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.”
Asia Policy Program Director Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens was recently interviewed in a webinar titled “Assessing the Scope and Impacts of Xi’s Military Purges” by The Center for Strategic and International Studies. In her presentation, Dr. Greitens discussed the role that purges have historically played in autocratic regimes, specifically discussing how President Xi’s recent military purge aligns with this trend...
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...
Strauss Senior Fellow Dr. Rana Siu Inboden recently co-authored a report for Jamestown on how the The People's Republic of China (PRC) is increasingly shaping norms at the UN Human Rights Council. “After years maintaining a low-profile role within UN human rights bodies, the PRC is a more active force under Xi, proactively injecting Party ideals and preferences into the...