Publications
Appearances
Maria Repnikova is available for media commentary on Chinese media and civil society politics, China’s soft power, information influence, China-Russia and China-Africa engagements.
Media
“China in Ethiopia: Between a savior and an exploiter.” Global Voices. September 24, 2021;
“China as a cultural threat in Ethiopia: From food to cultural appropriation.” Global Voices. September 17, 2021.
“No, the Chaos in America Is Not a Gift to China and Russia.” The New York Times. January 15, 2021.
“Does China’s Propaganda Work?” The New York Times. April 16, 2020.
“The Subtle Muckrakers of the Coronavirus Epidemic,” The New York Times. February 5, 2020.
“China’s ‘responsive’ authoritarianism,” Washington Post. November 27, 2018.
“#MeToo movement in China: Powerful yet fragile,” (with Weile Zhou). Al Jazeera Opinion. October 22, 2018.
“China’s Lessons for Fighting Fake News,” Foreign Policy. September 26, 2018.
“Impact of Google Returning to China Will Reach Beyond Chinese Market,” The Globe Post. August 18, 2018.
“Why China’s Xi is not ‘Putin-Plus,’” Al Jazeera Opinon. March 9, 2018.
“The Varied Views of Dissidents in China—A Response to James Palmer,” Los Angeles Review of Books Blog. July 19, 2017.
"Liu Xiaobo is Gone, But Resistance Continues," Dissent. July 18, 2017.
"China's New Media: Pushing Political Boundaries Without Being Political," (with Kecheng Fang), Foreign Affairs. October 12, 2016.
“Behind the Fall of China’s Greatest Newspaper,” (with Kecheng Fang), Foreign Policy. January 29, 2015.
“Google is returning to China? It never really left,” (with Tim Libert), The Guardian. September 21, 2015.
“Is this China’s Chernobyl Moment?” OpenDemocracy. August 26, 2015.
Participated in ChinaFile Conversation on the Tianjin Explosion, August 18, 2015.
“Sochi 2014: Celebrating Authoritarianism,” (with Elena Minina), Al Jazeera English. February 8, 2014.
“The Putin-Khodorkovsky Dichotomy: The Media Got it All Wrong,” (with Elena Minina), Al Jazeera English. December 29, 2013.
“China's Journalists Are No Revolutionaries,” The Wall Street Journal. January 15, 2013
“China's Xi Inherits New Approaches to Changing Media Landscapes,” World Politics Review. November 15, 2012.
Interviews
Interviewed by NPR Special Series China Unbound. (Anthony Kuhn, “Chinese Leaders Leverage Media To Shape How The World Perceives China,” NPR. October 4, 2018.)
Interviewed by Al Jazeera The Listening Post. (“The story of China's Southern Media Group,” Al Jazeera. September 23, 2018.)
Interviewed by CNN World. (Ben Westcott, “Putin arrives in Beijing for state visit with birthday buddy Xi Jinping,” CNN. June 8, 2018.)
Interviewed by Politico magazine on China’s media coverage of US elections, July 3, 2015.
Interviewed by Al Jazeera English on China's gains in Ukraine, March 15, 2014.
Interviewed by AFP for a report on Bo Xilai and China's historical memory, June 10, 2013 (Carol Huang, “China Expunges Bo's Once Stellar Reputation,” AFP News. August 4, 2013).
Interviewed by BBC News for a report on Chinese media, May 12, 2013 (Celia Hatton, “How a Chinese Journalist Took on a Top Official,” BBC News, May 14, 2013)