AnalysisHas President Trump Got China Right? Yawei Liu • 12/17/2025On the eve of the founding of PRC, Mao Zedong sought support from Washington by inviting Ambassador Leighton…
AnalysisPresident Trump’s Quiet Diplomacy Behind U.S.–China–Ja… Yawei Liu • 12/09/2025On November 7, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stated that a mainland Chinese “attack” on Taiwan would constitute…
AnalysisRemembering Joseph Fewsmith: The Passing of a Generati… Hu Wei • 12/01/2025Source. Earlier this month, while traveling in Thailand, I was stunned to learn of the passing of Professor…
InterviewsExclusive Interview | Lee Jones: The Contemporary Cold… Alice Liu • 11/26/2025The second Trump administration saw the president using tariffs as a tool to reorder global power. Debate over…
AnalysisIn Call With Trump, Xi Says Taiwan Issue Extends Beyon… Juan Zhang • 11/25/2025Source. Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump in a call Monday that Taiwan’s “return to…
China and the World: How Citizens View Their Country… China-Focus-Editor • 11/17/2025What do ordinary Chinese citizens think about their country’s role in the world? For the first time, the…
U.S.-China Relations & Atlanta’s Chinese Diaspora… China-Focus-Editor • 11/17/2025Join former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific Daniel Kritenbrink, Georgia State Representative Dr. Michelle…
AnalysisTrump 2.0 Has Created New Bedfellows Among America’s C… David M. McCourt • 11/06/2025Photo Source: White House It has been almost one year since the second Trump administration took office. Many…
AnalysisXi Jinping and Four U.S. Presidents: Personal Diplomac… Yawei Liu • 10/29/2025Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with US President Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago Resort in Florida, April 6,…
InterviewsInterview With Amb. Daniel Kritenbrink on US-China Rel… Tyler Quillen • 10/29/2025On July 8, 2017, President Xi Jinping met with President Donald Trump after the closing of the G20…
InterviewsAn Interview with Ji Li: Insights on Chinese Multinati… Alice Liu • 10/22/2025“Government Bureau.” 1956. George Tooker. Source In 2018, the case involving Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Meng Wanzhou…
AnalysisWhy the U.S. Can’t Break Free from Its Dependence on C… KS Liu • 10/18/2025 A rare-earth mine in Guilin, China. Source Since China cut off rare earth exports to Japan during the…
InterviewsAn Interview with Yun Sun: The Trade War’s Not T… Tyler Quillen • 10/15/2025The second Trump administration has brought a flurry of changes to the international ecosystem, particularly in the realm…
AnalysisWang Jisi: Has the Cold War Really Ended? Wang Jisi • 10/08/2025Source The Cold War came to an end in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the dramatic…
InterviewsInterview with Zhao Tong on the US-China Perception Ga… Tyler Quillen • 10/08/2025“The Dialogue Between Parents.” 1993. Mao Xuhui. Source. The world’s most important bilateral relationship, that of the United…
InterviewsStability Without Improvement: Professor Da Wei on the… Da Wei • 10/05/2025Source: China-US Focus The 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum was held at the Beijing International Conference Center from September…
InterviewsThe Unbearable Busyness of Hummingbirds with Xiang Bia… Alice Liu • 10/05/2025Kunming, Yunnan, PRC. May 28, 2025. Source Apart from the author of From the Soil, Fei Xiaotong, perhaps…
AnalysisManaging Rivalry: China’s Strategy for Coexistence wit… Li Wei • 10/03/2025Source: Fudan University Over the past three centuries, the global economy has witnessed the rise of three “world…
AnalysisAmerica’s Future: How Beijing is Planning Its Ne… Diao Daming • 09/30/2025Source: White House As one of the founders and long-term leaders of the postwar international order, the United…
InterviewsWu Xinbo: China’s Strength——The Key to U.S. De-e… Wu Xinbo • 09/25/2025On September 14, 2025, representatives from China and the United States held trade talks in Madrid, Spain. Source…
AnalysisWhen China Rules the Rivers Antonina-Luszczykiewicz Mendis • 09/17/2025Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang recently announced the “Project of the Century.” Interestingly, he was not referring to the exploration…
AnalysisChina, India, and the United States in a Multipolar Wo… Yasser Ali Nasser • 09/06/2025Prime Minister Modi with President Xi, August 31, 2025. Source. The Sino-Indian relationship has long been a perplexing…
AnalysisEmpires Age Like Dynamite Nick Zeller • 09/04/2025No empire last forever. Governor-General A.C.D. de Graeff (right) with the Regent Ton That Han (center) and the…
InterviewsAn Interview with Graham Allison on a Trump-Xi Deal Miranda Wilson • 09/04/2025It is hard not to know Graham Allison’s work in the U.S.-China field, but, if you are unfamiliar…
AnalysisNew Chinese Public Opinion Survey Nick Zeller • 09/04/2025The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and The Carter Center have just released the results of our recent…
InterviewsAn Interview with Eli Friedman on Transnational Solida… Diego Ge • 08/27/2025Workers at Foxconn Technology Group, Zhengzhou, Henan province. PRC. 2019. Source. Eli Friedman is a Professor of Global…
InterviewsEngagement is Not Dead w/ Terry Lautz and Deborah Davi… Miranda Wilson • 08/23/2025Source In December of 2024, I had the opportunity to interview Terry Lautz about his book Americans in…
AnalysisU.S. Think Tanks Need Less Confrontational Thinking on… Zhang Jiadong • 08/19/2025Source 【Editor’s note: Professor Zhang Jiadong of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University recently published an…
AnalysisMexico in the Middle: Trump 2.0’s Front Line in the U.… China-Focus-Editor • 08/13/2025Source: White House website [The China Focus at The Carter Center, in cooperation with the China Focus at…
AnalysisWhen Perception is Power: Countering China’s Cou… China-Focus-Editor • 08/13/2025Source: geographical map of sub-Saharan Africa. [The China Focus at The Carter Center, in cooperation with the China…
AnalysisWho’s Afraid of Engagement? Yanqiu Zheng • 08/05/2025(Members of a Chinese table tennis team being interviewed at a television studio at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School,…
InterviewsDemocracy in Blue Jeans w/ Larry Diamond Diego Ge • 08/04/2025Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy…
AnalysisPresident Trump 2.0 has not been an Orthodox China Haw… Suisheng Zhao • 08/01/2025Professor Graham Allison at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government bet during a panel discussion at Davos in…
ResearchBook Talk: Chinese Encounters with America China-Focus-Editor • 08/01/2025Join us for an engaging discussion of Chinese Encounters with America, a compelling book that tells the stories…
AnalysisVision and Pathways for U.S.-China Youth Exchanges in… James B. Heimowitz, Mabel Lu Miao • 06/02/2025Preamble In November 2023, President Xi Jinping announced at the welcome banquet hosted by U.S. friendship groups in…
InterviewsDamocles’s Switchboard w/ Meicen Sun Nick Zeller, Chris Mao • 12/16/2024Antoine Dubost, “The Sword of Damocles,” 1804, Wikimedia Commons Meicen Sun is an assistant professor in the School…
