2023 Issue 24

Liza Tobin and Michael Auslin call for a refashioning of America’s approach to the People’s Republic, while Xi Jinping asserts that he can redefine human rights to suit the Chinese Communist Party’s interests.

Another example of the PRC silencing critics outside its borders as Safeguard Defenders reveals how PRC police entered Mongolia and kidnapped an 80-year-old activist.

Worsening economic circumstances and ever harsher social controls have led to the exodus of tens of thousands of Chinese citizens from the PRC over the last few months, with many making the dangerous passage through Central American and Mexico to cross the U.S. border illegally.