Strauss Center Report: China’s Authoritarian Exports

July 29, 2025

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.

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