Why do the ruling classes in China appear so paranoid, asks John MacNab. Surveillance is everywhere, yet Communist Party officials seem to live in a permanent state of paranoia and oversensitivity to perceived slights.

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A recent ISEAS Fulcrum commentary by Hoang Thi Ha and Pham Thi Phuong Thao offers a useful mapping of how Chinese culture and economic opportunity are drawing in young Vietnamese. The authors are right that this bottom-up attraction is unfolding alongside renewed official promotion of people-to-people ties, and that long-standing sensitivities about China have not […]

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