Asia Policy Program Director Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens was recently interviewed for the China Global Podcast where she outlines the domestic implications if China were to move forward with an invasion of Taiwan. The analysis of domestic implications relies on a study by the German Marshall Fund where Dr. Greitens co-authored a section of Chinese internal social stability in response to an invasion of Taiwan. She discusses a variety of issues, including whether a prolonged conflict or damage to the homeland would create domestic tension and backlash among the population.
“You might get a rally around the flag effect, I wouldn’t rule it out,” states Dr. Greitens. “But then, the CCP is going to have to figure out how to de-escalate the conflict… in a way that doesn’t leave the public thinking the [party] didn’t fail to stand up for China’s goals and image.”
In partnership with UT Austin’s Asia Policy Program (APP), the Intelligence Studies Project’s (ISP) Tearline team published a report on Chinese construction of police training infrastructure in at least four countries — Nepal, Costa Rica, Samoa, and Uzbekistan — over the past 12 years. Construction of a police training facility is usually part of a wider, latticed outreach effort by...
Rana Siu Inboden, a Strauss Center Senior Fellow, co-authored an article with Anouk Wear in the Jamestown Foundation's China Brief Notes titled "'We're Coming For You': PRC Influence in UN Rights Bodies." The article examines how the PRC is placing its nationals on UN human rights bodies and directing funding toward mandates that align with its views. "Beijing is seeking greater influence in the...
Asia Policy Program Director Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens recently co-authored a paper for The Carnegie Endowment of International Peace examining how China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has transformed into a major global security actor. Since 2006, China has signed at least 205 police and security cooperation agreements with over seventy-four countries. Utilizing a new dataset of 170 bilateral and...