China

Research Professor
Jørgen Carling

Senior Researcher
Ilaria Carrozza

Research Professor
Åshild Kolås

Research Professor
Stein Tønnesson

PRIO Global Fellow
Qin Yaqing

04/05/2022
NORM Project Kick-Off Meeting

The NORM project ('Shaping the Digital World Order: Norms and Agency along the Digital Silk Road in Southeast Asia') was officially launched with a kick-off meeting on 4 May.

24/06/2021
NORM: New Project on the Digital Silk Road

The NORM project aims at finding out how China’s Digital Silk Road shapes the digital world order and its norms, and the agency that recipient developing countries exercise in response. This is one out of five PRIO projects that today have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.

18/12/2019
Project Funded: e-Topia: China, India and Biometric Borders

How is e-governance and the Internet of Things (IoT) changing the everyday lives of the people of India and China, and how are these multifaceted changes affecting international relations?

Congratulations to Åshild Kolås, who will lead the project e-Topia: China, India and Biometric Borders, which has now received 4-year funding from the Foreign Policy programme of the Research Council of Norway. Congratulations also to project participant Mareile Kaufmann, as well as partners in Asia; Centre for Internet and Society, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Hezhou University and Digital Asia Hub.

30/04/2019
United Nations Association of China Visits PRIO

The United Nations Association of China (UNA-China) delegation visited PRIO on Friday, April 26. UNA-China is a Chinese nongovernment organization tasked with promoting the ideals of the U.N. Charter in China.

01/07/2015
Reclaiming the Forest

Reclaiming the Forest: The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya

As pastoralists in China change their way of life from subsistence activities to ranching and other income generating activities, government policies to sedentarise nomadic herders and fence pastures have a vital impact on social and environmental conditions on the grasslands.

Reclaiming the Forest describes the reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, a group of former hunters who today see themselves as “keepers of reindeer” as they engage in ethnic tourism and exchange experiences with their Ewenki neighbors in Russian Siberia. Though to some their future seems problematic, this book focuses on the present, challenging the pessimistic outlook, reviewing current issues, and describing the efforts of the Ewenki to reclaim their forest lifestyle and develop new forest livelihoods. Both academic and literary contributions balance the volume written by authors who are either indigenous to the region or have carried out fieldwork among the Aoluguya Ewenki since the late 1990s.

25/02/2015
Can Putin Trust China? New Blog Post by Stein Tønnesson

The Ukraine Crisis has made Russia more dependent on China. Putin is popular in Beijing, and Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are the best of friends. But can China save Russia from its crisis?