Endorsements

Selected comments from current and former government officials, national-security practitioners, think-tank analysts, scholars and journalists on Sinification’s value as a source of rigorous, policy-relevant insight into debates among China’s intellectual and policy elite.

At a time when China’s political system is becoming ever harder to read, direct access to officials has contracted sharply, and the space for candid intellectual exchange has narrowed, Sinification aims to make debates within the Chinese establishment more accessible, more contextualised, and more useful to policymakers, analysts and the wider China-watching community. Several of the endorsements below speak not only to the quality of the publication and its analysis, but also to its distinctive ability to surface debates, trends, and viewpoints that are often obscured by censorship, information controls, or by our own simplifications and assumptions.