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Making Sense of China’s Latest Naval Exercises in the Asia-Pacific
By Zi Yang
In less than a week, China initiated a series of naval drills in the South Pacific, Gulf of Tonkin, and off Taiwan’s southwest coast.
Is There an Axis of Autocracy?
By Bonnie Girard
At heart, what binds China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia is a set of transactional relationships.
Thailand Secretly Surrenders At Least 40 Uyghur Asylum Seekers to China
By Luke Hunt
A decade-long ordeal ends with sneaky appeasement and a slap in the face of Marco Rubio.
Funding Freedom in China: Time for Private Donors to Step Up
By Rana Siu Inboden
Many Chinese civil society organizations became reliant on now-frozen U.S. government aid after funding from private U.S. organizations dried up.
Trump’s Foreign Policy Could Accelerate China’s Advance in Latin America
By R. Evan Ellis
The administration’s approach to competition with China, and to global engagement more broadly, could unwittingly facilitate the extension of Beijing’s influence.
Conversations With Chinese Feminists
By Christina Q. Knight
Young women in China are less and less willing to have children or even marry. Conversations with several 20-somethings help reveal why.
Thai Deportation of Uyghurs Is Imminent, Rights Group Says
By Sebastian Strangio
The 48 asylum seekers are part of a group of more than 300 Uyghur Muslims who fled China's Xinjiang region in 2014.
CCP Propaganda and United Front Operations in US Allies
By Mercy A. Kuo
Insights from Russell Hsiao.
A Shot Across the Bow: China Signals New Era of Sea Power in the Southwest Pacific
By Anne-Marie Brady
The live-fire exercises were a demonstration of China’s growing sea power in Australia and New Zealand’s immediate periphery – and meant to normalize the PLA presence there.
China Coast Guard Vessels Regularly Enter Territorial Waters of Disputed East China Sea Islands
By Takahashi Kosuke
Each month, the CCG conducts what appears to be a ceremonial intrusion into the territorial waters of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, which are administered by Japan but claimed by China.
The Unnoticed Beneficiary of the Mauritius-UK Chagos Island Deal? India.
By Krzysztof Iwanek
New Delhi has far more influence on Mauritius than may be noticed in Europe.
How Afghanistan Can Benefit from China’s Investments
By Hamayun Khan and Nasrat Sayed
A strategic relationship with China could end Afghanistan’s isolation through economic cooperation and ensure stability through strategic engagement.