Are we real friends? Albania-China relations in the Xi Era

17.9.2019 Anne-Marie Brady, Hiromichi Higashi

United front work plays an important role in Xi Jinping’s “New Era” foreign policy. Like water on limestone, united front work will seek out the cracks and weak spots in each society. As each society has different fault lines, so the vectors of united front work may be different. Albania is an interesting case study for understanding how CCP united front work adapts, but also, how societies respond to it. Albania and China were famously close in the Mao and Hoxha years, until an ideological split in 1977 ruptured relations.

China’s Xinjiang work in Turkey

11.8.2019 Ondřej Klimeš

Paper presented at the workshop “Mapping China’s footprint in the world II”, organised by Sinopsis and the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Remembering June 4

4.6.2019 Anne-Marie Brady

The June 4 massacre as seen from New Zealand, and the new era of political control that followed.

Huawei in CEE: From “strategic partner” to potential threat

17.5.2019 Filip Jirouš, Jichang Lulu

Following the Prague 5G Security Conference’s stress on transparency and the “model of governance” of countries influencing ICT suppliers, an analysis of Central and Eastern European interactions with Huawei, with new details about the company’s Party links and underreported reactions in the Baltics.

Open letter on harassment campaign against Anne-Marie Brady

5.12.2018 Sinopsis, Jichang Lulu

In New Zealand, Anne-Marie Brady, an academic who investigated the CCP’s influence in local politics has become the target of a series of incidents which, taken together with attacks from Party-directed media, are consistent with an intimidation campaign.

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