Bradley Jardine

Bradley Jardine

Manages the Oxus Society's research portfolio and is a Fellow at the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute on China and the United States. His journalism background includes roles as Moscow Times editor and Caucasus correspondent for Eurasianet, covering Armenia's Velvet Revolution. He holds dual master's degrees in Russian and Eurasian Studies and Baltic Sea Region Studies from the University of Glasgow, plus an MMS in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University. His research examines surveillance technology proliferation in Central Asia and China's expanding security role in former Soviet territories. He authored the Kennan Institute monograph Great Wall of Steel: China's Strategy to Secure Central and South Asia. His byline appears in the Washington Post, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, BBC, CNN, New York Times, Atlantic, and TIME.

Publications (10)

World leaders at the 2025 China Victory Day Parade in Beijing
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Fault Lines: Exploring Mistrust and Distrust Between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea

Bradley Jardine , Edward Lemon

The leaders of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea were seen together in public for the first time in September 2025, but beneath the veneer of solidarity lie...

Mapping Islamic Civil Society in the Kyrgyz Republic
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Mapping Islamic Civil Society in the Kyrgyz Republic

Edward Lemon , Ikbol Isakov , Bradley Jardine

Islamic civil society organizations in Kyrgyzstan—including mosques, NGOs, foundations, and madrassas—are expanding their social role as state services decline...

Chinese Academia Marches West: A Structural Topic Model of China’s Knowledge-Production in Central Asian Studies
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Chinese Academia Marches West: A Structural Topic Model of China’s Knowledge-Production in Central Asian Studies

Anastasia Zhu , Bradley Jardine , Frank Maracchione

This report analyzes Chinese academic research on Central Asia using topic modeling to reveal how Chinese scholars have framed knowledge about the region since...

Book: Great Wall of Steel: China’s Global Campaign to Suppress the Uyghurs
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Book: Great Wall of Steel: China’s Global Campaign to Suppress the Uyghurs

Bradley Jardine

China has conducted a systematic campaign of transnational repression targeting Uyghurs across 44 countries since 1997, resulting in over 1,500 documented...

Beyond Silence: Collaboration Between Arab States and China in the Transnational Repression of Uyghurs
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Beyond Silence: Collaboration Between Arab States and China in the Transnational Repression of Uyghurs

Bradley Jardine , Lucille Greer

China has systematically worked with Arab governments to detain and deport Uyghurs since 2001, with at least 292 cases documented across six countries...

“Your Family Will Suffer”: How China is Hacking, Surveilling, and Intimidating Uyghurs in Liberal Democracies
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“Your Family Will Suffer”: How China is Hacking, Surveilling, and Intimidating Uyghurs in Liberal Democracies

Natalie Hall , Bradley Jardine

Chinese government campaigns of surveillance, hacking, and intimidation targeting Uyghurs across 22 countries since 2002 have created pervasive fear in...

“Nets Cast from the Earth to the Sky:” China’s Hunt for Pakistan’s Uyghurs
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“Nets Cast from the Earth to the Sky:” China’s Hunt for Pakistan’s Uyghurs

Bradley Jardine , Robert Evans

China has systematically pursued Uyghurs living in Pakistan and Afghanistan since the late 1990s through detention, deportation, and transnational repression...

Новые формы исламского гражданского общества в Центральной Азии
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Новые формы исламского гражданского общества в Центральной Азии

Edward Lemon , Bradley Jardine , Samuel Doveri Vesterbye

Прочитайте отчет здесь . "Общество Оксус" и "Европейский Совет добрососедства" собрали группу экспертов, представителей гражданского общества и представителей...

Emerging Forms of Pax Sinica in Tajikistan and Cambodia
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Emerging Forms of Pax Sinica in Tajikistan and Cambodia

Bradley Jardine

This piece is a collaboration between the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. In recent years, Tajikistan has...

Understanding Disorder in Central Asia
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Understanding Disorder in Central Asia

Roudabeh Kishi , Edward Lemon , Asena Karacalti , Bradley Jardine

Central Asia's five countries face escalating political instability marked by authoritarianism, corruption-driven economic decline, and rising public unrest...