AnalysisChina and the United States: Who Holds the Stronger Ha… KS Liu • 09/14/2026As President Donald Trump prepares to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington on Sept. 24, one central…
InterviewsWhat Really Made China Rich w/ Yasheng Huang Alice Liu • 09/07/2026How did China emerge from the wretched poverty of the Mao era to build such a vibrant economy…
InterviewsWho Holds Up Half the Sky? w/ Tani Barlow Alice Liu • 08/28/2026The Carter Center is honored to feature an interview with Dr. Tani Barlow, a foundational scholar in the…
InterviewsChina’s Ripple Effect w/ Enze Han Alice Liu • 08/27/2026How should China’s relationship with Southeast Asia be characterized? It is, surely, a paradoxical one. Chinese netizens, fueled…
InterviewsGeostrategic Globalization w/ Steve Rolf Vimi Wang • 08/14/2026The U.S.-China rivalry is often narrated through the language of tariffs, sanctions, and export controls—discrete policy tools deployed…
InterviewsChina’s Still a Union Shop w/ Immanuel Ness Emma Brignall • 08/07/2026China’s trade unions are higher performing than most in the world. Unions have secured better wages, conditions, and…
InterviewsWho Gets to Explain Development? Vimi Wang • 08/05/2026China’s economic trajectory has become one of the most contested subjects in contemporary policy debate. Yet discussions of…
InterviewsGreat Powers, Small States w/ Joseph Liow Alice Liu • 07/30/2026In 2024, a video clip of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifying before Congress went viral on social…
InterviewsTo the Moon and Back w/ Carla Freeman Emma Brignall • 07/22/2026China has increased its presence in developing countries in the Global South in recent years, offering development institutions…
InterviewsThe Idea of China w/ Guoqi Xu Emma Brignall • 07/22/2026The meaning of China has changed across thousands of years of history. Governments, territories, and philosophies have shaped…
InterviewsEcological Demolition w/ Jia-Ching Chen Vimi Wang • 07/22/2026China has become the world’s undisputed leader in green technology, producing more solar panels, wind turbines, and electric…
InterviewsThe Forces Framing Taiwan’s Future w/ Ryan Hass Emma Brignall • 07/13/2026Taiwan’s predicament is constantly shifting. Since the Trump-Xi summit, questions have surfaced around whether the U.S. will resume…
InterviewsThe New North Korea w/ Oriana Skylar Mastro Emma Brignall • 07/07/2026Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine War, North Korea has experienced an economic miracle. It has profited greatly…
InterviewsThe Real Challenge of AI w/ Paul Triolo Emma Brignall • 07/07/2026When AI is interposed in U.S.-China relations, the discussion turns to rivalry, surveillance, and a race we are…
AnalysisThe Real Opportunity of the New Détente with China Aaron Glasserman, Mitch Presnick • 06/26/2026In the aftermath of last month’s summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, China-watchers and policymakers across the…
InterviewsOpening U.S.-PRC Relations, 54 years later w/ Amb. Cha… Emma Brignall • 06/26/2026Today, rivalry colors all aspects of U.S.-China relations. Yet this relationship was built on hopes of collaboration and…
InterviewsThe Missing Variable w/ Dylan Loh Vimi Wang • 06/25/2026China’s rise has become one of the defining phenomena in the study of international relations. Yet, scholarly and…
InterviewsFrom the Tiananmen Square to the State Department w/ J… Emma Brignall • 06/20/2026Following the recent Trump-Xi Summit, many questions have been raised about the future of diplomatic relations between the…
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…
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…
InterviewsFear, Competition, and U.S.-China Relations w/ Zhengyu… Juan Zhang • 05/08/2026Is China truly an existential threat to the United States? Are tariffs and technological restrictions making America stronger—or…
InterviewsGlobalization and Its Discontents Revisited w/ Branko… Alice Liu • 04/09/2026Over the past few decades, as Professor Milanović argues, the rise of Asia constitutes the second largest reshuffling…
InterviewsMaking Made in China w/ Elizabeth Ingleson Isobel Li, Tyler Quillen • 03/27/2026The “Made in China” label is ubiquitous in American consumer products. From textiles to technologies, the U.S. has…
InterviewsU.S.-Iran Conflict Disrupts U.S.-China Agenda Juan Zhang • 03/23/2026The U.S.-Iran war is reshaping both the timing of President Donald Trump’s planned visit to China and the…
InterviewsSelective Hegemony in the Trump 2.0 Era w/ Diao Daming Juan Zhang • 03/23/2026In 2026, as Donald Trump’s second term unfolds, the global geopolitical landscape is undergoing profound changes. From Venezuela…
China Pulse, Fall & Winter 2025, ResearchChinese Public Expects to be Treated as Equals in Trad… Nick Zeller, Renard Sexton, Yawei Liu • 03/09/2026China Pulse is a twice-annual survey research project measuring Chinese public opinion on international relations conducted by The…
China Pulse, Fall & Winter 2025, ResearchThreat and Opportunity: Chinese Public Views on the Un… Nick Zeller, Renard Sexton, Yawei Liu • 03/09/2026China Pulse is a twice-annual survey research project measuring Chinese public opinion on international relations conducted by The…
AnalysisWomen and Resistance in China Leta Hong Fincher • 02/25/2026The following is the text of remarks given by Leta Hong Fincher (Research Associate, Weatherhead East Asia Institute…
AnalysisUnder Pressure: Attitudes Towards China Among American… Michael Cerny • 12/13/2024The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the spring of 2023, when Congress established the House…
AnalysisHu Xijin: Trump’s Policy is the Driving Force of De-Do… Juan Zhang • 12/05/2024$10 one of our contractors had in her car. Photo by Nick Zeller. De-dollarization has become the center…
AnalysisU.S.-China Educational Exchange under a Second Trump A… Juan Zhang • 11/25/2024China is no longer the top source of international students in the United States. India has surpassed China…
