Over the past few years, the authorities in Beijing have given churches across the country orders to “Sinicize” their faith. According to detailed five-year plans formulated by both Catholic and Protestant organizations, much of this process involves the predictable palaver of state control: “to actively practice core values of socialism, love the motherland passionately, support the leadership of the Communist Party, obey the law and serve society.”
Mia Shuang Li is a Research Associate with the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. She was formerly an Adjunct Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.
Two South Korean NGOs shuttered their representative offices in China in recent months, according to information on the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) website. This makes for a total of nine foreign NGOs that registered a representative office in China after the Foreign NGO Law went into effect in January 2017 and then subsequently de-registered those offices.
On October 9, the European Commission and the European Agency for Cybersecurity released their long-awaited risk assessment of the region’s 5G network. Written with input from all 28 European Union members, the report warned about a 5G supplier from a “hostile” country, or a country “where there are no legislative or democratic checks and balances in place.” But notably, the report does not explicitly warn against China.
Filip Jirouš works for the Prague-based Sinopsis, focusing on China’s United Front work in the Czech Republic, Xinjiang, and Digital Leninism. He studies Sinology at Charles University in Prague.
Kelsey Broderick is in the Asia practice at Eurasia Group, a political risk consulting firm, where she works on a wide variety of issues and countries, with a particular emphasis on Chinese foreign policy and Taiwan. Prior to joining Eurasia Group, she researched macroeconomic developments and trends in China at the World Bank and worked in education and philanthropy for over three years in Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu. Kelsey earned a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in foreign service with distinction from Georgetown University.
Yixiang Xu is a Fellow with the New Research Initiative at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), working on the Institute’s China-Germany-U.S. triangular relationship initiative. Xu researches American and German perspectives regarding challenges and opportunities posed by expanding Chinese economic, political, and security engagements around the world. The triangular relationship initiative has brings together high-level government officials, academic experts, and business leaders from Germany and the U.S. for workshops and conferences that aim to facilitate transatlantic exchange and foster policy cooperation.
Xu received an M.A. in International Political Economy from The Josef Korbel School of International Studies at The University of Denver and a B.A. in Linguistics and Classics from The University of Pittsburgh. He also studied in Germany, Israel, Italy, and the U.K.
Jan-Peter Kleinhans is Director of the project IT Security in the Internet of Things (IoT) at the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV). His work focuses on the intersection of global semiconductor supply chains, IT security, and geopolitics. He has a special interest in the security and resilience of our future mobile networks. After joining SNV in 2014, Kleinhans analyzed why the market failed to produce reasonably trustworthy consumer IoT devices. He explored if and how standardization, certification, and market surveillance can create economic incentives for IoT manufacturers to produce secure and trustworthy IoT devices. Kleinhans presented his work on 5G security at the German parliament’s committee on foreign affairs, the NATO parliamentary assembly, and at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. He is a Transatlantic Digital Debates 2016 Fellow and studied communication sciences in Uppsala, Sweden and business informatics in Darmstadt, Germany.
Janka Oertel is a Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund (GMF). Based in GMF’s office in Berlin, she focuses on Chinese foreign policy and security in East Asia. Prior to joining GMF, she served as a Program Director at Körber Foundation’s Berlin office. She was responsible for the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum as well as the Asia activities of Körber Foundation’s International Affairs Department. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Jena, focusing on Chinese policies within the United Nations. She was a visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin) and worked at United Nations Headquarters in New York as a Carlo Schmid Fellow. She has published widely on topics related to security in the Asia-Pacific, Chinese foreign policy, Germany’s approach to 5G, and security on the Korean peninsula.
Noah Barkin is Managing Editor in the China practice at Rhodium Group and a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund, for which he writes the monthly “Watching China in Europe” newsletter. Based in Berlin, he specializes in Europe’s relationship with China and the implications of China’s rise for the transatlantic relationship. Previously, Barkin had a 25-year career as a journalist in Berlin, Paris, London, and New York. His work has appeared on Reuters, where he served as a bureau chief, regional news editor, and roving Europe correspondent, as well as in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and Politico, among other publications. In 2019, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington. He is also a host on KCRW, an NPR-affiliated radio station in Berlin, and the author of a book on the Euro. A native Californian, Barkin has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and French from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University.
