Xi and Obama Should Make a BIT Breakthrough

By Hu Shuli

President Xi Jinping has begun his first state visit to the United States to meet U.S. President Barack Obama in what state councilor and former foreign minister Yang Jiechi has called “a pivotal meeting at a critical time.”

Xi arrived in the United States amid tensions between Beijing and Washington over cybersecurity and South China Sea disputes. The meeting between the leaders of the two most important trading partners in the world comes as market volatility in China spills into global markets and reforms to the yuan exchange rate send ripples around the world.

Vincent Zhu

Vincent Mingqi Zhu is currently a M.A candidate studying International Relations and Conflict Management at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is a former reporter for Phoenix TV Hong Kong.

Weak Case for UK’s China-Funded Nuclear Plant, Critics Say

New Plant Moving Ahead Despite Bloated Costs and Unproven Technology

The U.K. and China moved closer this week to finalizing the finance of a highly controversial plan to build the first new nuclear power plant in the U.K. for a generation. The plant, Hinkley Point C in Somerset, western England, is seeking Chinese finance for a French design that has never been successfully built.

Bonnie S. Glaser

Bonnie S. Glaser is Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously Senior Adviser for Asia and the Director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Glaser is concomitantly a Nonresident Fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a Senior Associate with the Pacific Forum. For more than three decades, she has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. From 2008 to mid-2015, she was a Senior Adviser with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, and from 2003 to 2008, she was a Senior Associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State.

Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals, including the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, International Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia, American Foreign Policy Interests, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, as well as in leading newspapers such as The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune and in various edited volumes on Asian security. She is also a senior advisor at Beacon Global Strategies.

She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She served as a member of the Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board China Panel in 1997. Glaser received her B.A. in Political Science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in International Economics and Chinese Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.