Peter Ferdinand (2016), “Westward Ho – The China Dream and ‘One Belt, One Road’: Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping,” International Affairs (92):914-957. . John Ikenberry and Darren J. Lim (2017), China’s Emerging Institutional Statecraft: The Asian Infrastructure Investment..…

But over the year and half, the locus of the debate over Confucius Institutes has shifted from academe to the sphere as CIs became tied up in larger Washington about Chinese government-influenced activities and espionage-related threats on American campuses.. ... Confucius Institute here..…

“It’s not a formal connection in the sense that what happens in NAFTA is related to his, but it’s the same impulse,” said Eric Miller, a trade consultant who has worked for the Canadian government and continues to advise them on the negotiations. “What it is fundamentally is the United..…

Couple that with the Chinese government’s affection for the death penalty; in 2015 alone at least 1,634 Chinese were put to death, compared to 28 in the States. Even worse, there is legitimate speculation that the government actually profits from the death penalty via..…