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Elisa Zhai Autry is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She contributes to Hoover’s Human Security Project, which pursues research into how authoritarian regimes sustain power and how those systems can be challenged to advance liberty. Dr. Autry served as principal policy adviser on Global China and East Asia and Pacific Affairs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.
