Yanmei Xie is China Policy Analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, a financial research and consulting firm. She focuses on China's politics, political economy and foreign policy. Previously, she was International Crisis Group’s Senior China Analyst, and worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., for C-SPAN, the Capitol News Connection, Fox News, and the McGraw Hill Co. Before moving to the United States, Xie was an international news producer at China Central Television.
Last Updated: February 28, 2018
Conversation
02.25.18
Xi Won’t Go
In a surprise Sunday move, Beijing announced that the Communist Party leadership wants to abolish the two-term limit for China’s president and vice president, potentially paving the way for China’s 64-year-old President Xi Jinping to stay in power...
Viewpoint
07.07.16
The South China Sea Needs ASEAN More Than Ever
A ruling from The Hague next week on maritime disputes in the South China Sea is likely to exacerbate frictions between China and the U.S. Both would be better off respecting the central role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)...
Viewpoint
01.08.16
The Storm Beneath the Calm: China’s Regional Relations in 2016
On the surface, 2015 came to a close in a moment of relative tranquility after a turbulent year for China’s neighborhood. But the calm is misleading: the optics of regional diplomacy have become increasingly detached from the reality of the...
Conversation
09.22.15
Xi Jinping’s Message to America
China’s President Xi Jinping addressed an audience of more than 700 American businesspeople in Seattle on Tuesday evening on the first stop on his first state visit to the United States. Regular ChinaFile Contributors who watched the speech offer...
Two Way Street
09.21.15
New Chinese Book Says the U.S.-China ‘Feast on Power’ is Winding Down
from Two Way Street
At a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and China, it comes as little surprise that a new and important book on the bilateral relations, published by a think tank affiliated with the Chinese Foreign Ministry, should have the foreboding...
Conversation
05.29.15
Did the Game Just Change in the South China Sea? (And What Should the U.S. Do About It?)
As the 14th annual Asia Security Summit—or the Shangri-La Dialogue, as it has come to be known—gets underway in Singapore, we asked contributors to comment on what appears to be a recent escalation in tensions between the U.S. and China over the two...