Asia Policy Program Director Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens recently provided an analysis to Financial Times in an article titled, “How ‘Safe China’ Sells Its Security Strategy to the World.” Within the article, Dr. Greitens discusses how China is reshaping the global security order by making the case that it is the safest country in the world (and that the United States is not), and using its surveillance and internal security tools to do so.
“Showcasing China’s standards, tools and practices allows Beijing to normalise [sic] its surveillance state as a public security good and to present this as a response to public demand,” Greitens writes. “It also positions China as the arbiter of what counts as security, and who provides it best.”
Dr. Jaganath Sankaran has been awarded a competitive grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for the interdisciplinary research project, “How Are Modern Technologies Affecting Nuclear Risks?” Dr. Sankaran has partnered with Dr. Jaworek, the Director of the Nuclear Policy Program in the Nuclear Threat Initiative, to examine the economic and sociopolitical impacts stemming from the potential use of nuclear...
Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Director of the Asia Policy Program, released a report "China's Foreign Policy Training: A Global Footprint" through the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In it, Greitens and her coauthors examine China’s foreign police, security, and paramilitary training from 2000 to 2025. Their research shows that a majority of countries in the world today have received some form...
Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens was recently interviewed by the National Committee on US-China Relations for a webinar titled “A New Era of Global Security: Why More Countries Are Cooperating with Both the U.S. and China.” In the interview, Dr. Greitens highlights the changing nature of security guarantees since the Cold War and what the long-term implications...