The Chinese Communist Party is employing familiar tactics to assert its rule. When co-opting fails, coerce or silence.
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Dr Graeme Smith hosts The Little Red Podcast, is a research fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University and a visiting fellow at Sun Yatsen University's Centre for Oceania Studies. His research interests include local politics in rural China, China's engagement with the Pacific and the geopolitics of search engines.