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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The Hardest Part of “Reunifying Taiwan by Force” May Not Be the Invasion
As debate grows in China over the possibility of using force against Taiwan, one argument is gaining increasing attention: even if Beijing could win the war militarily, the political, economic,...
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...
Is Now the “Best Window” for Military Unification with Taiwan?
Some Chinese analysts have recently argued that the present moment may represent the “best window of opportunity” for Beijing to resolve the Taiwan issue by force. Why Now Is the...
The Rigorous Pragmatism of Chinese-Syrian Relations
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in late 2024 forced Beijing to reassess its Syria policy from the ground up. For over a decade, China’s engagement with Damascus rested on…
What is Global China? w/ Jessica DiCarlo
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...
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…
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...
Chinese Public Ambivalent on Use of Force Against Taiwan
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...
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...