

Securing the Digital Silk Road
Background: Network Security and the Digital Silk Road Since it was announced in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has served as...


Too Much Risk or Not Enough? New Development Finance Agencies in China and the United States
The past year has seen significant shake-ups to the development finance regimes of the world’s two largest economies. In April 2018,...


The Right to Speak: Discourse and Chinese Power
Xi Jinping at the 10th BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 26, 2018. [Li Xueren/Xinhua] In his remarks at the 19th Party...


Taiwan's Social Media Landscape: Ripe for Election Interference?
[Photo by Pen Tsai on Unsplash] Taiwan’s local elections, known as nine-in-one elections (九合一选举) for the nine types of local positions in...


China's Plan to Dominate the Global Electric Vehicle Supply Chain
Since the emergence of the electronics industry in the 1980s, companies in South Korea and Japan have dominated the production of...


US-China Trade War and the Clausewitzian Trinity
After months of Twitter salvos and internal debates, on July 6th the Trump Administration made good on its threats to raise tariffs on...

China's Play for 5G Dominance: Standards and the Digital Silk Road
China is actively seeking to lead in setting technical standards across a range of emerging industries, from ultra-high voltage (UHV)...


The CCP's Plan to 'Sinicize' Religions
As the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) repression of faithful Chinese continues to worsen, a brief review of the statements of Chinese...

Quarterly Report 2 | January-April 2018
About This Report The Party Watch Initiative Quarterly Report 2 provides a comprehensive overview of the most important Chinese Communist...


Sino-Russian Military Relations: Gratitude and Resentment
When it comes to military-to-military relations between China and Russia, Western observers by and large remain skeptical over the depth...