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Damocles’s Switchboard w/ Meicen Sun

AI, Data, and the Self-Own of the Great Firewall

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The Blood and Muscle: The Americans Who Built U.S.-China Relations w/ Terry Lautz

From missionaries to dairy farmers, Terry Lautz talks about some of the most important, yet overlooked, Americans who helped build U.S.-China relations.

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Using the Pipa to Bridge Two Cultures: An Interview with Wu Man

The musical virtuoso on her career in the shared language of music.

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Integrating China into Global Sustainable Development: An Interview with Huang Hongxiang

Huang Hongxiang is the founder of China House, a researcher specializing in “China and the Global South,” and a freelance investigative journalist. As a dedicated wildlife conservationist, he risked his safety as an undercover investigator, posing as an ivory buyer to expose illegal ivory trade in Africa—a story featured in the Oscar-shortlisted Netflix documentary The […]

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A Progressive China Policy: An Interview with Jake Werner Part 2

Read the second part of The Monitor's interview with Dr. Jake Werner of the Quincy Institute.

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A Progressive China Policy: An Interview with Jake Werner Part 1

Read The Monitor's interview with Jake Werner about the possibility of a progressive China policy.

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China’s Decision to Halt International Adoption: An Interview with Yanzhong Huang

Read The Monitor's interview about China's international adoption ban with CFR's Yanzhong Huang.

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The Growing Bond Between China and Central Asia: An Interview with Abbos Bobokhonov, Part 2

Read The Monitor's interview with Dr. Abbos Bobokhonov, a Fulbright visiting scholar at GSU and expert on China-Central Asia relations.

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The Growing Bond Between China and Central Asia: An Interview with Abbos Bobokhonov, Part 1

Read The Monitor's interview with Dr. Abbos Bobokhonov, a Fulbright visiting scholar at GSU and expert on China-Central Asia relations.

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An Interview with John Givens: Responding to “Is Asia the Powder Keg for World War III?”

Read our interview with Dr. John Givens, a professor of International Relations at Spelman College.

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What Keeps Xi Jinping Up at Night? An Interview with Dennis Unkovic

Read The Monitor's interview with Dennis Unkovic about his new book The Fragility of China.

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China Vérité: Ying Qian on Documentary Cinema, Part 1

Ying Qian, associate professor at Columbia University, discusses documentary film theory and its history in China

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History, Gender, and Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Film: An Interview with Cui Zhou

A conversation with Dr. Cui Zhou on Chinese film and its relationship with American film, historical representation, gender, and ethnic minorities.

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Stephen Fisher on Global Climate Opinion

Stephen Fisher on the significance of the United Nations Development Program’s Peoples’ Climate Vote Survey.

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An Interview with Ying Zhu: Chinese Filmmaking, Hollywood, and U.S.-China Relations

Kay Zou talks with Ying Zhu, Professor Emerita at the City University of New York and Founder and Chief Editor of Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images about the history of Sino-Hollywood relations.

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An Interview with Dr. Renard Sexton: China’s Relations with Taiwan, Afghanistan, the Philippines, and the U.S.

Miranda Wilson speaks with Renard Sexton, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Emory University, about cross-strait relations, Beijing’s interests in Afghanistan, and the new posture of the Philippine government in U.S.-China relations.

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An Interview with Carla Freeman: U.S. and NATO Positions in Asia

Bikai Chen talks to United States Institute of Peace Senior Fellow on China Carla Freeman about U.S. positions throughout Asia, including the impacts of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and NATO’s relations in the Indo-Pacific.

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An Interview with Michael Szonyi: Ming Dynasty, The Art of Being Governed, and U.S.-China Relations

Michael A. Szonyi, Frank Wen-xiung Wu Professor of Chinese history in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, is a scholar of late imperial Chinese history. He specializes in using historical anthropology and fieldwork to study the social history of China's southeastern coast. After researching the history of the military households of the Ming dynasty, he published The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China.

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An Interview with Dr. Chen Jian: Zhou Enlai: A Life

Read the U.S.-China Perception Monitor's interview with Dr. Jian Chen discussing his new biography of Zhou Enlai.

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An Interview with Rachel Myrick: The Impact of Partisan Politics on U.S. Foreign Policy

Read the U.S.-China Perception Monitor's interview with Dr. Rachel Myrick.

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An Interview with Dr. Angel Hsu: Climate Change & U.S.-China Relations

Read about the April China Town Hall hosted by The Carter Center and National Committee on U.S.-China Relations as well as our interview with Dr. Angel Hsu of UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Interview with Donald Clarke: TikTok, the Chinese Legal System, and Suggestions for the U.S.

Interested in the TikTok dispute? Read the U.S.-China Perception Monitor's interview with Donald Clarke.

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