InterviewsMake China Great Again w/ Rongbin Han Alice Liu • 06/04/2026The era of globalization that followed the Cold War greatly transformed China. Yet many Western democracies witnessed backlash…
InterviewsHalf-Vicious w/ Jennifer Lind Isobel Li • 06/04/2026Smart authoritarians adapted… They became, as Aristotle advised autocrats, ‘not vicious but half-vicious.’ — Autocracy 2.0: How China’s…
AnalysisAfter Beijing, the Real Deal is Restraint Taiyi Sun • 06/02/2026President Trump’s Beijing visit was neither the grand reset advertised by its most enthusiastic supporters nor the empty…
AnalysisThe Hardest Part of “Reunifying Taiwan by Force” May N… KS Liu • 05/28/2026As debate grows in China over the possibility of using force against Taiwan, one argument is gaining increasing…
InterviewsAn Octopus with Many Tentacles w/ Lynette Ong Isobel Li • 05/22/2026China’s ambitious state-led urbanization accelerated in the early 2010s, annually increasing urban construction by 1.2 million acres— double…
InterviewsRethinking the Carter Era w/ Peng Sheng Juan Zhang • 05/19/2026How should we understand the transformation of U.S.-China relations from the Cold War era to today’s technological rivalry?…
AnalysisImproving U.S.-China Relations Xudong Zhu • 05/18/2026On February 21, 1972, at the welcoming banquet during his visit to China, President Richard Nixon quoted Mao…
InterviewsU.S.-China Educational Decoupling w/ Rosie Levine Alice Liu • 05/18/2026As the US-China Education Trust’s March report America’s China Talent Challenge: Investing in Deeper American Understanding of China…
