As the CCP cracks down on speech in Hong Kong and conducts high-profile arrests of local democracy activists, CIRA has released a new report entitled TRAMPLED ORCHID that seeks to understand the implications of Hong Kong’s draconian yet vague new National Security Law for local…
CIRA analyst Maggie Baughman’s work below was the winner of the recent Rhodium ChinaTalk essay contest. Ms. Baughman also discussed her research on the most recent episode of the ChinaTalk podcast. Almost two decades after China began marshaling its “fifty-cent army” to manipulate public conversation…
While the American public became more aware of Chinese cyber influence campaigns during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, they did not start there – and they will not end there, either. As the world’s attention returns to the origins of the global pandemic and recommits to its containment, the United…
CIRA China analysts John Chen, Kieran Green, and Joe McReynolds have published a chapter on China’s Strategic Support Force in the newly released academic compilation The PLA Beyond Borders: Chinese Military Operations in Regional and Global Context: Over the past half-decade, China’s military leadership has…
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been testing the use of unmanned vehicles (UAVs) to perform logistical missions such as transportation and resupply since 2018. In academic explorations of border defense and logistics modernization, PLA logistics officers argue that UAVs can dramatically increase the…
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CIRA China analyst Joe McReynolds and former SOSi analyst LeighAnn Ragland-Luce authored a chapter in the recent conference volume The People in the PLA 2.0 regarding the PLA’s human capital ecosystem for network and information warfare: In recent years, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has…
CIRA China analyst John Chen and CIRA head James Mulvenon authored a chapter in the recent conference volume The People in the PLA 2.0 regarding PLA foreign training exercises: The People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA’s) top leaders recognize that the quality of its personnel is a…
