Professor Greitens featured in The China Questions 2

August 24, 2022 Dr Sheena Chestnut Greitens director of the Asia Policy Program contributed to The China Questions Critical Insights into US-China Relations the second volume to Harvard University Press s The China Questions that covers key issues shaping today s United States-China relationship explained by the top China specialists Edited by Maria Adele Carrai Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi The China Questions ranges across questions of security economics military development climate change public health science and technology education and the worrying flashpoints of Hong Kong Taiwan and Xinjiang In How Does China Think about National Security Dr Greitens details President Xi Jinping s approach to security in the People s Republic of China through his domestic security and foreign policies For more information on the book click...

Professor Liu Published in Frontiers

July 8, 2022 Asia Policy Faculty Affiliate Amy Liu and former Clements Center Undergraduate Fellow Ethan Masucol with Jangai Jap coauthored Islands Apart Explaining the Chinese Experience in the Philippines which was published by Frontiers a research publisher and open science platform Despite China posing a national security threat there is a general absence of disdain against the Chinese Filipino community in the Philippines undermining theoretical expectations that there is domestic backlash against the diaspora from the aggressor state The paper argues that current patterns of minimal discrimination is the product of government-tempered nationalism which highlights positive economic aspects between the two countries Original survey data collected speeches by government officials and interviews with local officials and business leaders are used to test this argument To read the...

Sheena Chestnut Greitens on Defending Taiwan at the American Enterprise Institute

June 21, 2022 Dr Sheena Chestnut Greitens founding director of the Asia Policy Program and Associate Professor at the LBJ School was recently published in the American Enterprise Institute s latest release Defending Taiwan where she and Zack Cooper contributed the chapter Asian Allies and Partners in a Taiwan Contingency What Should the United States Expect The chapter argues that the United States should be talking with and pressing its allies to develop their own anti-access capabilities rather than replicating the power projection capabilities of U S forces Doing so would help ensure that the United States and its allies and partners have the capabilities to credibly deny Beijing the ability to invade or coerce Taiwan Click here to read the full chapter You may read the full...

Professor Inboden's Book Featured in New Books in Human Rights

May 24, 2022 Dr Rana Siu Inboden Faculty Affiliate of the Asia Policy Program interviewed with Nicholas Bequelin Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a Visiting Scholar at the Paul Tsai China Center about her recent book China and the International Human Rights Regime - which was featured as the Book of the Day on the New Books in Human Rights podcast Dr Inboden examines China's role in the international human rights regime between and and through this lens explores China's rising position in the world Focusing on three major case studies the drafting and adoption of the Convention against Torture and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture the establishment of the UN Human Rights Council and the International Labour Organization's Conference Committee on...

Professor Avramov Publishes Report on China's Rise at Army Cyber Institute

March 31, 2022 Kiril Avramov Asia Policy Faculty Affiliate and Assistant Professor at the Center for Russian Eastern Europe and Eurasian Studies recently published with fellow experts a report on China s rise to global primacy at the Army Cyber Institute By using the Threatcasting foresight methodology the project explores how the People s Republic of China PRC might use information and other soft-power mechanisms to rise as the dominant hegemonic power by The project thus provides various observations such as the CCP s control of narrative to legitimize its form of governance and policy recommendations to the U S and its allies on how to disrupt mitigate or recover from these future threats Read the full report here...

Professor Greitens on the Rising Costs of China's Friendship with Russia

March 14, 2022 Sheena Chestnut Greitens founding director of the Asia Policy Program and associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs spoke with the Financial Times on the rising costs of China's friendship with Russia Despite the economic and diplomatic consequences to China Chinese officials would struggle to recalibrate relations with Russia because Xi has put a very personal stamp on Sino-Russian relations says Professor Greitens To learn more about China's outlook on the war in Ukraine read the full article here...

Professor Greitens' Comments on the Beijing Olympics

February 8, 2022 Sheena Chestnut Greitens founding director of the Asia Policy Program and associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs was quoted in recent articles atThe Atlantic and Bloomberg discussing Xi Jinping s strategy during the COVID- pandemic and with the Winter Olympics While it risks overwhelming the country s healthcare system the COVID- pandemic is opportune for China s leadership to consolidate power justifying draconian measures as public health guidelines Similarly hosting the Olympics in Beijing is opportune to present a positive and apolitical image of China despite its human rights record as demonstrated by the Peng Shuai case and behavior in global politics Under Xi s leadership the core task says Greitens is political security Read more at the links below Peng Shuai...

Rana Siu Inboden Discusses China’s Subversion of the United Nations in Foreign Policy

February 4, 2022 Rana Siu Inboden APP Affiliate and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs was published in Foreign Policy discussing China s subversion of the United Nations' Economic and Social Council s Committee on Nongovernmental Organization Beijing denying NGOs' consultative status at the UN exemplifies both China s ascendance and its limiting of civil society within international institutions Read Inboden s analysis on mitigating China s influence at the United Nations here The full version of the essay appears in the Journal of Democracy...

Kiril Avramov Launches New Website for GDIL

January 21, 2022 In the Global Dis Information Lab GDIL was established at the University of Texas at Austin with a mission to enable interdisciplinary academic research on the global circulation of a broad spectrum of information misinformation and disinformation via digital media By promoting a deeper understanding of national and regional contexts in which information is formed GDIL aims to generate policy recommendations and solutions To support such a mission GDIL may provide faculty and student researchers with the resources necessary for world class research Professor Kiril Avramov an affiliate of the Asia Policy Program is the director of GDIL For more information visit the newly launched GDIL website here...