Niva Yau

Oct 13, 2024 | jamestown.org | Niva Yau

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 omitting signs of colonialism, forced labor, or suppression of Turkic cultural identity.

Sep 4, 2024 | jamestown.org | Niva Yau

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 trustworthy neighbor, according to analysis of thousands of local media sources.

Jul 6, 2024 | exbulletin.com | Niva Yau

With China grappling with a housing crisis, high youth unemployment, plummeting business and consumer confidence and a sea of ​​local government debt, one might expect the government to pull out all the stops to pull the country out of its economic doldrums. But a meeting of China’s top leaders this month is expected to propose a very different set of reforms.

Jul 1, 2024 | jamestown.org | Niva Yau

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 expanded in country—particularly in the mining sector—extensive environmental damage has provoked local protests. Some cultural products that dramatize protests against PRC companies have faced censorship, occasionally with apparent collusion between the Kyrgyz government and PRC journalists.

May 30, 2024 | jamestown.org | Niva Yau

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 years, groups like the Uyghurs, Dungans, and ethnic Kyrgyz have fled China for the territory of present-day Kyrgyzstan. Even Sinophilic groups such as the Dungans are censored in the media for trying to share their history. Some are eventually coopted by the pro-Beijing regime.