Philippe Le Corre is a senior fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and a Fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, specializing on China’s geoeconomic and geopolitical rise, and Chinese foreign direct investment. He was previously a fellow with the Brookings Institution in Washington. He has worked on China since the late 1980s first as a foreign correspondent for Radio France International, then as a senior adviser to the French government, a consultant and a think-tanker. He is the author of several books on China, including China’s Offensive in Europe published in 2016 by Brookings Press. He has contributed to a large number of publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Le Monde, Les Echos, Nikkei Asian Review, China Perspective and Asia-Europe Journal. He co-authored a recent report with Jonathan Pollack titled China’s Global Rise: can the EU and U.S. pursue a Coordinated Strategy? He has also taught at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., and Sciences Po in Paris.

Last Updated: December 20, 2017
China in the World Podcast
03.24.19
Xi’s Visit to ‘Rival’ Europe
from Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
President Xi Jinping travels to Italy and France this month for his first overseas trip of 2019. His visit comes soon after the European Commission labeled China a “systemic rival” and “economic competitor.” Xi’s objective for both trips is to shore...
Conversation
07.12.18
Can China Replace the U.S. in Europe?
The G7 debacle reminded Europeans the problems with relying on a fraying transatlantic partnership. Meanwhile, China has been playing a larger role on the continent, increasing its investment and its political influence. On July 6-7, Bulgaria held...
Conversation
12.19.17
Trump’s National Security Strategy and China
On December 18, U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced the United States’ new national security strategy. He called China a “strategic competitor,” and, along with Russia, called it a “revisionist power.” Those two nations, Trump said, are...
Conversation
06.01.17
Can China Supplant the U.S. in Europe?
From May 31 to June 2, Premier Li Keqiang will visit Germany and Belgium, to “further deepen and enrich China’s relations with the European Union (EU) at a time of increasing global uncertainty,” according to an article in China’s state newswire...