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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
China's Climate Strategy
Chinese president Xi Jinping has put forth a set of significant commitments in response to the threat of global climate change. He has...
Elizabeth Economy
Jun 1, 202119 min read
Threading the Needle: Balancing Security and Development in the 14th Five-Year Plan
Due to the deterioration of China’s external environment in general, and its escalating tensions with the United States in particular,...
Minxin Pei
Jun 1, 202118 min read
Xi’s Anti-Corruption Campaign: An All-Purpose Governing Tool
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s signature anti-corruption campaign has attracted attention because of its high-profile investigations and...
Christopher Carothers
Mar 1, 202120 min read
Grid Management: China’s Latest Institutional Tool of Social Control
The Chinese government began to implement a new form of social control – grid management – about fifteen years ago. On paper, the...
Minxin Pei
Mar 1, 202118 min read
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