By Michael Akopian For over seventy years, the Uyghur population in China’s northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has been on the receiving end of various cultural eradication, assimilation, and security measures at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. Finally reaching a critical point in the 1990s, Uyghur extremist attacks and general ethnic conflict …
CSR Blog: Reducing the Political Influence of Chinese Lending through the COVID-19 Fallout
By Bartholomew Connolly Background The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity for the U.S. to reframe its economic engagement with Africa. African nations have currently issued approximately $115 billion in sovereign debt, with nearly $30 billion coming due in the next five years, according to the Financial Times.1 The ability of African states to service …
CSR Blog: Put on Your Rose-colored Glasses: Outlook for China’s Political Stability and Growth
By Jennifer Lee In alignment with American public opinion, politicians on both sides of the aisle support policies to address China’s prowess as a “strategic competitor,” though the opinions on tactics differ.1,2 No one expects the Biden administration to hastily alter the US stance and go easy on China.3 This is consistent with the fact …
CSR Blog: Book Review: Jonathan Hillman’s The Emperor’s New Road
By Jacob Larsen Jonathan Hillman’s The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century (Yale University Press, September, 2020) catalogues the difficulties faced by the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as well as the problems it creates. Hillman’s brief introductory chapter describes the sheer scale of the BRI, and lays out his two …
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CSR Blog: Nothing into Something: Biden Can Meaningfully Improve the US-Taiwan Relationship
By Daniel Anaforian Enthusiastic observers in the US and Taiwan watched as President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 into law on December 27, 2020. The excitement over this bill on both sides of the Pacific is due to the fact that contained within this massive omnibus bill was the Taiwan Assurance Act …

