Samantha Hoffman

Dr. Samantha Hoffman is Managing Director of ANS Analytics LLC, an open-source intelligence company that combines deep subject matter expertise with data-driven solutions. Her work has helped shape global approaches to understanding challenges posed by the Chinese party-state’s national security strategy, and how the Party-state harnesses technology for security purposes.

She holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Nottingham (2017), an MSc in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford (2011), a BA in International Affairs from State University (2010), and a BA in Chinese Language and Culture from Florida State University (2010).

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Grasping Power with Both Hands: Social Credit, the Mass Line, and Party Control

10.10.2018 Samantha Hoffman

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long claimed that only it can lead the Chinese people to prosperity. This claim underlies Deng Xiaoping’s famous saying...

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific

Managing the State: Social Credit, Surveillance and the CCP’s Plan for China

08.17.2017 Samantha Hoffman

On July 20, the Chinese government released its Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan. [1] The plan has gained significant media attention in part because...

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific

Ensuring Comprehensive State Security in the “Ideological Battleground” Online

11.16.2015 Samantha Hoffman

Mao Zedong once warned: “Whenever you want to overthrow a regime, you must first create public opinion… If the military defense line is not stable,...

Publication China Brief China

Portents of Change in China’s Social Management

08.03.2012 Samantha Hoffman

Within the period of a few short weeks, two very similar environmental protests erupted in Qidong, Jiangsu and in Shifang, Sichuan. In both incidents thousands...

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific