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10/09/2025

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Interview with Zhao Tong on the US-China Perception Gap

Tyler Quillen Tyler Quillen 10/08/2025

The Monitor spoke with Dr. Tong Zhao to shed some light on the factors at play in this shifting relationship as well as what may come next.

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Stability Without Improvement: Professor Da Wei on the Risky Equilibrium of US-China Relations

Da Wei Da Wei 10/05/2025

While China-U.S. relations have not visibly deteriorated in the short term, both sides lack strong incentives to improve ties

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The Unbearable Busyness of Hummingbirds with Xiang Biao

Alice Liu Alice Liu 10/05/2025

So there is a shift from labor migration, where people travel overseas to earn money, to reproduction migration, where migration itself becomes a form of consumption.

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Wu Xinbo: China’s Strength——The Key to U.S. De-escalation

Wu Xinbo Wu Xinbo 09/25/2025

When Trump says he does not want conflict with China, I believe he means it. As a businessman, a clash with a major military power like China simply doesn’t add up.

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An Interview with Graham Allison on a Trump-Xi Deal

Miranda Wilson Miranda Wilson 09/04/2025

Recently, Allison has been a rare hopeful voice that Washington and Beijing can find a way to live together and that conflict is not inevitable.

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An Interview with Eli Friedman on Transnational Solidarity and Left Internationalism

Diego Ge Diego Ge 08/27/2025

The history of USAID is complicated and problematic—both for Americans and for people around the world—because the agency is often tied directly to U.S. imperialism.

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Engagement is Not Dead w/ Terry Lautz and Deborah Davis

Miranda Wilson Miranda Wilson 08/23/2025

People-to-people connections are a defining part of U.S.-China relations, and the people highlighted in this book highlight the shared values, friendships, and cooperation that are possible between our two nations.

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The History of the Thai-Chinese and the Chinese-Thai w/ Sittithep Eaksittipong

Henry O'Connor Henry O'Connor 08/15/2025

In the same way that China tries to promote Chinese culture, the Thai state promotes Thainess, language, and culture abroad as well.

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Assessing Peaceful Unification w/ Xin Qiang

Edison Chen Edison Chen 08/12/2025

People-to-people cultural exchanges between the two sides across the strait will facilitate and promote cooperation and exchange between the two sides.

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China In The World, Three Years Later w/ Ban Wang

Grace Osborn Grace Osborn 08/09/2025

The power of spirit is part of the revolutionary discourse of voluntarism. It is the ardent belief that subjective factors constitute a military capability and power and could propel the fighting army to victory.

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Democracy in Blue Jeans w/ Larry Diamond

Diego Ge Diego Ge 08/04/2025

I don’t believe we should change our policy of strategic ambiguity. Declaring a formal commitment to defend Taiwan would be destabilizing.

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Taiwan After Trump w/ Amanda Hsiao

Diego Ge Diego Ge 07/29/2025

Tensions are rising, but the risk of an invasion seems low

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The Only Chinese Bookstore in D.C. w/ Yu Miao

Diego Ge Diego Ge 07/29/2025

Forced out of Shanghai, JF Books builds a new community of readers in America

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Talking It Out w/ Ryan Hass

Edison Chen Edison Chen 07/29/2025

Obama's NSC China expert makes the case for negotiations

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A Mighty Voice w/ Vivian Wu

Diego Ge Diego Ge 07/29/2025

Former BBC Hong Kong Bureau Chief and CEO of Dasheng Media discusses press freedom and the complexities of the Chinese diaspora

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Throttling the Nationalist Spirit w/ Frances Yaping Wang

Juan Zhang Juan Zhang 07/08/2025

On China's media strategy

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An Interview with Jacob Dreyer: A Shanghai-Based American Writer on China

Juan Zhang Juan Zhang 07/08/2025

Author of the New York Times opinion piece, "Trump's America Is Beginning to Look More Like China."

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After Engagement w/ Orville Schell

Edison Chen Edison Chen 07/01/2025

The Asia Society's Director of the Center for U.S.-China Relations touches almost every thorn in the rivalry

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Trump’s Bad for Business Big & Small w/ Arthur Dong

Edison Chen Edison Chen 06/24/2025

Georgetown professor on U.S.-China investing and how tariffs will hit small American businesses

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Three-Finger Salute to Autocracy w/ Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Diego Ge Diego Ge 06/24/2025

What can we learn from a decade of protest in Asia?

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The Future of People-to-People w/ David Moser

Wei Wei Chen Wei Wei Chen 05/27/2025

Facilitating U.S.-China academic exchange and people-to-people connections

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Africa and the U.S.-China Rivalry w/ Maria Repnikova

Kelly Zhuang Kelly Zhuang 05/27/2025

Digitial diplomacy, Confucius Institutes, & The Belt and Road Initiative

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A Temporary Truce and the Long Road Ahead w/ USCBC’s Sean Stein

Juan Zhang Juan Zhang 05/27/2025

On April 29, at the height of escalating tensions in the U.S.-China trade war, the U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) released its latest 2025 US Exports to China Report. The report warned that if the “U.S.-China Trade War 2.0” continues to intensify, it will severely impact American exporters and inflict greater losses on U.S. businesses, farmers, […]

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Chinese Thirdspace & A Third Political Route w/ Jianmei Liu

Miranda Wilson Miranda Wilson 05/20/2025

Read The Monitor's interview with Jianmei Liu about her newest book titled "Chinese Thirdspace: The Paradox of Moderate Politics."

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In The Dragon’s Shadow w/ Sebastian Strangio

Henry O'Connor Henry O'Connor 04/29/2025

China's Evolving Relationship with Southeast Asia

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