Andrew Chubb

Andrew Chubb is a PhD student at the University of Western Australia, researching the relationship between Chinese nationalism, public opinion and policy on maritime disputes in the South China Sea and East China Sea. He blogs at South Sea Conversations and can be found on Twitter @zhubochubo .

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China’s Information Management in the Sino-Vietnamese Confrontation: Caution and Sophistication in the Internet Era

06.04.2014 Andrew Chubb

After the worst anti-China violence for 15 years took place in Vietnam this month, it took China’s propaganda authorities nearly two days to work out...

Publication China Brief China

Propaganda as Policy? Explaining the PLA’s “Hawkish Faction” (Part Two)

08.09.2013 Andrew Chubb

If outspoken Chinese military officers are, as Part One suggested, neither irrelevant loudmouths, nor factional warriors, nor yet the voice of the People’s Liberation Army...

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific

Propaganda, Not Policy: Explaining the PLA’s “Hawkish Faction” (Part One)

07.25.2013 Andrew Chubb

The regular appearance in the Chinese media of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) figures calling for aggressive foreign policy causes controversy and confusion among foreign observers....

Publication China Brief China

Radar Incident Obscures Beijing’s Conciliatory Turn toward Japan

02.15.2013 Andrew Chubb

On February 5, Japanese Defense Minister Onodera Itsunori told the world that a Chinese Navy frigate had pointed “something like fire-control radar” at a Japanese...

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific