Conversations from China's Global Sharp Power Podcast Hoover Institution

Sophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch, discusses China’s Efforts to Reshape Global Rights Governance.

Christopher Walker, vice president for studies and analysis at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), discusses sharp power as a concept.

Suisheng Zhao, a professor and director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, and the founder and chief editor of the Journal of Contemporary China, discusses China “Going Global.”

Xiao’s current research focuses on state censorship, propaganda, and disinformation, as well as emerging AI-driven mass surveillance and social control in China.

Hoover senior fellow, Elizbeth Economy discusses the structure of the Chinese party-state, and Xi Jinping's populist appeal.