The Digital Silk Road (DSR) is the technological and cyberspace component of Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It can be understood as an initiative to fund, develop, implement, and expand China’s technological capabilities abroad, thereby promoting greater PRC sway in the standardization of global digital infrastructure. For this rea…

This criminal charge, as provided in Article 293 of the PRC Criminal Code, has historical roots in the notorious Mao-era crime of ‘hooliganism’ (流氓罪). It is now broadly and arbitrarily applied in China to suppress speech and behaviors perceived by the authorities as threats to the political and social order. Since Xi Jinping came to power in lat…

First introduced in 2021, this phrase plays a key role in framing the power and legitimacy of General Secretary Xi Jinping during his unprecedented third term. It is the claim that Xi’s China has achieved a civilizational renaissance through a set of new ideas on governance and development and that the resulting new form — closely tied to anothe…