Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Director of the Asia Policy Program, Rana Siu Inboden, Senior Fellow at the Strauss Center, and Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center, have released a new report exploring China’s export of surveillance technologies and its provision of other forms of authoritarian social and political control. This report culminates years of studying and exploring this issue thanks to the support of the Smith Richardson Foundation.
Asia Policy Program Director Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens was recently interviewed for an article in The Associated Press titled “Counterespionage thriller is first Chinese movie to get backing of intelligence agency.” "Scare Out" is China's first movie officially endorsed by the Ministry of State Security. The move reflects a broader shift by the MSS toward greater public engagement as the...
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...