Conversations with scholars, officials, and observers.
Across the Global South, China has become a significant source of funding for infrastructure and development. From perspectives in Washington, D.C., Chinese-built hydropower dams in Laos or nickel mining operations...
Following the recent Trump-Xi Summit, many questions have been raised about the future of diplomatic relations between the US and the PRC, particularly around Taiwan. From the contentious pending arms…
China’s rapid economic rise has drawn countless Western businesses into its vast market. But that bilateral relationship is now under severe strain. Escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing are threatening...
The era of globalization that followed the Cold War greatly transformed China. Yet many Western democracies witnessed backlash from those who held the view that international trade often came at…
Smart authoritarians adapted… They became, as Aristotle advised autocrats, ‘not vicious but half-vicious.’ — Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny The Carter Center spoke with Jennifer Lind about her…
China’s ambitious state-led urbanization accelerated in the early 2010s, annually increasing urban construction by 1.2 million acres— double the size of Rhode Island’s land mass— from 2010 to 2017. But…
How should we understand the transformation of U.S.-China relations from the Cold War era to today’s technological rivalry? Was the Carter administration’s China policy driven more by geopolitical realism or...
As the US-China Education Trust’s March report America’s China Talent Challenge: Investing in Deeper American Understanding of China shows, “the flow of American students undertaking deep dives into China and…
