Cass

Cass

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is a Chinese state research institute and think tank based in the People's Republic of China. CASS is under the auspices of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. CASS houses the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which later became the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.The Institute of Taiwan Studies (ITS) at CASS is under the control of the Fifteen Bureau of the Ministry of State Security. The ITS has been headed by Zhu Weidong since 2023 after its previous head, Yang Mingjie, left to lead the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.According to Chen Daoyin, a former professor at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, CASS "is not so much an academic institution but a body to formulate party ideology to support the leadership."

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