been, and how consequential for the rest of the world. That history, he says, is not just academic. ”It has made a deep mark on the daily lives of each of our countries, and gives a tangible place from which we can understand and try to relate to each other, despite all the differences and strains in relations in recent times.” A better understanding by the British of what Brown calls their ‘China story’ would help to avoid some of the turbulence experienced over the last decade or so. Professor Kerry Brown's latest book 'The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power' offers a comprehensive single-volume history of this relationship.

The use of technology in reproduction is not new. But egg freezing is unlike technologies of the past in how it could change our understanding of reproduction.   In this video, we explore Dr Lucy van de Wiel’s research on how egg freezing is shifting the focus from making babies to making fertility, and what that means for women and their reproductive choices.