Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
Dan Slater on Duterte and the Phillippines
Dan Slater specializes in the politics of enduring dictatorships and emerging democracies, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. He is currently director of the Center for International Social Scie... Read More
Wang Zheng on Feminism in China
Wang Zheng is professor of Women’s Studies and History and Research Scientist of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She is the author or editor of Women in... Read More
Daniel Blumenthal on Trump’s Visit to Asia
Dan Blumenthal is the director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on East Asian security issues and Sino-American relations. Mr. Blumenthal has both served in and ... Read More
Kim Jolliffe on the Myanmar Military
Photo by John Owens of Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh, inhabited by over 30,000 Rohingya refugees following religious persecution in Myanmar. Kim Jolliffe is an independent researcher, writer, ... Read More
Brad Parks on China’s Foreign Aid
Dr. Brad Parks is AidData's Executive Director and Research Faculty at the College of William and Mary’s Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations. He leads a team of 35 progr... Read More
Tom Doctoroff on Chinese Mobile Payments
Mascots of Tencent. Tencent is an investment corporation with holdings in QQ, WeChat, and WeChat Pay, as well as many other companies. Tom Doctoroff is a Senior Partner at Prophet, a global consultanc... Read More
Bruce Dickson on Xi Jinping
The above photo is from the 18th Chinese Party Congress in November 2012. Bruce Dickson is professor of political science and international affairs and chair of the political science department at t... Read More
Gary Hufbauer on the APEC
Hufbauer has written extensively on international trade, investment, and tax issues. He is coauthor of Bridging the Pacific: Toward Free Trade and Investment between China and the United States (2014)... Read More
Wendy Su on Chinese film-making
Wendy Su is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California Riverside. Her research falls along the intersections of global communication, Chinese media... Read More