A Curated List of Material on China’s Global Challenge to Democracy from the International Forum for Democratic Studies and Journal of Democracy
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China’s Competition in the Spheres of Ideas and Norms
Authoritarianism Goes Global: Countering Democratic Norms, Journal of Democracy, July 2015
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/authoritarianism-goes-global-countering-democratic-norms/
We’re underestimating China’s impact on governance in Latin America: Three persistent myths, International Forum for Democratic Studies, November 2019
https://theglobalamericans.org/2019/11/were-underestimating-chinas-impact-on-governance-in-latin-america-three-persistent-myths/
Compromising the Knowledge Economy: Authoritarian Challenges to Independent Intellectual Inquiry, International Forum for Democratic Studies, October 2020
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-authoritarian-assault-on-knowledge/
China’s Message Machine, Journal of Democracy, October 2020
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/chinas-message-machine/
China’s Threat to Global Democracy, Journal of Democracy, December 2022
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/chinas-threat-to-global-democracy/
Commanding Ideas: Think Thanks as Platforms for Authoritarian Influence, International Forum for Democratic Studies, December 2020
https://www.ned.org/sharp-power-and-democratic-resilience-series-commanding-ideas/
China at the UN: Choking Civil Society, Journal of Democracy, July 2021
https://journalofdemocracy.org/articles/china-at-the-un-choking-civil-society/
It’s Xi Jinping’s Party Now, International Forum for Democratic Studies, December 2022
https://www.power3point0.org/2022/12/01/its-xi-jinpings-party-now-what-the-ccps-move-from-collective-to-singular-leadership-might-mean-for-the-world/
China’s Media Manipulation and Propaganda
China’s Foreign Propaganda Machine, Journal of Democracy, October 2015
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/authoritarianism-goes-global-ii-chinas-foreign-propaganda-machine/
Media and Beyond: China’s Global Information Ambitions, International Forum for Democratic Studies, May 2017
https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Shanthi%20Kalathil%20May%204th%202017%20USCC%20testimony.pdf
China’s Global Media Footprint, International Forum for Democratic Studies, February 2021
https://www.ned.org/sharp-power-and-democratic-resilience-series-chinas-global-media-footprint/
Censorship, Surveillance, and Human Rights, International Forum for Democratic Studies, February 2022
https://www.ned.org/censorship-surveillance-and-human-rights-10-ways-these-trends-intersect-with-the-2022-beijing-winter-olympics/
How Beijing Runs the Show in Hollywood, Journal of Democracy, April 2022
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-beijing-runs-the-show-in-hollywood/
Lessons on Digital Authoritarianism from a Pro-Beijing Disinformation Network, International Forum for Democratic Studies, July 2022
https://www.power3point0.org/2022/07/07/lessons-on-digital-authoritarianism-from-a-pro-beijing-disinformation-network/
China’s Quest for Technological Dominance
The Road to Digital Unfreedom: President Xi’s Surveillance State, Journal of Democracy, January 2019
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-road-to-digital-unfreedom-president-xis-surveillance-state/
Double-Edged Sword: China’s Sharp Power Exploitation of Emerging Technologies, International Forum for Democratic Studies, April 2021
https://www.ned.org/sharp-power-democratic-resilience-chinas-exploitation-of-emerging-technologies/
Starting the Debate on Facial Recognition: A Case Study from Belgrade, International Forum for Democratic Studies, June 2022
https://www.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Starting-Debate-on-Facial-Recognition-Case-Study-from-Belgrade-Krivokapic.pdf
Why TikTok is a Threat to Democracy, Journal of Democracy, October 2022
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/why-tiktok-is-a-threat-to-democracy/
Is Digitalization Endangering Democracy in Mauritius, International Forum for Democratic Studies, December 2022
https://www.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Roukaya-Kasenally_Is-Digitalization-Endangering-Democracy-in-Mauritius.pdf
Responding to the CCP’s Overarching Challenge to Democracy
Sharp Power: Rising Authoritarian Influence, International Forum for Democratic Studies, December 2017
https://www.ned.org/sharp-power-rising-authoritarian-influence-forum-report/
China’s International Influence on Democracy, International Forum for Democratic Studies, June 2019
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/060519_Walker_Testimony.pdf
China: Totalitarianism’s Long Shadow, Journal of Democracy, April 2021
https://journalofdemocracy.org/articles/china-totalitarianisms-long-shadow/
Combatting Beijing’s Sharp Power: How Australia’s Civil Society Led the Way, Journal of Democracy, July 2022
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/combating-beijings-sharp-power-how-australias-civil-society-led-the-way/
Combating Beijing’s Sharp Power: Taiwan’s Democracy Under Fire, Journal of Democracy, July 2022
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/860234
Combatting Beijing’s Sharp Power: Transparency Wins in Europe, Journal of Democracy, July 2022
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/combating-beijings-sharp-power-transparency-wins-in-europe/
The Sharp Power Research Portal, International Forum for Democratic Studies
https://sharppower.org/
