An Gang, Adjunct Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University
Jul 19, 2019
The open letter signed by US experts and scholars gives a voice to some of the cooler heads in China-US relations. But closer reading indicates that a serious and powerful challenge to Trump’s fundamental China strategy is still lacking in the US.
Yang Wenjing, Research Professor, Institute of American Studies, CICIR
Jul 17, 2019
The US’s attempts to use Xinjiang as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations is a poor strategic move. Given President Trump’s checkered human rights history, the US will face difficulty in trying to rally international support around the Xinjiang issue.
Zhang Yun, Professor, School of International Relations, Nanjing University
Jul 05, 2019
Many observers believe the US has already begun a new cold war via comprehensive containment of China. But in recent decades, US elites have debated back and forth on the positive or negative implications of Chinese power. Today’s tensions are serious, but not unprecedented.
Ma Shikun, Senior Journalist, the People’s Daily
Jun 20, 2019
The US has recently accused Chinese scientists and scholars of stealing technological secrets — but this anxiety is nothing new. Ma Shikun recounts his own experiences and those of other Chinese journalists subjected to suspicion in the US over the past two decades.
Danielle Neighbour, Schwarzman Fellow
Jun 20, 2019
As the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, China has announced a national carbon market and begun piloting regional carbon markets in seven of its largest cities.
Hannah Feldshuh, Analyst
Jun 03, 2019
China’s recent foreign marriage ban represents one of the many legal challenges that foreigners residing in China must face.
Mikaila Smith, J.D. Candidate at the University of Chicago Law School
May 31, 2019
Originally intended to be a fair, meritocratic system, today China’s university entrance exam, the gaokao, contains structural challenges that prevent disadvantaged students from realizing their potential, in China and all over the world.
Vasilis Trigkas, Visiting Assistant Professor, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
May 28, 2019
Nanjing has been the city of the counterfactuals and of alternative histories. Throughout China’s history, Nanjing has stood as a dynastic capital, a capital of the divine rebels, a republican capital, and now the epicenter of China’s semiconductor industry.
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
May 28, 2019
I recently flew to China for an academic conference on some of the geopolitical and security issues dividing Washington and Beijing. I had attended the same event two years before and enjoyed the wide-ranging discussion. The conference was to bring together scholars from throughout Asia and beyond.
Robert I. Rotberg, Founding Director of Program on Intrastate Conflict, Harvard Kennedy School
May 20, 2019
In Africa there is a thriving black market in donkeys destined for China, but this demand has severe consequences for rural transport and small-scale merchandising in villages throughout the continent.