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The Hoover Institution’s project on China’s Global Sharp Power (CGSP) delivers data-driven analysis and actionable solutions that equip decisionmakers to strike more resilient, balanced, and vigilant relationships with the People’s Republic of China, the most formidable competitor the United States and its partners have ever faced.

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The CCP Absorbs China’s Private Sector: Capitalism with Party Characteristics

Headline-grabbing crackdowns on some of the best-known firms in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are not isolated phenomena. Rather, the CCP has launched a massive structural undertaking to harness private capital to restore the Party’s political authority across China’s economic landscape, while preserving the technology and capital flows necessary for Xi Jinping’s ambition of making the PRC the world’s dominant superpower. This report dissects how foreign investors, businesses, and governments must grapple with new risks in a PRC economic environment where state objectives come first and national security underpins everything.

Sep 27, 2023

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Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security

Silicon Triangle draws on the deliberations of a multidisciplinary expert working group to contemplate the dynamic global supply chain in semiconductors—one in which US industry faces growing vulnerabilities, China aggressively promotes home-grown semiconductor mastery, and Taiwan finds itself with a crucial monopoly on high-end logic chips sought by buyers globally.

Jul 18, 2023

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China's Grand Strategy For Global Data Dominance

China is engaged in a bid to shape how digitized information – data – will be distributed and controlled around the world for the foreseeable future.

Apr 18, 2023

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China’s Sharp Power in Africa: A Handbook for Building National Resilience

Across sub-Saharan Africa, China has burst on to the scene as a leading partner. Although this affords African nations rich opportunities, it also exposes them to the risks of authoritarian sharp power and makes the conditions for democracy in the region more challenging.

Mar 21, 2022

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Digital Currencies: The US, China, And The World At A Crossroads

This multidisciplinary report explores the economic and sociopolitical motives for China’s central bank digital currency and its implications for privacy, international security, and the leading role of the United States in global finance.

Mar 4, 2022

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Eyes Wide Open: Ethical Risks In Research Collaboration With China

Research collaborations with partners in authoritarian nations raise grave ethical challenges.

Dec 15, 2021

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Global Engagement: Rethinking Risk In The Research Enterprise

Neither the US government nor the universities and national laboratories in the US research enterprise are adequately managing the risks posed by research engagements with foreign entities.

Jul 30, 2020

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China's Influence & American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance

This report, written and endorsed by a group of this country’s leading China specialists and students of one-party systems is the result of more than a year of research and represents an attempt to document the extent of China’s expanding influence operations inside the United States.

Nov 29, 2018

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Research Security and Integrity

Eyes Wide Open: Ethical Risks In Research Collaboration With China

December 15, 2021 By Glenn Tiffert , Jeffrey Stoff

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Global Engagement: Rethinking Risk In The Research Enterprise

July 30, 2020 Edited By Glenn Tiffert

via Hoover Institution Press

China's Influence & American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance

November 29, 2018 Edited By Larry Diamond , Orville Schell

via Hoover Institution Press

Critical Technology

Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security

July 18, 2023

via Hoover Institution Press

China's Grand Strategy For Global Data Dominance

April 18, 2023 By Matthew Johnson

via Hoover Institution Press

Digital Currencies: The US, China, And The World At A Crossroads

March 4, 2022 Edited By Darrell Duffie , Elizabeth Economy

via Hoover Institution Press

Eyes Wide Open: Ethical Risks In Research Collaboration With China

December 15, 2021 By Glenn Tiffert , Jeffrey Stoff

via Hoover Institution Press

Malign Foreign Influence

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Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security

A joint report of the Hoover Institution and the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations. Silicon Triangle draws on the deliberations of a multidisciplinary expert working group to contemplate the dynamic global supply chain in semiconductors—one in which US industry faces growing vulnerabilities, China aggressively promotes home-grown semiconductor mastery, and Taiwan finds itself with a crucial monopoly on high-end logic chips sought by buyers globally.

July 18, 2023

via Hoover Institution Press

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Ukraine And Taiwan: A Two-Front Test Of Wills For America And Europe

July 28, 2023

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A Fresh Start: Safeguarding People, Rights, And Research Amid US-China Competition

June 6, 2023

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