REPORT: Finding Firmer Ground: Cold War Case Studies and Chinese Perspectives
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by Miranda Wilson
2d ago
The Carter Center China Focus is pleased to announce the publication of its fifth issue of the Finding Firmer Ground report series. This latest issue, titled “Finding Firmer Ground: Cold War Case Studies and Chinese Perspectives,” details how a nuclear war between the U.S. and China can be avoided, utilizing the Cold War analogy as a starting point. The authors draw on these Cold War case studies and as well as Chinese perspectives on CBMs to inform policy recommendations for the modern Sino-U.S. nuclear relationship.  To download a full copy of the report please click  ..read more
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Interview With Minxin Pei: How Should China Prepare for a Second Trump Presidency?
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by Juan Zhang
1w ago
Editor’s note: The U.S.-China Perception Monitor recently sat down with Professor Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College to discuss a host of important issues in U.S.-China relations, including TikTok, China’s economy, and the prospect of a second Trump Presidency. Professor Pei is a frequent commentator on Bloomberg News. His research focuses on governance in China, U.S.–East Asia relations, as well as democratization in developing nations. His latest book is The Sentinel State Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China. China recently coined a new term referring to its econ ..read more
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Interview with James Steinberg: The Significance of Strategic Reassurance for U.S.-China Relations
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by Bikai Chen
1M ago
James Steinberg served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. During this time, he proposed the concept of “strategic reassurance” to deal with the US-China relations. He also served as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Clinton from 1996 to 2000. Now, he is the dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). In this interview, James Steinberg talked about the background of proposing the “strategic reassurance” and its significance for US-China relations, the expectations of US policymakers for US ..read more
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Taking Down “Made-in-China” Cranes Cannot Address U.S. Weakness in The Shipping Industry
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by Miranda Wilson
1M ago
Just a little more than a year since the notorious “Chinese balloon incident,” a congressional probe of Chinese-built cargo cranes revealed the shocking finding last week that there was communications equipment emplaced within the cranes that did not appear to support normal operations. The Chinese company that produced the cranes, the Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC), denied the findings and called the probe “misleading.” The question of whether Beijing is actually spying on Americans via various day-to-day equipment and products is already taken to be a fact within the Beltway, whe ..read more
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Interview with Yasheng Huang: Why is Chinese Society so Stable?
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by Juan Zhang
1M ago
Editor’s note: Looking back over thousands of years of history, why has the Chinese state been so stable? Yasheng Huang, the Epoch Foundation Professorship of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center, explored this central conundrum that has puzzled him for a long time in his new book: The Rise and Fall of the EAST. Through his research, Huang found out that the stability of Chinese society is a product of history. He pointed out that the imperial examinations or Keju (科举) system and its subsequent impact on modern society have ..read more
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Reflections on “Can India Overtake China?”
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by Miranda Wilson
1M ago
Editor’s note: The U.S.-China Perception Monitor recently interviewed Professor Yasheng Huang of MIT, a fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center, on his new book The Rise and Fall of the EAST. In that interview, we asked: You have done a lot of comparative research on China and India, including coauthoring an article called “Can India Overtake China” more than 20 years ago. Looking at where China and India are today in the 3rd decade of the 21st century, do you still think India will eventually surpass China economically? If yes, why? Professor Huang responded to the question through this essay. T ..read more
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Interview with Andrew Mertha: The Past, Present and Future of the U.S.-China Relations
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by Bikai Chen
1M ago
Andrew Mertha is the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Director of the China Studies Program, and Director of the SAIS China Global Research Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). From 2019 to 2021, Professor Mertha served as the Vice Dean at SAIS. He is a leading scholar in the study of U.S.-China relations in the United States. In this interview, Professor Mertha discusses the role of Chinese and U.S. leaders in navigating the relationship between the two countries, the interaction of U.S.-China relations with domestic polit ..read more
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An Interview with Logan Wright: What Challenges is the Chinese Economy Facing?
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by Juan Zhang
2M ago
As the Year of the Dragon begins, the critical question for China is: Will it be able to successfully revive its economy? China’s economy has not performed the way many analysts expected since the pandemic. Will the country fall into the notorious middle-income trap? Will China face a structural or cyclical issue? Will China’s economic miracle end? The U.S.-China Perception Monitor recently facilitated an email interview on China’s economy with Logan Wright, a long-time China expert who lived in the country for over two decades. Logan Wright is a Partner at Rhodium Group and leads the fir ..read more
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An Interview with David M. Lampton: Living U.S.-China Relations
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by Bikai Chen
2M ago
David M. Lampton is Professor Emeritus and former Hyman Professor and Director of SAIS-China and China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Sr. Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute. Dr. Lampton was formerly President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and he is the author of many books including his most recently published Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. Below, you will find the transcript from the U.S.-China Perception Monitor’s interview with Dr. Lampton about his new book. Dr. Lampton also sh ..read more
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Living U.S.-China Relations: Anecdotes From David M. Lampton
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by Yingyi Tan
2M ago
The U.S.-China Perception Monitor interviewed Dr. David M. Lampton on his new book Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War, you can find the original transcript here. In the interview, we asked him to share a few anecdotes with us from his life-long dedication to fostering a cooperative U.S.-China relationship. We asked him to share stories that stand out to him as influential moments both in U.S.-China relations and his own life. You may read the three vignettes he shared with us below. Analysts often hesitate to use anecdotes because they seem so specific to the individu ..read more
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