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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...
Minxin Pei
Feb 29, 202418 min read
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....
China Leadership Monitor
Feb 29, 20246 min read
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...
Patricia Thornton
Jun 7, 202319 min read
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...
China Leadership Monitor
Dec 1, 20226 min read
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...
Jennifer Pan
Jun 1, 202215 min read
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...
James Leibold
Dec 1, 202115 min read
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...
Aynne Kokas
Dec 1, 202116 min read
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....
Minxin Pei
Sep 1, 202120 min read
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