Tag: propaganda

• 100 Years of the Communist Party of China, Special Issue 1

  

  China Report Vol. 58, No. 1, February 2022 100 Years of the Communist Party of China, Special Issue 1 Guest Editors: Jabin T. Jacob & Bhim B. Subba https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/chra/58/1 CONTENTSIntroduction: Towards Exceptionalism: The Communist Party of China and its Uses of History Jabin T. Jacob & Bhim B. Subba https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00094455221074169 ‘Yelling at the Masses’: Making Propaganda Audible…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  February 28, 2022

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  ‘Chinese Dream’, China-Taiwan relations, Communist Party of China (CPC), ethnic policy, labour issues, Marxism, Party Centenary, Party history, propaganda, Sincization, Tibet, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang

• Xi Jinping in Tibet: What India Needs to Look Out For

  The non-military uses of China’s civilian infrastructure build-up in TAR or Xinjiang must not be ignored

  Jabin T. Jacob

  July 29, 2021

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, ethnic policy, infrastructure development, propaganda, Sino-Indian relations, Tibet

• Xi Jinping Visits the Tibet Autonomous Region

  Constant references to the ‘new’ to describe the Party-State’s views of developments on the Tibetan plateau underline Xi’s attempts to leave his personal stamp on Tibet policy.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  July 27, 2021

  Borders, Sub-nationalism

  Buddhism, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Communist Party of China (CPC), economic integration, ethnic policy, infrastructure development, propaganda, Sincization, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Xi Jinping

• China’s Possible Approaches to the US under Joe Biden

  The new American president faces a China that believes increasingly in taking the fight to the opposition.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  January 31, 2021

  Foreign Policy

  COVID-19, disinformation, domestic politics, economic relations, European Union, ideology, Japan, Joe Biden, propaganda, Sino-US relations

• Book : China’s Search for ‘National Rejuvenation’: Domestic and Foreign Policies under Xi Jinping

  Asian perspectives on China’s domestic and foreign policies

  Jabin T. Jacob

  November 1, 2020

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  19th Party Congress, agriculture, ASEAN, Central Asia, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Communist Party of China (CPC), International Liaison Department (ILD), Japan, North Korea, propaganda, Sino-US relations, South Asia, South China Sea disputes, South Korea, state-owned enterprises (SOEs)

• Journal Article : China’s External Propaganda during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Jabin T. Jacob, ‘“To Tell China’s Story Well”: China’s International Messaging during the COVID-19 Pandemic’, China Report, Vol. 56, No. 3 August 2020. 374-392. Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has dented China’s image as an efficient Party-state given how an effort to cover up the outbreak and the resulting delays in reporting led to the virus spreading…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  August 31, 2020

  Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), ‘China model’, Communist Party of China (CPC), COVID-19, great power politics, misinformation, propaganda, Sino-US relations

• Why a post-COVID-19 global order led by China is only a distant threat

  The world order might require changing but China is not going to be able to take leadership for political and economic reasons

  Jabin T. Jacob

  May 16, 2020

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  authoritarianism, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), COVID-19, democracy, Donald Trump, economic growth, one-China policy, propaganda

• A China-led Post-Covid World? What to Expect

  China seems to believe that it will over the next couple of decades have the economic and military capacity to preempt competition or opposition to its will and that this will itself lead to global order and on its terms. But such a world order is actually likely to be an unstable one based as…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  May 9, 2020

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  authoritarianism, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), COVID-19, propaganda, South China Sea disputes, surveillance, technology

• Incompetence, Insecurity and an Epidemic

  Freedom of speech and the diversity of opinion that it engenders are not a reflection of seditious tendencies endangering state security even if they might threaten the regime in power.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  February 20, 2020

  Comparative Politics, Political Parties

  censorship, Communist Party of China (CPC), coronavirus (2019-nCov), COVID-19, economic growth, freedom of speech, Hubei, meritocracy, propaganda, SARS, Wuhan

• Of Elections, Fake News and China

  Indian citizens could perhaps learn much from the Taiwanese election campaign, where various civic groups actively fact-checked each candidate’s speech and confronted them in real time over inconsistencies and inaccuracies.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  January 24, 2020

  Comparative Politics, Political Parties

  Aadhaar, Chinese investments, Communist Party of China (CPC), data security, elections, fake news, Indian economy, political donations, propaganda, Taiwan, telecom, Tsai Ing-wen

• The Many Instruments of Chinese Foreign Policy

  India will need to match China with a capable and expanded foreign service working in coordination with political parties, business communities, intellectual elites and its diaspora but also display adherence to values that are genuinely attractive to the peoples of other nations to push an ‘Indian model’ of politics and development that can challenge the…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  October 8, 2019

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Communist Party of China (CPC), diaspora, domestic politics, International Liaison Department (ILD), Nepal, propaganda, South Asia, United Front Work Department (UFWD), Xi Jinping