Ian Johnson

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  • September 9, 2019
    In recent years, China has spent a small fortune trying to influence the world through “soft power” — relying on language, cuisine and culture, rather...
  • May 31, 2019
    When Chinese law professor Xu Zhangrun began publishing articles last year criticizing the government's turn toward a harsher variety of authoritarianism, it seemed inevitable that...