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.
Unified message, rhizomatic delivery: A preliminary analysis of PRC/CCP influence and the united front in Switzerland
Documenting Overseas Chinese united front networks and contacts between Swiss social, economic and political circles and the Chinese party-state’s co-optation apparatus.
Character assassination as the “heavy price” for visiting Taiwan
A Swiss-based united front group tries to push accusations against the Czech Senate president onto Czech media.
Mapping China’s footprint in the world III
The annual Sinopsis workshop on the CCP’s global influence took place on 12 and 13 October.
Estonian parties in the CCP’s grip: The International Liaison Department’s influence activities
Brief for the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the International Centre for Defence and Security, in cooperation with Sinopsis.
Nothing of interest in a small country? Czech-Chinese academic exchange in the age of military-civil fusion
In a country that has attracted the interest of China’s defense sector, multiple academic institutions have established partnerships with PRC defense-linked universities.
Europe and China’s ‘virtual summit’: An anticlimax
Contribution to a ChinaFile conversation.
China’s genocidal policies in Xinjiang
Hardline policies against the Uyghurs prompt comparisons with Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism.