Waking up from the China Dream in Central and Eastern Europe
After a period of infatuation, promise fatigue and changing geopolitics have led to policy changes from Vilnius to Bucharest.
2021
Covert propaganda operations in plain sight: The CCP united front system’s media network in Europe
Policy brief on the implications of the China News Service’s domination of Europe’s Chinese-language media space.
Xi’s China dream versus the Olympic dream: Beijing 2022 and the CCP’s ‘mutually beneficial’ relationship with the IOC president
A panel discussion on ‘Promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal’ at the UN Human Rights Committee will further the win-win cooperation between the CCP and the International Olympic Council and undermine the principles and values of Olympism.
China’s Xinjiang propaganda and united front work in Turkey: Actors and content
Paper published in Monde chinois — Nouvelle Asie.
Unbundling systems: Foreign affairs reform in China’s provinces
An analysis of post-2018 bureaucratic reform at the province level sheds light on the Xi era’s compartmentalisation of the CCP foreign affairs and united front systems.
The CCP at its centenary: From the wrong side of history to redesigning the future for humankind
After many trials and yet more errors, the Party still leads everything.
Xi’s centralisation of external propaganda: SCIO and the Central Propaganda Department
A note on the early Xi-era restructuring of the propaganda system.