China In The World 2022 - Open Sessions

Doublethink Lab

CITW 2022 is in Berlin from Dec. 6-8th. Join us via Livestream for an unmissable array of talks, panels and the China Index 2022 launch.

<p>CITW 2022 will be held in Berlin from December 6-8th. Join us via <strong>Livestream</strong> for three days of unmissable lightning talks, panel discussions, and the launch of the China Index 2022, the first initiative to measure and compare the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s influence in different countries and regions around the world.</p><p>The CITW network brings together activists, academics, civil society members, journalists and other stakeholders to improve understanding of China’s global influence and strengthen democratic resilience. Doublethink Lab organizes CITW summits to encourage dialogue, exchange ideas, and promote new collaborations.</p><p>Over the first two days, we will livestream a series of lightning talks by some of the world’s foremost China-facing civil society advocates and academics. The topics span the PRC's evolving role in Africa, Asia, and Central Asia, relations with the European Union, the response to the Russia-Ukraine war, and efforts to influence Chinese diaspora communities. </p><p>On the morning of December 8th, Doublethink Lab and the GMF will co-host a Q&amp;A session with a leading member of the German government or business community focusing on the evolution of Germany’s China policy. The Q&amp;A will be followed by a panel discussion on European China policy featuring leading European parliamentary and policy voices on China. </p><p>In the afternoon, Doublethink Lab will then launch the China Index 2022, unveiling rankings for 82 countries, and sharing key findings from the CITW network of researchers responsible for collecting data across the Index’s 9 Domains: Media, Academia, Economy, Society, Military, Technology, Law Enforcement, Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy.</p>

<h2>D﻿ecember 6th</h2><h2>C﻿hina in Asia </h2><h3>11:00-11:30</h3><h3>Impact of Indo-Pacific Geopolitics on China-Southeast Asia Relations</h3><p>Khoo Ying Hooi, Senior Lecturer at the Department of International and Strategic Studies, Universiti Malaya, kicks off by asking how, as the U.S.-China strategic competition intensifies, ASEAN’s role in the Indo-Pacific is coming under scrutiny and the concept of the Indo-Pacific itself is now the subject of a tug of war between external powers.</p><h3>11:30-12:00 </h3><h3>The affair between the dragon and the markhor </h3><p>Pakistan was once a strong American partner in South Asia. But as that relationship soured, Islamabad has moved into a tighter embrace with Beijing. What's driving this love-affair? Veteran Pakistani journalist Shahzeb Jillani gives the lowdown on one of China’s closest bilateral relationships.</p><h3>12:00-12:30 </h3><h3>The Civic Media Observatory: A tool to identify narratives about China's Belt and Road Initiative in Asia</h3><p>Giovanna Fleck, Rezwan and Filip Noubel of Global Voices, an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists, present the Civic Media Observatory: a unique tool to identify, analyze, and track Asian BRI’s narratives by showcasing research and stories in Bangladesh and beyond. <a href="https://globalvoices.org/special/belt-and-road-observatory/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://globalvoices.org/special/belt-and-road-observatory/.</a></p><p></p><h2>EU-China relationship</h2><h3>14:00-14:30</h3><h3>China in the Balkans</h3><p>Ivana Nikolic of the The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) shares takeaways from the network’s research on instances of cooperation and investment between China and various countries in the region, as well as an ongoing project to visualize these arrangements via an interactive map: https://china.balkaninsight.com/  </p><p> </p><h3>14:30-15:00 </h3><h3>How Hong Kong is used to whitewash Germany-EU-China Relations</h3><p>Economic ties between Hong Kong and Germany deeply impact the Germany-China and EU-China relationship, leading to reluctance on behalf of Germany and other EU states to severely criticize China’s human rights violations, including those in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Watch’s  Anouk Wear proposes policy recommendations that focus on reducing Hong Kong’s role in enabling this whitewashing.</p><h3>15:00 - 15:30</h3><h3>EU's approaches on Hong Kong in a new era of EU-China relations </h3><p>Within the EU elite discourse, the question of Hong Kong has always been understood as a British colonial issue and the rest of the Europe has limited power to defend the city's guaranteed autonomy. However, according to the European Commission's Communique on Hong Kong published in 1997, the EU Office in Hong Kong was established in 1993 to represent European interest in the city and liaise with the Hong Kong Government directly on trade and economic affairs. The EU-Hong Kong Annual Structural Dialogue also shows that EU-Hong Kong bilateral relations would be interesting to research on due to their asymmetrical statuses; on the one hand, the EU is a unique economic and political union between 27 member states; on the other hand, Hong Kong is a de-facto city-state which has state-like power to conclude free trade agreements with sovereign countries around the world.</p><p></p><h2>O﻿versea Chinese</h2><h3>16:00-16:30 </h3><h3>Hong Kong Transnational Repression</h3><p>Research analyst Ai-men Lau (劉羿雯) and colleague Chia Yuan Hsu present their 2022 Doublethink Lab Hong Kong report examining three key facets of the post-National Security Law pro-democracy movement: the information environment and disinformation, threats and harassment facing overseas Hong Kongers, and the challenges facing the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement.</p><p>Doublethink Lab will also present training conducted for overseas Hong Kongers and organizations, and how we determined what type of training was needed.</p><p> </p><h3>16:30-17:00</h3><h3>Analyzing Chinese Diaspora Communities who agree with CCP Propaganda</h3><p>Doublethink Lab social researcher Roy Ngerng presents a survey conducted among Chinese diaspora communities in Malaysia and New Zealand that shows how local factors, including  attitudes and perspectives towards their society, government and democracy, influences attitudes towards CCP propaganda.</p><p> </p><h3>17:00-17:30 </h3><h3>Advocating for legal accountability regarding Hong Kong</h3><p>Hong Kong’s presence in international media seems to have faded after the national security law was passed in the city. Some seems to be believe that the city is now a lost cause. Is resistance still happening in the city? Is advocacy for the city still possible?</p><p>In this session, Chung Ching Kwong from IPAC will dive into these questions and share with participants the experience of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. IPAC is a network of over 200 politicians focusing on China from 30 legislature. IPAC has been advocating for legal accountability with regards Hong Kong and launched various campaign to support the cause of the city.</p><p></p><h2>MEP Reinhard Bütikofer's Keynote</h2><h3>17:45-18:15  </h3><h3>How can Europe avoid falling into a dependency trap with China?</h3><p>MEP Reinhard Bütikofer on how Europe can avoid falling into the Russian dependency trap.</p><p>In a special address, Reinhard Bütikofer, who is a co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) and a member of the European parliament, will speak on the topic of how Europe can avoid falling into the Russian dependency trap.</p><p> </p>

<h1>December 7th</h1><h2>Taiwan on the frontline</h2><h3>9:00-9:30 </h3><h3>How Taiwanese society copes with China’s economic duress via democratic defense and citizen action</h3><p>Syu Guan-Ze ( 許冠澤) and Angela (Hsu-Shao) Ou of Taiwanese civil society organization Economic Democracy Union share how China uses economic leverage to fulfil its political ambitions in Taiwan, and show how civil society threatened by China can establish a “democracy defense system”.  </p><p> </p><h3>9:30-10:00</h3><h3>Disinformation during Pelosi’s APAC Visit</h3><p>Hui-An Ho, head of international projects and fact-checker at the non-profit Taiwan FactCheck Center (TFC), based in Germany, shares TFC’s work during U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to APAC and Taiwan in early August, exposing how the Associated Press facilitated the publication of a false, Xinhua-originated narrative that was widely used by well-known international media.</p><p>  </p><h2>China in Africa</h2><h3>11:00-12:30</h3><h3>Unmasking China&#x27;s Non-Interference ‘Principle’ as malign Influence: A Case Study of Zambia</h3><p>Emmanuel Matambo, Research Director at the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Africa-China Studies, traces the evolution of Zambia-China relations, from their ideological genesis to the current, more pragmatic era characterized by China&#x27;s growing influence throughout several changes of government, unmasking and debunking China&#x27;s claim that its non-interference &quot;principle&quot; is sacrosanct.</p><h3> </h3><h3>11:30-12:00</h3><h3>Media vulnerabilities to PRC influence in 3 African countries </h3><p>Chris Roper, Amanda Strydom and Justin Arenstein of Code for Africa, the continent’s largest federation of civic technology and data journalism labs, showcase research from roundtables with media professionals into the mechanisms which the PRC has used to influence the media in South Africa, Kenya and Zambia. It discusses examples of how influence operations contribute to the erosion of media freedoms, such as the provision of state media to African news organisations, and how media vulnerabilities are exploited by the PRC.</p><h3></h3><h3>15:00-15:30</h3><h3>African Perspectives on China’s Media Engagement on the Continent</h3><p>In this panel discussion, Oliver Young, editor at China Digital Times, Dr. Greg Gondwe, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Journalism at California State University – San Bernardino, and Lina Benabdallah, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University, aim to imagine the future of China-Africa media initiatives from African perspectives. The overarching theme will be how African actors can benefit on their own terms from China’s increasing media engagement on the continent.</p><p> </p><h2>China in the Ukraine-Russia War</h2><h3>16:00-16:30</h3><h3>Shifting loyalties: Central Asian states leaning towards China in the light of Ukraine War</h3><p>Ani Kintsurashvili of Civic IDEA, a Georgian NGO and civil society institution, presents her analysis of changing policies of the Central Asia states – a case of China&#x27;s long-term and systematic work paying off. Since the start of Russia&#x27;s aggression in Ukraine, loyalties are leaning more towards China, as opposed to Russia, with important implications for future engagement in the region.  </p><p> </p><h3>16:30-17:00</h3><h3>Mediated Influence: How Chinese-language Media in Australia Reported the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine</h3><p>Dr Lennon Chang, Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, examines how Chinese-language media in Australia reported the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine in the first 100 days. Dr Chang contends that understanding China’s media influence requires interrogation of media ownership, social networks and economic flows, and calls for more collaborative methods and socially engaged research projects.</p><p> </p><h3>17:00-17:30 </h3><h3>The Importance of Little Pinks in PRC Information Manipulation </h3><p>Tim Niven, Research Lead at Doublethink Lab, argues for the value of analyzing PRC patriotic accounts, also called &quot;Little Pinks,&quot; in the study of PRC information manipulation. Tim will demonstrate technological advances made at Doublethink Lab to facilitate analyzing networks of Little Pinks on Chinese-language Twitter, and discuss the future development of this analytical capacity to other platforms and languages.</p><p></p><h2>Closing Remark</h2><h3>1﻿7:45</h3><h3>Badiucao</h3><p>Badiucao is one of the most popular and prolific political artist from China, and he confronts a variety of social and political issues head on in his work. He got a nickname as China&#x27;s Banksy due to keep his identity secret since the beginning of his art career. He uses his art to challenge the censorship and dictatorship in China via his Twitter account @badiucao. His work was used by Amnesty International, Freedom House, BBC, CNN and China Digital Times and exhibited in Australia America and Italy.</p>

<h1>December 8th</h1><p></p><h2>China in the World – EU Dialogue</h2><p>Doublethink Lab and the German Marshall Fund co-host a double-header of events looking at the future of China policy in Germany and Europe.</p><h3>10:00 – 10:45</h3><h3>Q&amp;A with Frank Müller-Rosentritt (MdB, FDP): Where should Germany’s China policy go from here?</h3><p>Andrew Small, a senior transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund's Asia Program and author of the newly released book, “No Limits: the Inside Story of China’s War with the West”, leads a question and answer session with Frank Müller-Rosentritt, a member of the German Bundestag who sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee and is the Free Democratic Party (FDP)’s standing rapporteur for China and Asia, on the future of Germany’s China policy.</p><h3></h3><h3>10:45 – 12:00</h3><h3>Panel: Towards a more constructive European China policy</h3><p>Andrew Small of the German Marshall Fund moderates a panel discussion with Ana Krstinovska, President of the North Macedonian think tank and consultancy ESTIMA, Dr. Angela Stanzel, Associate in the Asia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Katja Drinhausen, Head of Program, Politics &amp; Society at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), and Martin Hála, Founder and Director of Sinopsis focusing on how European policymakers should respond to China’s rising influence and cultivate more constructive ties with Beijing.</p><p></p><h2>China Index 2022 Media Event</h2><h3>13:00 – 13:35</h3><h3>China Index 2022 Launch</h3><p>Doublethink Lab will launch the China Index 2022, the first attempt to measure and compare China’s influence around the world, unveiling rankings for 82 countries online. Doublethink Lab Chair Puma Shen will present key research takeaways, exposing patterns of PRC influence at play in different regions and country clusters, highlighting areas of resilience, and drilling down into Domain-specific takeaways.  </p><p></p><h3>13:35 – 14:20</h3><h3>China Index 2022 Country Perspectives - Expert Panel</h3><p>China in the World partners for Germany (Didi Kirsten Tatlow), the UK (Martin Thorley), Pakistan (Shahzeb Jillani) and Ukraine (Sorin Ionita) will share experiences and takeaways from collecting China Index data. A global line-up of China experts will also be on hand, including CITW partners from Central America &amp; the Caribbean, Central Asia, East &amp; Southeast Asia, Europe, Asia, North Africa &amp; West Asia, North America, Oceania, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. When the presentations are concluded, we will open the floor to questions.</p>

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