DKI APCSS Research Fellow Anu Anwar has a new article in the East Asia Forum entitled “How China is using tourists to realise its geopolitical goals (link is external).”

According to Anwar: “Two factors make regulating tourist flows tempting for Chinese policymakers: the size of its international tourism industry and the control China can still exercise over outward tourism. But whether tourism has been an effective political tool is debated.”

Read the full article at: https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/09/19/how-china-is-using-tourists-to-realise-its-geopolitical-goals/ (link is external)

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