China Uncovered

Olivia Enos interviews Etienne Soula on the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD)'s Authoritarian Interference Tracker. Etienne is a research analyst with the ASD and spearheaded the expansion of the tracker to cover over 150 incidents of Chinese interference in Europe and North America. Check out the following reports mentioned in the episode:

Check out The Heritage Foundation's annual China Transparency Report, highlighting the work of experts all across the world who are dedicated to helping us better understand the aims and activities of the CCP, as well as the China Transparency Project website.

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Olivia Enos interviews Nargiza Salidjanova on the Rhodium Group's China Pathfinder project. Nargiza is Director of Rhodium Group's China Projects team. Check out the following reports mentioned in the episode:

Check out The Heritage Foundation's annual China Transparency Report, highlighting the work of experts all across the world who are dedicated to helping us better understand the aims and activities of the CCP, as well as the China Transparency Project website.

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Olivia Enos interviews Victor Shih, Ph.D., on the UCSD 21st Century China Center China Data Lab's CCP Elites portal. Dr. Shih is an Associate Professor of Political Economy and the Ho Miu Lam Chair in China and Pacific Relations at the UC San Diego. Click here to view more of the China Data Lab's research and projects.

Click here to read Heritage Visiting Fellow Michael Cunningham's commentary on China's new rules that aim to strengthen the government’s ideological oversight of the entertainment sector. Keep an eye out for Michael's commentary on the CCP's 6th Plenum!

Check out The Heritage Foundation's annual China Transparency Report, highlighting the work of experts all across the world who are dedicated to helping us better understand the aims and activities of the CCP, as well as the China Transparency Project website.

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Olivia Enos interviews Siemon Wezeman on the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)'s Arms Transfers database and the increase in China's arms exports. Siemon Wezeman is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. Click here to read the publications by the SIPRI Arms Transfer Programme.

Check out The Heritage Foundation's annual China Transparency Report, highlighting the work of experts all across the world who are dedicated to helping us better understand the aims and activities of the CCP, as well as the China Transparency Project website.

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Olivia Enos interviews Fergus Ryan on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)'s Mapping China's Tech Giants project and the current impact of COVID-19 on China's tech policy and overseas expansion. Fergus Ryan is a Senior Analyst with ASPI's International Cyber Policy Centre. Click here to read ASPI's Reigning In China's Technology Giants report and here to read the Supply Chains & the Global Data Collection Ecosystem report.

Check out The Heritage Foundation's annual China Transparency Report, highlighting the work of experts all across the world who are dedicated to helping us better understand the aims and activities of the CCP, as well as the China Transparency Project website.

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Olivia Enos interviews Jessica Batke on ChinaFile's China NGO Project and the current landscape for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in China. Jessica Batke is a Senior Editor at ChinaFile.

Check out The Heritage Foundation's annual China Transparency Report, highlighting the work of experts all across the world who are dedicated to helping us better understand the aims and activities of the CCP, as well as the China Transparency Project website.

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Welcome to Season 2 of China Uncovered, a podcast devoted to revealing all that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to conceal.

Since you last joined us, the CCP has continued, largely unabated, in its attempts mask the extent and nature of its challenge to American interests and the values we share with the free world. But civil society hasn’t skipped a beat. In June 2021, The Heritage Foundation released the China Transparency Report highlighting the work of experts all across the world who are dedicated to helping us better understand the aims and activities of the CCP.

This season, you will hear from some of these experts as they share their findings and help us to more effectively counter the CCP’s lack of transparency.

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Olivia Enos and Heritage Senior Policy Analyst Riley Walters interview Hervé Lemahieu on the Lowy Institute Asia Power Index and China's relative power in the Indo-Pacific region. Hervé Lemahieu is the Director of the Power and Diplomacy Program at the Lowy Institute. The Lowy Asia Power Index can be found here.

To wrap up the end of an extraordinary season, we are also joined by the Honorable Newt Gingrich with some special remarks highlighting the importance of transparency vis-à-vis the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Speaker Gingrich has recently launched a newsletter on China! To subscribe, click here.

The Heritage China Transparency Project has recently launched a website. Check it out to discover world-class data tracking projects from organizations across the globe on the activities of the CCP.

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Olivia Enos and Heritage Senior Research Fellow Dean Cheng interview Gregory Poling on the maritime disputes and artificial islands in the South China Sea. Gregory Poling is a Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia and Director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. The AMTI and Mr. Poling's research can be found here.

The Heritage China Transparency Project has recently launched a website! Check it out to discover world-class data tracking projects from organizations across the globe on the activities of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Olivia Enos and Heritage Senior Policy Analyst and Economist Riley Walters interview Adam Lysenko on U.S.-China investment and venture capital. Adam Lysenko is an Associate Director at Rhodium Group. The Rhodium Group and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations track U.S.-China capital flows in their US-China Investment Hub. The following reports analyze the trends emerging from the data: Disruption: US-China Venture Capital in a New Era of Strategic Competition and Two Way Street- US-China Investment Trends - 1H 2020 Update.

To read recent Heritage commentary on the Ant IPO decision, please click here.

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Olivia Enos interviews Sarah Cook on the Chinese Communist Party's use of soft power, disinformation, and censorship in its influence campaign. Sarah Cook is the Research Director for China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong at Freedom House and author of the Beijing's Global Megaphone report. Every year, Freedom House releases Global Freedom, Internet Freedom, and Democracy scores.

Other Freedom House reports mentioned:

Freedom in the World 2020

Freedom on the Net 2020

Freedom House's China Media Bulletin is a monthly bulletin on censorship, media freedom, and internet freedom issues related to the People's Republic of China, drawing on both English and Chinese-language sources.

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Olivia Enos and Heritage Center for Technology Policy Director Klon Kitchen interview Emily Weinstein on overseas professional and technology transfer to China, and more. Emily Weinstein is a research analyst at the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). The research and translations by the Georgetown CSET team can be found here.

Reports mentioned in the episode:

Designing Alternatives to China's Repressive Surveillance State by Dahlia Peterson

US-China STEM Talent Decoupling: Background, Policy, and Impact by Remco Zwetsloot

Overseas Professionals and Technology Transfer to China by Ryan Fedasiuk and Emily Weinstein

China's Use of AI in its COVID-19 Response by Emily Weinstein

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Olivia Enos and Heritage Senior Policy Analyst and Economist Riley Walters interview Dr. Derek Scissors on Chinese foreign direct investments. Dr. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the China Global Investment Tracker (CGIT). The CGIT and Dr. Scissors’ research can be found here.

To read Riley Walters’ report on understanding China’s economic weaknesses and U.S.-China investments, please click here.

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Olivia Enos interviews Dr. Adrian Zenz on his groundbreaking research on the CCP's treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang. Dr. Zenz is a Senior Research Fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. His report on Xinjiang can be found here. 

To read Olivia Enos' report on issuing an atrocity determination for Uighurs, please click here.

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As China continues its rise, the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have implications across the globe and the need for transparency is increasingly important. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCP has often withheld, obfuscated, and falsified data for its own purposes. This year, The Heritage Foundation launched a transparency initiative to facilitate a global campaign to systematically expose the CCP’s behavior. In this podcast, Heritage Senior Policy Analyst Olivia Enos hosts representatives of world-class data projects to discuss how their projects are shining a spotlight on the CCP’s actions and emerging trends from their data.

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