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.”