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Articles by Mareike Ohlberg
The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
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Mobbing aus Peking: Taiwan, das unsichtbare Land
Diese Woche spielt in Berlin der Dokumentarfilm „Invisible Nation“. Die Dokumentation begleitet die aus dem Amt scheidende Präsidentin Taiwans, Tsai Ing-wen - und zeigt dabei in vielen Szenen die absurde Situation auf, in der sich der Inselstaat befindet. Denn: Taiwan ist ein Land, das offiziell keines sein darf, weil der große Nachbar, die Volksrepublik China, es nicht zulässt.
Voting in Beijing’s Shadow: The People’s Republic of China Interferes in the 2024 Taiwanese Elections
The recent Taiwanese elections provide important insights into the tools and tactics the People’s Republic of China (PRC) might use when election results matter to its leadership. Similarly, Taiwanese authorities’ vigilance and responsiveness to Beijing’s activities can provide other democracies with best practices for insulating themselves against foreign authoritarian interference.
Knitting the Pieces of China’s Emerging Strategy in Africa
Yunnan Chen is a London-based researcher in the Development and Public Finance program at ODI, where her work centers on the changing global development finance architecture and China’s global footprint. Daria Impiombato is a research analyst specializing in Chinese technology and human rights at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Center.
Image control: How China struggles for discourse power
Generative AI opens new digital frontiers of propaganda and disinformation The revolution in generative AI like ChatGPT will offer new opportunities for parties seeking to distribute propaganda and disinformation. “Traditional” online influ- encing operations rely on manually written messages, that can either be spread in a targeted manner by human accounts or as “loose fodder” by bots. The former has limited reach, while the latter quickly comes across as inorganic.
Political Front Lines: China’s Pursuit of Influence in Africa
This report examines the understudied field of China’s political influence activities in Africa and describes the united front system’s attempts to manage overseas Chinese communities, co-opt African elites, and shape the perception of wider African audiences.
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Why China is freaking out over Biden’s Democracy Summit
The Chinese government is furious about US President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy, and it wants the world to know. A week before the summit was to take place, the Chinese government hastily convened its democracy forum and published a white paper called "China: Democracy That Works," as well as a report titled "The State of Democracy in the United States," in which it claims to "expose the deficiencies and abuse of democracy" in the United States.
China's Overwrought Response to Biden's Democracy Summit Is Telling
The Chinese government is furious about U.S. President Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy, and it wants the world to know. A week before the summit was to take place, the Chinese government hastily convened its own democracy forum and published a white paper called “China: Democracy That Works,” as well as a report titled “The State of Democracy in the United States,” in which it claims to “expose the deficiencies and abuse of democracy” in the United States.
Germany’s China Policy is Set for a Rethink After the Elections
Image: Armin Laschet and Annalena Baerbock (Wikimedia Commons/Sicherheitskonferenz) This article is part of an exclusive new series from CHOICE focusing on China as a topic in elections across Central and Eastern Europe. Germany under Angela Merkel has attempted to navigate a “middle way”, avoiding confrontation with China wherever possible. This has had both structural and personal rationale, but even over the last few years, the position has become increasingly difficult to maintain.
Combating Beijing’s Sharp Power: How Australia's Civil Society Led the Way
Tracking Relations Students of international relations speak of "Track 1" dealings, meaning formal relations between sovereign states, and "Track 2" matters, which involve nongovernmental actors including those from organized society, the media, the business world, the academy, religious bodies, and so on.
Nuova Guerra Fredda | Il progetto della Cina per ribaltare la democrazia occidentale - Linkiesta.it
Uno degli strumenti retorici preferiti dal Partito-Stato cinese per sviare le critiche è quello di accusare gli oppositori di «maccartismo» oppure di avere «una forma mentis da guerra fredda». Hua Chunying, portavoce del Ministero degli Esteri, usa spesso la seconda espressione, insieme a un altro modo di dire ricorrente: «pensiero a somma zero».
‘Because There Were Cameras, I Didn’t Ask Any Questions’
Sometime in the summer of 2019, Vera Zhou, a young college student from the University of Washington, forgot to pretend that she was from the non-Muslim majority group in China, the Han. At a checkpoint at the mall, she put her ID on the scanner and looked into the camera. Immediately, an alarm sounded and the guards manning the equipment pulled her aside.
China's Message Control
Jessica Batke & Mareike Ohlberg ChinaFile December 22, 2020 Li Wenliang’s death had only been announced a few hours earlier, but Warming High-Tech was already on the case.
Pretty Lady Cadres
New Data Shows Limits on Women’s Advancement in China’s Leadership In early February, at the beginning of the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 virus in China, Wang Fang, a local Communist Party secretary, was working around the clock. As an official responsible for 19,000 residents of a neighborhood in the city of Deyang in Sichuan province, Wang spent her days answering questions from concerned citizens via WeChat and figuring out who needed to quarantine.
Message Control
Li Wenliang’s death had only been announced a few hours earlier, but Warming High-Tech was already on the case.
China's State of Surveillance
Jessica Batke & Mareike Ohlberg ChinaFile November 9, 2020 High atop Mount Xiqiao, an extinct volcano that soars above the Pearl River Delta, a towering statue of the Buddhist goddess Guanyin gazes down on the concrete sprawl of the city of Foshan. For centuries, the mountain’s scenic caves and waterfalls provided a refuge for scholars and artists. But today, Xiqiao is a far more crowded place. Some five million tourists visit each year.
State of Surveillance
High atop Mount Xiqiao, an extinct volcano that soars above the Pearl River Delta, a towering statue of the Buddhist goddess Guanyin gazes down on the concrete sprawl of the city of Foshan. For centuries, the mountain’s scenic caves and waterfalls provided a refuge for scholars and artists. But today, Xiqiao is a far more crowded place. Some five million tourists visit each year. And as they wend their way up the mountain through groves of peach and banyan, Guanyin is not the only one keeping watch.
Hidden Hand
'Hidden Hand is heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.' The Times 'This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.' The Guardian The Chinese Communist Party is determined to reshape the world in its image. The party is not interested in democracy. It sees only a bitter ideological struggle with the West, dividing the world into those who can be won over, and enemies.
Even Jack Ma must pledge loyalty to CPC to do business
Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg Text Size: In the words of one close observer, Yi-Zheng Lian, the modern Chinese economy is ‘a party-corporate conglomerate’.Whereas several years ago it was plausible to argue that the CCP would permit continuing economic liberalisation, today, it’s apparent that the Party has been moving decisively in the opposite direction. The links between senior Party officials and Chinese companies are personal as well as political.
Book Review: China’s true global ambitions exposed
This startling book about how the Chinese Communist party has spread its tentacles throughout the world is vital reading with a chilling message By Will Hutton / The Guardian This is a remarkable book with a chilling message. The Chinese Communist party, for which dominating rural China in order to encircle its cities and win the civil war is part of its historic backstory, is now intent on doing the same internationally.
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Unmade by China - Open The Magazine
THE CHINESE COMMUNIST Party is determined to transform the international order, to shape the world in its own image, without a shot being fired. Rather than challenging from the outside, it has been eroding resistance to it from within, by winning supporters, silencing critics and subverting institutions. Whereas analysts on both sides of the Atlantic continue to agonise over whether to label China an opponent or even an enemy, the CCP decided this matter thirty years ago.
BOOK EXCERPT: The sad case of John McCallum Original
Author of the article: Special to Toronto Sun Publishing date: Jul 20, 2020 • • 3 minute read In this file photo a teacher and her students pose with Communist Party emblems during a class about the history of the Communist Party at a school in Lianyungang, on June 28, 2020. STR / AFP via Getty Images Article content The follow is an excerpt from Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World.
Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World eBook: Hamilton , Clive , Ohlberg, Mareike, Burton, Charles: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
A must read, The Globe and Mail Hidden Hand is heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming, The Times, London The CCP knows how to reward its friends with access and opportunities, Axios, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian Governments around the world are in the early stages of a repositioning of power, as China rises and the United States is drawn into direct competition. However, some are beginning to wonder whether, for all of the economic benefits, engaging with China carries unseen dangers.
Chinese fixer targets five leaders: New evidence of China’s infiltration of British Establishment
A leading figure in a Chinese group allegedly created to groom foreign elites has been pictured with five British prime ministers. Photographs uncovered by the Daily Mail show how Zhirong Hu has moved among the British Establishment. He has met Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Mr Hu is a director of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which is reportedly controlled by the country’s Communist Party.
Hidden Hand by Clive Hamilton
In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent Invasion, Hidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy. read more In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent Invasion, Hidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy.
‘This Is Not Forensic Genetics Anymore. This Is Surveillance.’
In February, ChinaFile published an article about the Wisconsin-based company Promega selling DNA analysis equipment to the police in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Not long after we posted the story, Yves Moreau contacted ChinaFile to discuss his experiences communicating with Promega.
China’s Biosecurity State in Xinjiang Is Powered by Western Tech
In 2015, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Public Security Bureau announced it planned to purchase equipment from the U.S.-based biotechnology company Promega for the purpose of analyzing DNA and adding it to a national database, according to Chinese government procurement documents. This article was originally published in ChinaFile.
American Company Sold DNA Sequencers to Security Officials in Xinjiang, Documents Show
In 2015, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Public Security Bureau announced it planned to purchase equipment from the U.S.-based biotechnology company Promega for the purpose of analyzing DNA and adding it to a national database, according to Chinese government procurement documents.
American Company Sold DNA Analysis Equipment to Security Officials in Xinjiang, Documents Show
In 2015, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Public Security Bureau announced it planned to purchase equipment from the U.S.-based biotechnology company Promega for the purpose of analyzing DNA and adding it to a national database, according to Chinese government procurement documents.
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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.
Authoritarian Advance: Responding to China's Growing Political Influence in Europe
This pathbreaking report investigates the ways in which China seeks to shape politics and public opinion in Europe. The Chinese Communist Party uses governmental and ostensibly private wealth in overt and covert ways to influence political and economic elites, the media and public opinion, and civil society and academia. Some European states have begun to adopt a stance of “preemptive obedience” to Chinese interests on issues such as human rights.
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.
Mercator Institute for China Studies
Almost four years after Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the CCP, it has become clear that he is receiving notably different media coverage than his predecessor Hu Jintao. Data shows that mentions of Xi in the People’s Daily in the first 18 months of his term outstrip mentions of Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao during equivalent time periods.
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