The PLA and CCP influence abroad: Business, intelligence, crime and interference enmeshed
Interview with Alex Joske on his research on alleged intelligence activities, defence universities and the CCP’s global influence operations.
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Mapping the footprint of Belt and Road influence operations
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.
A discreet P2B (Party to business) model: Tianjin, a Czech corporation and “economic diplomacy”
A recent high-level CCP visit shows the enduring importance of the links between Tianjin party politics and Czech big business in the country’s relationship with China. Once again, the visit was kept secret.
Bilateral dialogue with the PRC at both ends: Czech-Chinese “friendship” extends to social credit
A secretive meeting between Czech and Chinese officials illustrates the links between the CCP’s Soviet-inspired system of “friendship” associations and the Czech business and political élite. A topic of the talks: “building the social credit system”.
Between tanks and knitting needles
1989 and 2019 in Prague and Beijing.
Huawei in CEE: From “strategic partner” to potential threat
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.
New Zealand: Anne-Marie Brady’s parliamentary submission on political interference
The New Zealand parliament’s inquiry on foreign interference hears about the main components, goals and tactics of the CCP’s global influence apparatus, as well as policy recommendations on how to respond to inappropriate interference activities.
The CCP at the UN: Redefining development and rights
How the Belt and Road Initiative threatens to undermine the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Lost in translation: ‘Economic diplomacy’ with Chinese characteristics
The corrosive impact of China’s economic statecraft on the integrity of EU political systems. Sinopsis policy brief available in html and pdf.
The importance of Friendly Contacts: the New Comintern to Huawei’s rescue
Old friends of China cultivated by the CCP International Liaison Department come in handy in the Huawei dispute, despite the issue being somewhat outside of their regular competences.