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great minds think alike: the People’s Daily (mis)copies Lulu
An early April story by Kou Jie 寇杰 for the English-language People’s Daily website (“Breaking the ice: China’s entry in the Arctic region”) displays remarkable similarities with my early February piece...
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My name is Wu, James Wu: The United Front in the Czech Republic
[By Sinopsis and Jichang Lulu] The Czech president’s bromance with CEFC has most saliently illustrated the intensity of CCP influence in the country’s high politics, teeming with links to the Party’s...
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UN with Chinese Characteristics: Elite Capture and Discourse Management on a...
[By Sinopsis and Jichang Lulu; also published on China Digital Times] The PRC’s involvement in UN affairs has been on the rise in recent years. It has become one of the largest contributors to the...
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A new Comintern for the New Era: The CCP International Department from...
[By Jichang Lulu and Martin Hála. Also published on Sinopsis and China Digital Times.] The CCP’s efforts to cultivate foreign political parties and generate an appreciative consensus around Xi...
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Confined discourse management and localised interactions in the Nordics
[Also posted on Sinopsis.] Some of the challenges the CCP faces in managing public discourse in democratic societies can be overcome by insulating interactions at the local level. The decentralisation...
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New Zealand: United Frontlings bearing gifts
[Posted on Sinopsis on 16 Nov 2018] When Todd McClay, foreign affairs spokesperson for New Zealand’s largest parliamentary party, repeated propaganda points on Xi Jinping’s policy of ethnic-based...
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[Interview with Magnus Fiskesjö posted on Sinopsis on 28 Nov 2018] The Chinese-born Swedish publisher Gui Minhai 桂民海 was kidnapped in 2015 in Thailand during a wave of abductions of critical Hong Kong...
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The CCP’s model of social control goes global
[By Jichang Lulu and Martin Hála. Published on Sinopsis, The Asia Dialogue and China Digital Times on 20 Dec 2018.] One of the most striking aspects of Xi Jinping’s “New Era” is the rapid...
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Huawei’s Christmas battle for Central Europe
[By Jichang Lulu and Martin Hála. Published on Sinopsis on 28 Dec 2018. On the Greenlandic connection, see links and tweets here. For additional Czech coverage, cf. „Ztraceno w překladu w průhonice...
View ArticleSelf-censorship and the Gleichschaltung of Sinology
The recent publication of James Leibold’s paper “Surveillance in China’s Xinjiang region: Ethnic sorting, coercion, and inducement” warrants revisiting the act of outsourced censorship that delayed it....
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