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Yanqiu Rachel Zhou

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Professor, Social Sciences, McMaster University

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks at a campaign rally on July 22, 2024, in Middletown, Ohio. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

July 28, 2024

What Vance’s nomination speech tells us about his vision of the American dream and the country’s future

Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, McMaster University

JD Vance had the opportunity to share stories of loss and resilience during his nomination acceptance speech. Instead, he chose to focus on melancholia and self-victimization.

People wearing protective face masks walk on a nearly deserted plaza outside Canada Place in Vancouver on March 14, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

March 17, 2020

The global effort to tackle the coronavirus face mask shortage

Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, McMaster University

The face mask shortage shows how governments can either work together with global supply chains in positive ways or revert to state-centric policies that prevent us from dealing with COVID-19.

A motorcyclist rides across a bridge in Wuhan, China, in January 2020. The city as banned most vehicle use downtown in an effort to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Chinatopix via AP, File

February 2, 2020

Wuhan, the coronavirus and the world: Thinking beyond isolation

Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, McMaster University

Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the 2019-nCoV outbreak, is now under lockdown. What does that mean for its 11 million citizens, and for the rest of the world?

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