After Beijing, the Real Deal is Restraint
President Trump’s Beijing visit was neither the grand reset advertised by its most enthusiastic supporters nor the empty pageant dismissed by its critics. It was something more limited but effective:...
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Improving U.S.-China Relations
On February 21, 1972, at the welcoming banquet during his visit to China, President Richard Nixon quoted Mao Zedong’s line, “Ten thousand years is too long; seize the day,” and...
Women and Resistance in China
The following is the text of remarks given by Leta Hong Fincher (Research Associate, Weatherhead East Asia Institute & author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China)...
From the Tiananmen Square to the State Department w/ Jonathan Fritz
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…
Make China Great Again w/ Rongbin Han
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…
Half-Vicious w/ Jennifer Lind
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…
An Octopus with Many Tentacles w/ Lynette Ong
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…
Rethinking the Carter Era w/ Peng Sheng
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...
U.S.-China Educational Decoupling w/ Rosie Levine
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…
Chinese Public Expects to be Treated as Equals in Trade with United States
China Pulse is a twice-annual survey research project measuring Chinese public opinion on international relations conducted by The Carter Center and Emory University. This brief contains data from a survey...
Threat and Opportunity: Chinese Public Views on the United States
China Pulse is a twice-annual survey research project measuring Chinese public opinion on international relations conducted by The Carter Center and Emory University. This brief contains data from a preliminary...