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![Sex and Myth: Reckoning with Rural China’s Haphazard Sex Education](https://thepolitic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/china-e1579814492317-scaled.jpg)
Sex and Myth: Reckoning with Rural China’s Haphazard Sex Education
Sex is a taboo topic in China. People rarely publicly discuss sex; the “birds and the bees” talk from parent to child is also much less common than in the West.
![In a Name: North Macedonia and Greece Clash over Historical and Cultural Legacies](https://thepolitic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/602x338_cmsv2_c0fc4e7f-c1a0-5a7b-99db-942fc87b46b6-3174188-e1579034566111.jpg)
In a Name: North Macedonia and Greece Clash over Historical and Cultural Legacies
To Greeks today, the northern country’s name—even with “North” in front of it—seems a blatant appropriation of their culture.
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Resistance Burns at Hong Kong Polytechnic
A fiery standoff at one of the city’s major universities culminated with police storming the barricades early Monday morning.
![Half the Sky: #MeToo in China](https://thepolitic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/china-metoo-820x500-e1571942337341.jpg)
Half the Sky: #MeToo in China
“#MeToo has become a politically ‘sensitive’ issue in China now, so we cannot study it any more, even in academia. I hope you can also understand that we need to be anonymous in the #MeToo related issues.”
![Resistance in Whispers: a Deal for Peace in Afghanistan, and a Fight by the Forgotten](https://thepolitic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/594106-1498559960-b-e1571942170506.jpg)
Resistance in Whispers: a Deal for Peace in Afghanistan, and a Fight by the Forgotten
A deal for peace in Afghanistan, and a fight by the forgotten.