Martin Hála is director of AcaMedia and the website Sinopsis.cz, which tracks topics related to China in the Czech Republic and beyond. He is coeditor of Investigative Journalism in China: Eight Cases in Chinese Watchdog Journalism (2010).
Any open society’s best weapon against Chinese influence operations is its openness—the ability to investigate and expose sharp-power manipulations, diminishing their strength.
Explores how authoritarian regimes are deploying “sharp power” to undermine democracies from within by weaponizing universities, institutions, media, technology, and entertainment industries.