Piercing the Veil of Secrecy: The Surveillance Role of China’s MSS and MPS
China has two security services responsible for domestic surveillance. The “political security protection” bureau of the Ministry of...
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China Leadership Monitor
- Feb 29
- 6 min
CLM Insights Interview with Minxin Pei
Minxin Pei. The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 2024....
Patricia Thornton
- Jun 7, 2023
- 19 min
Grid Meets Web: How COVID-19 Extended the Party-State’s Social Control Capacity at the Grassroots
Although Xi Jinping is widely seen, both inside and outside of China, as a vigorous centralizer of political power, the party-state...
China Leadership Monitor
- Dec 1, 2022
- 6 min
CLM Insights Interview with Josh Chin and Liza Lin
Josh Chin and Liza Lin. Surveillance State: China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control. St. Martin’s Press. Sept. 2022. Insights...
Jennifer Pan
- Jun 1, 2022
- 15 min
Controlling China’s Digital Ecosystem: Observations on Chinese Social Media
Nowhere is the effort to control the flow of digital information more extensive and sustained than it is in China. The Chinese Communist...
James Leibold
- Dec 1, 2021
- 15 min
The Not-so Model Minority: Xi Jinping’s Mongolian Crackdown
Xi Jinping and the party Center in Beijing are in the midst of a far-reaching rectification campaign in Inner Mongolia. The introduction...
Aynne Kokas
- Dec 1, 2021
- 16 min
China's 2021 Data Security Law: Grand Data Strategy with Looming Implementation Challenges
China’s 2021 Data Security Law (DSL) presents a transformative vision of the country’s data management practices to intensify domestic...
Minxin Pei
- Sep 1, 2021
- 20 min
The CCP’s Domestic Security Taskmaster: The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission
The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party oversees the vast coercive apparatus of the party-state....
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