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Matthew D Johnson was a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and research director at Garnaut Global. His expertise covers China’s contemporary elite politics, strategic thinking, and political control over the financial sector and private economy. 

Johnson was previously a lecturer in the history and politics of modern China at the University of Oxford, and researcher with the China’s War with Japan program. His academic publications have focused on propaganda, Chinese Communist Party ideology, cultural security, state-society relations, and the Cold War. He has recently coauthored a report on China’s digital renminbi (RMB), The Flipside of China’s Central Bank Digital Currency, with the ASPI International Cyber Policy Centre.

Johnson has been a US Fulbright fellow, a member of the National Committee on United States–China Relations, and a board member of the Malaysian-American Commission on Educational Exchange. He has an AB in social studies from Harvard University and a PhD in history from the University of California, San Diego.

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    The CCP Absorbs China’s Private Sector: Capitalism with Party Characteristics

    A joint report of the Hoover Institution and the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations Hoover visiting fellow Matthew Johnson argues that headline-grabbing crackdowns on some of the best-known firms in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are not isolated phenomena. Rather, the CCP has launched a massive structural undertaking to harness private capital to restore the Party’s political authority across China’s economic landscape, while preserving the technology and capital flows necessary for Xi Jinping’s ambition of making the PRC the world’s dominant superpower. This report dissects how foreign investors, businesses, and governments must grapple with new risks in a PRC economic environment where state objectives come first and national security underpins everything.

    September 7, 2023 by Matthew Johnson via Hoover Institution Press
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    Hoover Institution Launches New Report On China’s Strategy For Global Data Dominance

    The Hoover Institution has launched a new report about China’s strategy to achieve a global edge in the accumulation and control of data with a presentation by its author, Matthew Johnson, Hoover visiting fellow and expert on the Chinese Communist Party’s politics, strategic thinking, and the power it exerts over its country’s financial sector and private economy.

    April 21, 2023 featuring Matthew Johnson via Hoover Daily Report
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    China's Grand Strategy For Global Data Dominance

    China is engaged in a bid to shape how digitized information – data – will be distributed and controlled around the world for the foreseeable future. Xi Jinping’s Party-state is building a massive institutional architecture to maximally exploit data as the fundamental resource of the future global economy and governance system. This new report proposes robust policy solutions to arrest the exposure of huge swaths of the world’s population to the CCP's data accumulation, espionage, and manipulation.

    April 18, 2023 by Matthew Johnson via Hoover Institution Press
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    Pacific Century: Wang Huning: The World's Most Dangerous Thinker?

    David Ownby and Matt Johnson on China's new intellectuals.

    December 13, 2021 interview with David Ownby, Matthew Johnson, Michael R. Auslin via The Pacific Century
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