Elisa Zhai Autry

Dr. Elisa Zhai Autry is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Before joining Hoover, she served as the chief policy advisor for Public Diplomacy on China and the East Asia–Pacific at the U.S. Department of State.

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How Beijing’s ‘Civilizational Bluff’ Hurts the Global South

The CCP increasingly markets itself to the Global South as a defender of civilizational pluralism against Western notions of Human Rights, masking its own Marxist ideological commitments

Elisa Zhai AutryJanuary 19, 2026