{"id":56853,"date":"2020-06-20T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=56853"},"modified":"2020-06-20T06:07:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:07:37","slug":"policy-guns-and-money-genomic-surveillance-ccp-influence-and-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/policy-guns-and-money-genomic-surveillance-ccp-influence-and-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy, Guns and Money: Genomic surveillance, CCP influence and Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this episode, ASPI\u2019s Kelsey Munro speaks to James Leibold and Emile Dirks, authors of Genomic surveillance: inside China\u2019s DNA dragnet<\/em><\/a>, about China\u2019s national campaign of compulsory DNA collection. They discuss how multinational and major Chinese companies are helping the Chinese state security apparatus build this database.<\/p>\n

Next, ASPI Executive Director Peter Jennings speaks to Clive Hamilton about his new book, Hidden hand: exposing how the Chinese Communist Party is reshaping the world<\/em><\/a>. Written with Mareike Olhberg, the book discusses the covert techniques used by the CCP to conduct influence and interference operations in universities, businesses, think tanks and the diplomatic service.<\/p>\n

And ASPI\u2019s Huong Le Thu talks to Chulalongkorn University professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak about his report, Thailand\u2019s strategic drift: domestic determinants amidst superpower competition<\/a><\/em>. They discuss authoritarianism, military coups, the new king and how Thailand\u2019s domestic preoccupations are preventing it from having a more constructive global role.<\/p>\n