The Swiss peace summit concluded over the weekend with what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed as the “first steps towards peace,” but much remains unresolved before Russia might conceivably agree to cease its war...
Surveys have shown that Xi Jinping’s hardline foreign policy is increasingly unpopular abroad. Given the CCP’s mixed success using soft power to repair China’s image, party propagandists have increasingly resorted to sharper...
A series of recent reports shows the variety of tactics employed to extend Chinese influence into foreign countries, particularly their information ecosystems. The reports outline the strengths and weaknesses of these influence...
On Saturday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will wrap up his ten-day tour of eight Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Having initially aimed for an ambitious multilateral pact on security and development, he has reluctantly...
China’s soft power initiatives are often derided by Western observers as ineffective or counterproductive. Over a hundred Confucius Institutes in the U.S. and Europe have been targeted as arms of the Chinese state and forced to...
In 2020, CDT Chinese editors launched the CDT Censorship Digest series. The series will collect and quote from news and online speech that was censored by Chinese authorities during the previous month, as well as summarize...
In an episode of BBC Sounds as part of her series “China and the World,” Isabel Hilton gives an in-depth look at the the Chinese government’s influence campaigns overseas, in particular programs under the...
Yesterday, Human Rights Watch published a 12-point Code of Conduct for institutes of higher...
A 200-page report published by the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, titled, “Chinese...
Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the world’s largest infrastructure investment project to...
According to a yearly survey published by the consultancy Portland and the University of Southern...
Exiled Chinese human rights lawyer and activist Teng Biao is calling attention to the “long...
The Chinese government’s growing influence over Europe is beginning to receive closer scrutiny,...
Chinese government influence over the political, media, and academic institutions in foreign...
The New York Times’ former Beijing bureau chief Edward Wong shares his parting thoughts on...
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