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Getting “Strategic Corruption” Right: Mapping Contested Meanings in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape
Abstract “Strategic corruption” has rapidly emerged as a popular but also highly contested concept for understanding corruption as a geopolitical instrument. It has been variably used across grey and academic literature to designate vastly different empirical phenomena. This article systematically analyzes the adoption and application of the “strategic corruption” concept in the academic and policy literature.
What Future for International NGOs in China?
China’s Reform and Opening period was characterized by an eagerness to bring in ideas and resources to spur social, economic, and political development and build up legal and regulatory frameworks. All sectors—commercial, cultural, educational, social—enjoyed latitude in how and with whom they engaged. Many NGOs entered China in the 1990s when grassroots civil society organizations proliferated.
Shielding Corporate Interests, Europe Leaves NGOs Working in China by the Wayside
In late December 2020, at the end of a very turbulent year in Europe-China relations, and after more than seven years of often strenuous negotiations, the European Union (EU) and China agreed on the terms of a “Comprehensive Agreement on Investment” (CAI). The European Commission and heads of state and government inked the deal despite vocal warnings from experts across Europe to allow time for further deliberation.
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Shazeda Ahmed & Bertram Lang Mercator Institute for China Studies The “Social Credit System” is designed to monitor and rate citizens and companies in China and to guide their behavior. “It is a wide-reaching project that touches on almost all aspects of everyday life,” the authors Mareike Ohlberg, Bertram Lang,...
Middle-Power Multilateralism Needed
From the outset, US President Joe Biden made no secret about his intention to build (or rebuild) alliances to counter China’s rise and the global spread of authoritarianism.
What Europe Thinks … About Dealing with China
“Over these months China has lost Europe.” This now famous April 2020 quote by German Green MEP Reinhard Buetikofer captured the perceptions in European debates throughout a tumultuous year in Europe-China relations. Interestingly, Chinese media and diplomats make little mention of the European public opinion reversal against their country.
A Better China Strategy for International Civil Society
In Europe, as in the U.S., 2019 was a challenging year for advocates of civil society cooperation and engagement with China. A crackdown on even very moderate activism continues unabated, as exemplified by the arrest of three employees of the domestic NGO Changsha Funeng on charges of “subversion of state power,” as well as the continued detention of Belgium-based NGO International Crisis Group’s Michael Kovrig on dubious “national security” charges.
Who’s Really Responsible for Digital Privacy in China?
While the United States is reeling from the revelation that political consultancy Cambridge Analytica harvested data from over 87 million Facebook accounts, China’s biggest tech companies and regulators are confronting a wave of of their own customers’ concerns about digital privacy.
Overseas NGOs in China: Left in Legal Limbo
China’s controversial new law on foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO) has been in force only a few months – and it’s already heavily impacting and hindering operations by NGOs in the country.
How to Counter China’s Global Propaganda Offensive
BERLIN — It has been a difficult year for many Western democracies — and China is rubbing it in. As Donald J.
Western NGOs in China: not trusted, but still needed
China’s decision to subject foreign NGOs to strict government control has triggered international outrage. But the Overseas NGO Law, while further narrowing the space for political engagement in China, is not primarily an attempt to shut China off from Western influences. Rather, it is part of a strategy to develop a domestic – and domesticated – non-profit sector. China has joined the club.
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