In China’s distant northwest city of Ürümqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Political and Legal Affairs Commission sends ‘micro clues’ to neighbourhood committees and the police when someone does something irregular. That …
The Strategist’s Anastasia Kapetas is joined by John Schaus, a senior fellow of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. They explore the concepts of asymmetric power and deterrence, how …
At the Boao Forum in April Chinese President Xi Jinping said the world needed ‘justice, not hegemony’. He said China would never engage in an arms race or boss others around and ‘meddling in others’ …
ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre released a report which found that birth rates in Uyghur-majority areas in Xinjiang in western China have fallen by unprecedented amounts since 2017. Danielle Cave speaks to report authors James …
Early last month, China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, officially approved the country’s 14th five-year plan. The strategy was supposed to demonstrate that China has a long-term economic vision that will enable it to …