Read our Sharp Power and Democratic Resilience series, a collection of nine reports stemming from our original research on sharp power that...

Maeve Whelan-Wuest is a senior research assistant and project coordinator in the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution. In this capacity, her research focuses on governance and security issues pertaining...

Riley Walters is Research Associate for Asia economy and technology in The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center. He specializes in Northeast Asian macroeconomic issues as well as emerging technologies and cybersecurity. He...

about the event Liu Xiaobo died on July 13, 2017, a victim of intolerance by a fearful Chinese government that imprisoned him for his leadership role in writing and organizing Charter 08. That historic document, which was published on December...