Experimental Method Reveals True South Korean Unification Preferences
A new study published in National Strategy uses a choice-based conjoint approach to determine South Koreans’ unification preferences for various unification scenarios.
China’s Ground Game in Dandong and North Korea
As Sino-North Korean bilateral relations intensify, Adam Cathcart looks at China’s ground game in Pyongyang and Dandong, with a focus on business.
Chinese Intellectuals, the CIA, and Defector Memoirs in the 1960s
Newly declassified documents shed light on a CIA operation to extract high-level intellectuals as defectors from the People’s Republic of China. We also look at defector accounts of meetings with Mao Zedong.
Red Lines, Taiwan, and the UK Foreign Secretary Visit to Beijing
Adam Cathcart unpicks Chinese reponses to a British diplomatic delegation, and the eruption around a UK House of Commons committee’s reframing of Taiwan sovereignty.