David Zweig on the Academic Chill Between the U.S. and China
The social scientist and author discusses the fallout from the Trump administration’s China Initiative and how the U.S. should approach academic links with its strategic...
China Must Rein in Local Governments
The decentralization of decision-making was essential to China’s economic boom in its early years, but further economic reform will require the central government to reassert...
Walz’s China Chops
A look at Tim Walz's China background.
Dmitri Alperovitch on Speeding Up Efforts to Deter China
The geopolitics analyst says Xi Jinping is bent on invading Taiwan and the U.S. needs to unite with its allies to win a new Cold...
Would Trump Escalate the U.S.-China Trade War?
History suggests why the government would forge ahead with a policy agenda that would harm average Americans.
Libel Lawfare
In recent years, several large Chinese companies have filed defamation suits against small organizations or individual researchers, leading to a strange reality: Even as the...
China’s Contradictions Remain Unresolved
The CCP’s latest Third Plenum meeting failed to deliver a coherent economic blueprint for the country.
Victor Shih on the Fallout from the Tech Sector Crackdown
The Chinese politics expert discusses how Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive upset the Party’s equilibrium and signs of splintering within the leader’s ruling faction.
China’s Tech Turnaround
Beijing’s crackdown on the sector, followed by recent huge investments in AI and other areas, are part of a long pattern of shifts in the...
Andreas Fulda on Germany’s Failure to Tackle the China Challenge
The German political scientist talks about the need for a paradigm shift in Germany’s foreign policy and the difficulty of countering hybrid threats.
The Taiwan Debate Is Heading in a Dangerous Direction
Discussions within U.S. policy making circles take too little account of the devastating impact any conflict could have on the global chip industry.
Broken Engagement
Our series of interviews with top U.S. policy makers of the last 30 years has revealed how and why the American approach towards China has...