Sparks: The samizdat movement challenging China’s Communist Party
A “growing number of Chinese see the Party’s monopoly of the past as the root of their country’s current authoritarian malaise,” according to a new book by Ian Johnson, a… Read more »
Category: China
Will the New Cold War split Africa?
The conventional wisdom that the new geopolitical competition will not spread to the global South, as it did during the first Cold War, is wrong, at least when it comes… Read more »
Beijing Rules? China’s threat is geopolitical and ideological, not economic
On a host of fronts, China’s domineering leader seems to be fighting fires, The Post’s Ishaan Tharoor observes: Abroad, President Xi Jinping is confronted by a hardening consensus against… Read more »
China behind ‘largest ever’ digital influence ops
People with ties to China’s law enforcement agencies conducted the largest known covert digital influence operation aimed at discrediting the West and promoting Beijing’s agenda across more than 50 social… Read more »
Winning the influence war with China: Maximize foreign aid for strategic competition
Competition with China is playing out not only in the sea lanes of the Indo-Pacific but in the parliaments, board rooms, and even local councils of developing nations. Military strength is… Read more »
China’s economic troubles could signal ‘foundational decline’
NEW: CSIS experts dive into China’s political warfare campaign, including intel ops, cyber ops, information & disinformation ops, united front activity, irregular military actions, and economic coercion, in our most… Read more »
Russia and China add ‘surge capacity’ to Africa’s kleptocrats
Russia and China provide surge capacity to Africa’s kleptocratic networks, says a new report from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 showcased the… Read more »
Dangers of detachment: Learning to live with autocracies?
In the quarter century after the Cold War ended, Western countries largely believed—or at least hoped—that the Soviet Union’s dissolution would inaugurate a new normal of benign relations between democracies and autocracies,… Read more »
Chinese media’s Great Leap Backwards
Ten years after Xi Jinping took the helm in China, Europe’s democracies have become more aligned on how to deal with Beijing, according to a new analysis. However, approaches towards… Read more »
Is ‘Great Power Competition’ an illusion?
Although some aspects of the Cold War hold true today, such as the geopolitical rivalry between two powerful countries with dramatically different political systems and ideologies, the integration and interdependence… Read more »