China ‘turning Hong Kong into a Tibet or a Xinjiang’
Hong Kong could face a worse fate than becoming “just another Chinese city”, according to a prominent expert. “I think the risks are greater than that, because Hong Kong is… Read more »
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Counter China with three Ds – Domestic, Deterrence and Democracy
The foreign policy pillars of a new U.S. administration would likely be driven by three Ds: Domestic, Deterrence and Democracy, argues Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of the New America think-tank and former… Read more »
China: ‘Between Conflict and Accommodation’?
The State Department announced Wednesday it is appointing a special coordinator to oversee relations with Tibet, The Hill reports. Robert Destro, who serves as assistant secretary of the Bureau of… Read more »
How to blunt China’s efforts to shift global norms
China’s efforts to secure a larger role for itself in multiple international institutions have generated questions about the scale of its ambitions and the ‘sharp power’ tools it will use… Read more »
Post-Pandemic World? ‘China’s Narrative Power Play’
Supposing that the world order can be placed somewhere in the spectrum between constitutionalized and authoritarian, China’s narrative power-play during the Covid outbreak might have moved the post-pandemic order closer… Read more »
‘Gigantic Empire vs Tiny Poet’ – China’s Solzhenitsyn
In the middle of the night on May 30, 2020, more than fifty armed police surrounded an ordinary residential building in Chuxiong City, Yunnan Province and arrested Wang Zang, an… Read more »
China’s soft power headed for a hard landing?
Views of China have grown more negative in recent years across many advanced economies, and unfavorable opinion has soared over the past year, a new 14-country Pew Research Center survey… Read more »
Battle of Ideas: The Belt and Road Initiative’s role in China’s political warfare
In the wake of Beijing’s (supposedly) superior coronavirus-busting effort, Chinese officials and state media outlets have been relentlessly marketing their (authoritarian) governance system as superior, while denigrating the (democratic) U.S…. Read more »
Making Hong Kong China
Imagine you live in a freewheeling city like New York or London—one of the world’s leading financial, educational, and cultural centers. Then imagine that one of the most infamous… Read more »
When China’s sharp power fails
Beijing’s influence operations provide conclusive evidence that the United States faces a struggle with two “revisionist” powers, Russia and China, former National Security Adviser HR McMaster argues in his new… Read more »