Aside from the nationalistic debates, are there any good ideas for AI governance and regulation emerging from the noise? What are the positive developments, if any, in China and in the U.S. when it comes to giving citizens the tools to help shape the...
Published March 6, 2026
Updated: March 5, 2026
Japan-China relations are in a deep freeze that began in November when Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that Japan could intervene militarily in the event of a Taiwan crisis. Beijing responded furiously, invoking World War II, banning exports of...
Published January 9, 2026
Updated: January 8, 2026
On January 3, the U.S. military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a nighttime raid on Caracas and flew him to New York to face drug trafficking charges. Trump announced the U.S. would temporarily “run” Venezuela until a...
Published October 10, 2025
Updated: November 3, 2025
Jerome Alan Cohen (July 1, 1930 – September 22, 2025) was a renowned American lawyer who was one of the foremost foreign scholars of Chinese law. After the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and the U.S. he became the first American lawyer...
Published September 30, 2025
Updated: September 29, 2025
American and Chinese officials announced on September 15 that they had reached a “framework agreement” on the future of TikTok. On September 25, Trump signed an executive order approving the framework agreement for the TikTok deal, although Chinese...
Published September 6, 2025
Updated: September 5, 2025
From August 31 to September 1, China hosted twenty foreign leaders in Tianjin for a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, the biggest meeting since the formation of the security group in 2002. Group photos of all the attendees and video and...
Published August 19, 2025
Updated: August 18, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump came into office with tough talk on China, including promises to enact huge tariffs on China and erect a new trade regime, “aggressive new restrictions” on Chinese ownership of American land, an end to fentanyl trafficking,...
Published July 31, 2025
Updated: July 31, 2025
A European Union-China Summit took place in Beijing on July 24, 2025, marking the 50th anniversary of EU-China diplomatic relations. European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Chinese...
Published July 5, 2025
Updated: July 5, 2025
How might the battle over succession play out over the coming months? If the Dalai Lama announces a successor, how will Beijing respond? How robust is the institutional framework for maintaining legitimacy without the Chinese government’s recognition,...
Published June 16, 2025
Updated: June 12, 2025
Both private sector players and the Chinese government are investing huge amounts of money and throwing top-tier engineering talent at areas such as quantum computing, biotech and health sciences, AI, cryptography, materials science, flying cars,...
Published May 12, 2025
Updated: May 9, 2025
Over the past few years, European countries have started to line up with the United States on China policy. But now, as Donald Trump destroys the trust European countries had in America, China is stepping up, promising stability and consistency, if...
Published April 8, 2025
Updated: April 10, 2025
When it comes to China, there are several different factions pushing the Trump Administration in different directions: MAGA nationalists who favor economic, cultural, and possibly military warfare against China; more old-fashioned Republicans who simply...
Published January 23, 2025
Updated: January 23, 2025
In early December, U.S. law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison announced plans to close its office in Beijing. In 1981, Paul Weiss became one of the earliest foreign law firms to open an office in Beijing, but it is one of the...
Published November 4, 2024
Updated: November 5, 2024
After months of downbeat economic news and little action from the Chinese government, Beijing has announced a slew of stimulus measures. Are the stimulus measures enough to make a difference and are they going to work as long as secular trends like...
Published October 4, 2024
Updated: October 1, 2024
Will TikTok succeed in defending itself on First Amendment grounds, or will it be forced to shut down in the U.S.? Or will ByteDance find a creative way out of the problem? What will this case mean for Chinese business interests in the U.S. and the...
Published August 19, 2024
Updated: August 19, 2024
What does Beijing expect to gain from the intra-Palestinian peace talks? What considerations shape China’s position on the Israel-Gaza conflict, and on the wider geopolitical picture of the Middle East? How does China’s support for Iran factor into its...
Published August 6, 2024
Updated: August 6, 2024
Melamine-tainted milk, rat meat sold as lamb, recycled cooking oil sourced from restaurant waste or even sewers, rice containing poisonous heavy metals: food safety scandals were extraordinarily frequent in China in the first 15 years of the 21st century...
Published May 28, 2024
Updated: May 28, 2024
On May 16 and 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a state visit to China, where he met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Xi has stood closely by Putin’s side since their announcement of the “no limits” partnership, and this does not look likely to...
Published March 15, 2024
Updated: March 15, 2024
On March 13, in a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that could result in TikTok’s being unable to do business in the U.S. What does the rapid passage of the bill in the House say about the state of...
Published February 16, 2024
Updated: February 16, 2024
Some observers have been predicting an economic collapse in China for decades. Others have long predicted that China would be stuck in a middle-income trap or some other type of economic stagnation. Might some of these predictions come true this time?...