Losing Faith in China

New policies for religious control show how worried Beijing is over its grip on society.

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At an ad hoc Politburo Study Session last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for the acceleration of the Sinicization of religions. Sinicization refers to the modification of someone or something under Chinese influence, a concept widely used by the Chinese Communist Party to assimilate minorities or subordinate other entities to the party. In his […]

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Victoria Herczegh
Viktória Herczegh is an analyst at Geopolitical Futures. She is also a PhD candidate at the Political Science and International Relations Doctoral School of Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Her PhD research topic is "Double Standards projected by Great Powers". Ms. Herczegh holds a bachelor's degree of Chinese Language and Culture and a master's degree of East Asian Studies. She also spent one semester at Shanghai International Studies University studying Mandarin Chinese. Ms. Herczegh is a native Hungarian fluent in English, Spanish, French and Mandarin.