Category: State Analysis
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Ethnicity as Instrument: How China abuses its diaspora
China has sought to harness its tremendous global diaspora to increase its global influence as well as appease domestic nationalistic pressures. It has expanded its control over global Chinese media and culture and weaponized its scholar population in the service of intelligence gathering and subversion. This has tremendously unsettling implications for race relations for ethnic…
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Identity as Adversary: Russia as Anti West
In an effort to compensate for its material deficiencies, Russia has constructed an ideology and national identity structured around opposition to a perceived West. This has allowed it to construct otherwise unlikely alliances with state actors and become ideological bedfellows with populist nationalists and anarcho-communists, in exchange for limiting its diplomatic flexibility and forcing it…
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