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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…

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…

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: 1982-2017, which was featured as the “Book of the Day” on…

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…

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…

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 at The Atlantic and Bloomberg, discussing Xi Jinping’s strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic and with the 2022 Winter Olympics. While it risks overwhelming the country’s healthcare…

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…

In 2020, 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…

APP Affiliate Dr. Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor at the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, received the 2021-22 VPR Research Grant, which he will use to investigate the origins of strong parties through the lens of elite conflict and party-building strategies. Lü focuses on the early stage of…

Jada Fraser, former undergraduate fellow at the Clements Center, co-authored “The Case for U.S.-Japan-ROK Cooperation on Democracy Support in the Indo-Pacific Region” with Nicholas Szechenyi and Hannah Fodale at the Center for Security and Intelligence Studies (CSIS). The latest commentary argues for opportunities where the U.S., Japan, and South Korea (ROK) could cooperate to strengthen democracy in…