2020 Issue 14

This issue highlights the CCP’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and its efforts to rewrite the narrative globally through propaganda and coercive diplomacy. There is also coverage of the changing geopolitical implications of the PRC’s rise, both in the South China Sea and across the globe. There is also coverage of the PRC’s lending programs in Africa and its domestic manufacturing industry, both of which are facing renewed scrutiny in the midst of the pandemic.