Following the new Chinese cybersecurity law, which was approved by Chinese government in November 2016, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a new announcement on January 22 intended to tighten China’s control over its cyber domain. The November 2016 law was widely criticized for its requirement that foreign companies localize data storage and undergo the government’s annual

Ph.D. Candidate Yan Gu argues that Trump’s authoritarian, strongman style and image as a billionaire and pragmatist coupled with Chinese aversion to political correctness appeals to Chinese Internet users in her article “Why Do Chinese Netizens Love Donald Trump?“ Yan Gu’s research focuses on authoritarian politics and primarily focuses on China.

In 2013, BRICS business leaders announced plans to construct a $185 million submarine cable connecting Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. However, more than three years later, the BRICS cable has not come to fruition, presumably due to intra-bloc political differences and challenging domestic economic positions. China is filling the vacuum left by the

Beth Do, a student in the Master’s in Applied International Studies program at the Jackson School, writes about a recent public event on North Korea featuring The RAND Corporation. The event was sponsored by the Center for Korea Studies at the Jackson School. Over 100 students, faculty, and interested community members gathered on Thursday, November 10,

Margaret Walrod, a UW graduate student in Applied International Studies, was awarded a Summer 2016 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship by the East Asia Center.  She is spending her summer studying Chinese in Beijing with a teacher from the Chinese Language Education program. She writes, “Before my first Chinese class, I couldn’t help

Nicholas Steele, a UW undergraduate in International Studies, was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to study Chinese with the CET Program in Beijing this summer.  He is spending the summer “exploring the old and new city, building friendships, and only speaking Mandarin.” He writes, “I have gotten to know Beijing through

Ph.D. Candidates Clint Work and Seonhee Kim have co-authored a piece about the latest developments in South Korea’s space program, highlighting the military and economic logic behind South Korea’s desire to take on humanity’s last frontier. The article was published in Sino-NK, which is a scholarly collective dedicated to Northeast Asia. Work and Kim are Junior Fellows in the International Policy