China’s Public Finances: the Real Wildcard
Industrial decline and chronic overcapacity, or a surge of innovation from DeepSeek to robotics? Beneath the surface, China’s economy rests on a far more fragile and complex foundation.
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China’s Superstition Boom in a Godless State
In post-pandemic China, superstition has surged into a booming industry, as youth turn to crystals, fortune-telling, and AI oracles in search of hope and meaning.
China’s Xinjiang propaganda and united front work in Turkey: Actors and content
Paper published in Monde chinois — Nouvelle Asie.
Mapping China-in-Germany
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.
The CCP’s Grand United Front abroad
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.
Are we real friends? Albania-China relations in the Xi Era
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.
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.
China’s Xinjiang work in Turkey
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.
Georgia’s China Dream: CEFC’s last stand in the Caucasus
Much like in the Czech Republic, CEFC in Georgia touted investments that never came, and coopted local political elites – with the help of some colorful characters.
Calling the deer a horse: The CCP’s ham-fisted drive to control discourse in Sweden
Interview with Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University and former Director of the Stockholm Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.