Zhao Hai is a research fellow at the National Strategy Institute of Tsinghua University. His research focuses on U.S.-China relations, China’s civil-military integration, economic relations in the Asia-Pacific, and counterterrorism in Western China and Southeast Asia. He graduated from Peking University with a Master’s degree in Asia-Pacific regional studies. He received his Ph.D. in international history from the University of Chicago.
The election of Donald Trump may prove a disaster for the climate and especially for climate change negotiations if he sticks to the threats made during his campaign. But it may provide the developing world—especially China—with an opportunity to take on the role of leader in the fight against climate change.
On the morning of Election Day, I joined He Haibo, a legal scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, as he spent several hours observing a polling station in the upscale Graham and Parks public elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “If I were a voter, I would vote for her just for this,” He said, pointing at Massachusetts State Representative Marjorie C. Decker, who was running unopposed for reelection, aiding a very old woman walk up the stairs.
The U.S. election is over, and Donald Trump’s pundit-defying victory over Hillary Clinton has stunned and surprised people all over the world. In China—where activity on Weibo and WeChat indicated strong support for Trump among netizens both in China and in the U.S.—are elites and the Communist Party leadership happy with the outcome?
China’s online-retail giant once again broke its sales record on the shopping day it helped create
Trump's election is likely to end the U.S. leadership role in the fight against global warming, and may lead to the emergence of an unlikely champion: China.
Keeping a surname is not an expression of marital equality, but of powerful patriarchal values. A married woman continued to be identified by her father’s lineage.
President-elect’s pledges but lack of policy during campaign keeps experts guessing
Between August and December, China is holding staggered local elections all across the country – an exercise in “grass-roots democracy” on a daunting scale
President Trump would be well advised to steer away from the rhetoric of Candidate Trump in dealing with the world’s second biggest economy
