Niva Yau
Niva Yau is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub. Her research work focuses on China-Central Asia relations and China’s new overseas security management infrastructure and initiatives. Between 2018 and 2023, Ms. Yau was based at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where she worked on commissioned research covering China’s foreign policy, trade, and security in its western neighborhood, covering Central Asia and Afghanistan. She is originally from Hong Kong and is currently based in Tokyo, Japan.
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PRC Positive Messaging Frames Successful Colonization in Xinjiang
Executive Summary: Through television broadcasts overseas, like Jongugu Sapar in Kyrgyzstan, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) presents an image of ethnic harmony and economic development in Xinjiang, downplaying or
Local Reporting Overstates PRC’s Economic Impact on the Kyrgyz Republic
Executive Summary: Beijing pushes an inaccurate narrative in Kyrgyz media, overstating the positive impact of its investment in and development aid to Kyrgyzstan and claiming that this makes it a
Beijing Pushes Local Censorship to Protect PRC Companies in the Kyrgyz Republic
Executive Summary: Beijing pressures the Kyrgyz government to censor voices criticizing the People’s Republic of China (PRC), its companies, and its citizens within the Kyrgyz Republic. As PRC companies have
PRC Manipulation of Information Gatekeepers in the Kyrgyz Republic
Executive Summary: Beijing aims to enforce censorship outside its borders by targeting the gatekeepers of information and manipulating narratives that it does not currently monopolize. Over the past two hundred
China’s Public Memory Management in Kyrgyzstan
Executive Summary: Beijing practices public memory management beyond its borders to neutralize critics by coopting elites and suppressing independent voices. Despite protests, Kyrgyzstan has consistently supported Beijing’s interests, particularly regarding
Expanding China’s Central Asia Playbook to Afghanistan
Introduction For almost 30 years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has deployed various strategies to increase its economic and political influence in Central Asia. In 1994, then-Premier Li Peng