2/4: Welcome to the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Automation CASIA, the heart of the heart of PRC supremacy online. (and Philip K. Dick's imagination.) Glenn Tiffert, Jeff Stoff, @HooverInst

Photo:  Chinese army manoeuvers, historical

"Conditions for internet users in China remained profoundly oppressive, and confirmed the country’s status as the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom for the seventh consecutive year."—Freedom House

Glenn Tiffert is a research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China. He manages the Hoover project on China's Global Sharp Power Project.

Jeffrey Stoff, Senior Analyst, Department of Defense