The spooks and the merchants: Germany’s arrest of a suspected MSS agent and the CCP’s cultivation of business associations
MSS-commissioned tech transfer is but the climax of chamber of commerce engagement.
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MSS-commissioned tech transfer is but the climax of chamber of commerce engagement.
A note on the CCP’s engagement with Buddhism in Mongolia, Japan and Australia.
After a period of infatuation, promise fatigue and changing geopolitics have led to policy changes from Vilnius to Bucharest.
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.
Paper published in Monde chinois — Nouvelle Asie.
A note on the early Xi-era restructuring of the propaganda system.
Documenting Overseas Chinese united front networks and contacts between Swiss social, economic and political circles and the Chinese party-state’s co-optation apparatus.
The annual Sinopsis workshop on the CCP’s global influence took place on 12 and 13 October.
Hardline policies against the Uyghurs prompt comparisons with Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism.
The CCP’s strategy of preemptive defense of its core values at transnational scale is a fundamental institutional characteristic of the party-state.
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