Exposing China’s ‘unseen war for strategic influence’
A Communist Party congress that is poised to anoint Xi Jinping as China’s top leader for another five years will open in Beijing on Oct. 16, officials announced on Tuesday. Party… Read more »
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China’s discourse power: Ambitions and reality
It is a misconception that China’s leaders aim to export authoritarianism: it is less interested in regime type than in gaining buy-in for its interests, according to a new analysis…. Read more »
Thin end of the wedge: How China is escalating global authoritarianism
China is in the vanguard of normalizing autocratic trends, even within advanced liberal democracies like the UK, towards a political system that rests upon rule by law, a near non-existent… Read more »
China’s new generation ‘wolf warriors’ advance authoritarian influence
An aggressive new generation of diplomatic “wolf warriors” is set to advance Xi Jinping’s mission to mobilize developing countries to defend Beijing from Western criticism and advance China’s authoritarian influence… Read more »
Ideological ‘tug-of-war’ between China’s party-state and society
In the early 1980s China’s admission that it was still only in the “initial stage of socialism” was an ideological bombshell, The Economist observes. It allowed China to introduce capitalism… Read more »
U.S. global influence weakening as China’s sharp power grows
Americans overwhelmingly view China as a “competitor” or an “enemy” to the United States, rather than a “partner.” And it appears that most U.S. adults do not think that their country is… Read more »
33 years after Tiananmen, why China fears civil society
In a classic case of Orwellian narrative distortion, China’s Communist authorities have banned the word ‘lockdown’ and ordered state-controlled media to describe the Zero Covid restrictions that confined 25 million… Read more »
Winning the Web: Is China ‘miles ahead’ in global race for influence?
Authorities across China are tightening security and ramping up surveillance of dissidents ahead of the Tiananmen massacre anniversary, Radio Free Asia’s Gao Feng reports. Ten years after the death of… Read more »
‘Intelligentized warfare’: China’s sharp power exposed – again
A U.S. citizen and four officials from China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) were charged in an indictment, unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn yesterday, with conspiracy and other charges… Read more »
‘Crisis of democracy?’ China shows more consequential crisis of autocracy
“Crisis of democracy” is a cliché of our time. But what about the even more consequential crisis of autocracy? Just watch the meltdowns in China, Russia, Turkey and arguably Africa’s… Read more »