Think tank organises webinar on Chinese threats

Scholars around the world gathered together to discuss the emerging threat to the world order by the Chinese Communist Party in a webinar titled ‘Chinese Communist Party: An Existential Threat to Humanity and the Rules-based World Order’. The webinar was organised by Usanas Foundation, an Udaipur-based geopolitical and security affairs think tank.

 The speakers at the event were Namrata Hasija, senior fellow at Centre for China Analysis and Studies, Abhijit Iyer Mitra, senior fellow at Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Teng Biao, Grove Human Rights scholar, Hunter College and president, China Against Death Penalty. The CEO of Usanas Foundation, Abhinav Pandya, moderated the event.

 Hasija’s address was centred around China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Highlighting the Chinese propaganda around the BRI, she said, “During the first BRI forum in China in 2017, a lot of video propaganda was released in English as the Chinese tried to explain to the world how important the BRI was. When India refused to join it, there was a lot of criticism of India.” She informed China has expanded its debt trap in the past few years.

Teng Biao informed that Xi Jinping attacked and killed the dissidents in China. The Chinese government has also tightened its control on the Internet, universities, and civil society in a comprehensive crackdown.