Jul 29,2019 Open Forum Deciphering China’s Intentions: What Can Open Sources Tell Us? Over the past several years, bold assertions about China’s long-range strategic goals have become common in the US public discourse. In 2015, Michael Pillsbury published his influential volume The Hundred-Year Marathon, which purported to disclose China’s “frightening plans” to overtake the United States as the world’s leading power by 2049 and rewrite the rules of […] Joel Wuthnow "Belt and Road" Initiative , 19th Party Congress , Chinese Communist Party , Huawei , Taiwan , Xi Jinping Thought , Xinjiang , ZTE
May 08,2018 Open Forum The Interference Operations from Putin’s Kremlin and Xi’s Communist Party: Forging a Joint Response Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin are systematically interfering in the politics and undermining the institutions of democratic nations.1 Xi’s China and Putin’s Russia have different long-term goals, strategic positions, methodologies, and capabilities. But their interests in weakening the liberal order are converging, and they are working from a similar asymmetric […] Laura Rosenberger , John Garnaut Chinese Communist Party , Sharp power , Vladmir Putin , Xi Jinping
Apr 30,2018 Open Forum An American Lens on China’s Interference and Influence-Building Abroad Last June, Australian reporters for the Four Corners program released a bombshell documentary compiling much of the known (and some previously unknown) facts about Huang Xiangmo and Chau Chak Wing’s relationships in Australian politics and in the Communist Party of China (CPC). The report sparked a discussion that had been brewing in Australia for nearly […] Peter Mattis Chinese Communist Party , Confucian institutes , Propaganda Department , United Front work
Feb 19,2018 Open Forum China’s Discourse of “Civilization”: Visions of Past, Present, and Future In early 2017, Chinese president Xi Jinping gave a speech at a domestic national security seminar in which he boldly stated his aspiration to have China take on leadership of a new global order in a “post-Western era.”1 In this speech, he used the word “civilization” or “civilized” (wenming) three times: once to refer to […] Alison Kaufman Century of humiliation , Chinese civilization , Chinese Communist Party , community of common destiny
Aug 24,2016 Open Forum The Undercurrent of Sino-Vietnamese Relations Since 2010, the South China Sea disputes have emerged as the most acute issue in the Sino-Vietnamese relationship. Bilateral relations have suffered greatly as China expands its land reclamation and maritime control in the region, challenging what Vietnam perceives to be its sovereign territory and exclusive economic zones. While most attention has been focused on […] Yun Sun Chinese Communist Party , Communist Party of Vietnam , economic reforms , liberalization , political reforms
Jul 09,2013 Topics of the Month The China Dream – 1 This is the first monthly posting on President Xi Jinping’s “China Dream” campaign. My longer article, published in this journal, provides a broader discussion of the state of affairs related to the China Dream. That article addresses four questions: What the China Dream means, how it reveals Xi’s leadership, what is the chatter on the […] Ming Wan China Dream , Chinese Communist Party , Constitutionalism , Mass Line , Peaceful Development , Socialism with Chinese Characteristics , Xi Jinping