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North Korea Remains Stable Amid Increased Emphasis on Party Discipline, Some Governance Anomalies, and Daughter’s Growing Prominence - 38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea This article is from the first edition (April-June 2025) of 38 North’s new quarterly product, ...

“Kim’s daughter effectively made her diplomatic debut by accompanying him to the Russian Embassy to celebrate Russia’s Victory Day, which is consistent with her growing public prominence.”

Mapping China’s Strategic Space - Mapping China's Strategic Space https://strategicspace.nbr.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Borderlands-Banner-Animation.mp4#t=1 MAPPING CHINA'S STRATEGIC SPACE: BORDERLANDS How China engages with its land and maritime border neighbor...

The @nbr.org #Borderlands Dashboard, written contributions, and podcast episodes, can be found, free of access, here: strategicspace.nbr.org
Come visit us!

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A podcast mini-series🎙️will also travel along China’s land and maritime borders in Russia’s shadow, in the Himalayas 🏔️, along the Mekong River 🌊, and across the Yellow Sea ⛵️.

We gathered a team of worldwide experts who will shed light 🖊️on how China is shaping its #Borderlands into "gateways" connecting to the outside world, and effectively exerts its transformative power over its close neighborhood.

Borderlands Dashboard - Mapping China's Strategic Space Mapping China's Borderlands: Dashboard China and its neighbors since 2013The Mapping China’s Strategic Space: Borderlands research project investigates how China invests in, engages with, and deepens ...

The creation of a "periphery community" has 3 main axes of effort: development, security, and civilization. In partnership with the fabulous AidData team we have created a Dashboard that monitors evolutions in each domain: strategicspace.nbr.org/borderlands-...

Xi Jinping at the April 2025 conference on periphery work

For the past decade, Xi has given more dedicated attention to China's surrounding regions. In April 2025 he emphasized the need to “focus on building a community of shared future with the periphery and strive to create a new situation in our periphery work.”

Borderlands: An Introduction - Mapping China's Strategic Space The first phase of the National Bureau of Asian Research’s Mapping China’s Strategic Space project concluded with two possible scenarios for the future of China’s strategic mental map. In the first, t...

🧵 An update on the project I've been leading at @nbr.org
on China's #StrategicSpace. We now turn our attention to the #Borderlands, the proximate strategic space Beijing has labeled sanbian 三边 (frontiers 边疆 + borders 边境 + periphery 周边) since 2021.
strategicspace.nbr.org/borderlands-...

It is wrong to assume that Xi Jinping is the sole creator of China’s grand strategy. In this new article ‘Thinker, Lawyer, Soldier, Spy’ I introduce key individuals who have helped to shape Xi’s grand strategy. (And yes, I’m quite proud of the title too) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Les noms des personnes rencontrées ne sont même pas orthographiés correctement

Un rapport de l’Assemblée nationale qui reprend les éléments de langage de la propagande chinoise, ou comment nos élites politiques sont tellement ignorantes de la réalité la RPC d’aujourd’hui qu’elles gobent sans vergogne son agit-prop. Éduquez-vous, bon sang.

Très heureuse d’avoir pu évoquer les liens entre puissance et espace tels qu’envisagés par la communauté stratégique chinoise. Merci @alexjubelin.bsky.social

Comment les stratèges chinois voient le monde Après une semaine dernière consacrée à l'OTAN, le Collimateur se tourne aujourd'hui à nouveau vers la Chine et vers la vision chinoise de l'espace stratégique, avec Nadège Rolland.

Après une semaine dernière consacrée à l'OTAN, #LeCollimateur se tourne aujourd'hui à nouveau vers la Chine et vers la vision chinoise de l'espace stratégique, avec Nadège Rolland (NBR news).
Retrouvez cet épisode sur #LeRubicon
lerubicon.org/collimateur-...

Merci !

"Ultimately, strategic autonomy is not merely about possessing industrial strength or military assets; it fundamentally depends on having the independent analytical capacity to understand, anticipate, and decisively respond to your most pressing external challenges."
thediplomat.com/2025/07/euro...

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NEW: A ChinaFile investigation into China's powerful, but leaky, internet censorship system at locknet.chinafile.com
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YouTube video by 60 Minutes Australia Preparing for war? The real reason China sent warships to Australia | 60 Minutes Australia

Bit of a stern comment by PLA Barbarian handler Zhou Bo: PLA live fire drills in Tasman Sea should provide some "soul searching about what [Australia] has done to China"...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Ns...

An Analysis of China’s White Paper on National Security in the New Era Asia Insight · Episode

This week, China published its first white paper on "national security in the new era." My colleague @batesgill.bsky.social kindly offered his analysis of the document and what it reveals about Beijing's current priorities.
open.spotify.com/episode/6ucU...

INVESTIGATION: Uncovering Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford This summer, a CCP agent impersonated a Stanford student. Under the alias Charles Chen, he approached several students through social media. Anna*, a Stanford student conducting sensitive research on ...

Forensic investigation of a critical issue that no doubt affects all higher education institutions across the U.S. and beyond
stanfordreview.org/investigatio...

President Lai meets NBR delegation  -News releases-News & activities｜Office of the President Republic of China(Taiwan) Office of the President Republic of China(Taiwan)

April 29: a delegation including Admiral John C. Aquilino (U.S. Navy, ret.), NBR President Michael Wills, and NBR Special Advisor and Senior Fellow Roy Kamphausen met with Taiwan President Lai Ching-te in Taipei. Meeting recap and video of President Lai’s remarks: english.president.gov.tw/News/6948.

‘DeepChina’ Substack exposed: covert United Front ‘opinion and cognitive warfare’ project targets international China scholars (Collective Study Issue 04) A review by Collective Study of Party propaganda documents, journal articles, and other official sources reveals that the DeepChina Substack account — which...

The DeepChina Substack account is controlled and directed by the United Front Work Department, and was created specifically to spread propaganda and conduct “opinion and cognitive warfare” in support of the CCP’s ethnic affairs work.
buttondown.com/collectivest...

About the China Targets investigation - ICIJ An ICIJ investigation exposes how Beijing abuses international institutions, including Interpol and the United Nations, to terrorize its critics and extend its repressive tactics worldwide.

"The 10-month investigation also reveals how the United Nations has become a staging ground for China’s transnational repression under Xi Jinping’s regime — and how Chinese authorities abuse Interpol red notices for political ends."
www.icij.org/investigatio...

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Xi Jinping presides over a conference

Central Conference on peripheral diplomacy 周边工作 closes today in Beijing. Last one was in October 2013.
The use of "periphery" (translated as "neighborhood" in state media reports) is intentional and revealing of Beijing's ambitions.
See www.nbr.org/wp-content/u...

Beijing ups diplomatic pressure on Africa as the US pulls back Chinese diplomats threatened to cancel a summit and called top officials in two African countries to pressure lawmakers to quit an international parliamentary group critical of China, officials from t...

Latest example of PRC overseas interference: Chinese diplomats pressured African lawmakers to quit Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
apnews.com/article/chin...

Swedish prosecutor seeks detention of man suspected of spying on Uyghurs for China Swedish prosecutors have requested the detention of a man suspected of spying on ethnic Uyghurs for China, the prosecution authority said on Wednesday.

Sweden detains man suspected of "having illegally collected information and intelligence on people in the Uyghur environment on behalf of the Chinese intelligence service"
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

You and me both!

BREAKING: Ukraine captured 2 Chinese nationals fighting for Russia, Zelensky says "We have information that there are much more than two such Chinese citizens in the occupier's units," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Ukrainian troops have captured two Chinese nationals who were fighting in the ranks of the Russian military against Ukraine, according to President Zelenskyy. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-capt...

China maintains defence spending increase at 7.2% amid roiling geopolitical tensions China will boost its defence spending by 7.2% this year, maintaining a steady growth rate as Beijing faces headwinds from three years of sluggish economic expansion amid mounting geopolitical challenges from Taiwan to Ukraine.

Aiming at building a "world -class military" by 2027 and achieving full mil mod by 2035, China is boosting its defense spending by 7.2% this year to $249 bn.
India's defense budget is $81bn; Japan's $33.5bn.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...

The fate of Uyghurs rarely make international headlines anymore. This report highlights that all of the policies that led to accusations of mass atrocities continue. Some are even expanding.

È davvero un grande piacere vedere il mio articolo sulla visione di Pechino della #HealthSilkRoad e gli implicazioni sullo scacchiere internazionale pubblicato sulla rivista Healthcare Policy.
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