Alex Colville

Alex Colville is a researcher and database coordinator for the China Media Project. He has written on
Chinese affairs for The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Wire China. He has a background in coding
from a scholarship with the Lede Program for Data Journalism at Columbia University. Alex was based in
Beijing from 2019 to 2022, where his work as Staff Writer for The World of Chinese won two SOPA awards

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Articles by Alex Colville

DeepSeek: A Tool Tuned for Social Governance

Executive Summary: The government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) does not just envision its “AI+ initiative” as bolstering the national economy but aiding its plans for modernizing its

Media Appearances

Jamestown Senior Fellow Olevs Nikers Interviewed for Euronews

Jamestown Senior Fellow Olevs Nikers was interviewed by Euronews for the article “NATO may turn to using a fleet of sea drones to protect vulnerable... MORE

Books and Reports

Terrorism Trends in South and Southeast Asia

While the Arab Middle East is political Islam’s ideological and historical core, South Asia and Southeast Asia, concentrated in the Indonesian archipelago, make up the modern demographic core of the Muslim world. Advocates of political jihadism have been adept at exploiting pre-existing territorial and ethnic grievances, both perceived and... MORE