InterviewsInterview with Zhou Wenxing: Cross-Taiwan Strait Relat… Juan Zhang • 12/07/2025During this in-depth interview, Dr. Zhou Wenxing, an Associate Professor at Nanjing University’s School of International Studies and…
InterviewsInterview with Dr. Joel Wuthnow: The Risk of “Accident… Tyler Quillen • 12/04/2025Soldiers of China’s People’s Liberation Army. 2011. Source. Any who study international relations, security, and history will necessarily be…
InterviewsExclusive Interview | Lee Jones: The Contemporary Cold… Alice Liu • 11/26/2025The second Trump administration saw the president using tariffs as a tool to reorder global power. Debate over…
InterviewsExclusive Interview | The Great Transformation: Westad… Alice Liu • 11/26/2025The Sunshine of Mao Zedong Thought Illuminates the Path of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Source In the historical…
InterviewsInterview with Susannah Patton: How does Southeast Asi… Tyler Quillen • 11/20/2025Source Under the second Trump administration, the United States has, through the deep restructuring of its diplomatic, economic,…
InterviewsInterview with Rana Mitter: How China’s WWII Memory Fu… Alice Liu • 11/17/2025“Collective Memory – Zhongnanhai.” 2004-2008. Chen Shaoxiong. Source. The Bretton Woods Conference initiated a decade that most nations…
InterviewsThe Taiwan-North Korea Dynamic: An Interview with Dr.… Tyler Quillen • 11/11/2025Xi Jinping (middle) between Vladimir Putin (left) and Kim Jong Un (right) at China’s Victory Day parade. September…
InterviewsThe UN, AI, and Climate Change: An Interview with Clim… Wei Wei Chen • 11/11/2025As global climate cooperation discussions evolve across high-level meetings such as the UN General Assembly (UNGA), New York…
InterviewsInterview with James Siebens on Taiwan and China’s Str… Tyler Quillen • 11/04/2025Photo Source Over the past 20 years, China’s “peaceful rise” has included substantial investments in military modernization, coupled…
InterviewsInterview With Amb. Daniel Kritenbrink on US-China Rel… Tyler Quillen • 10/29/2025On July 8, 2017, President Xi Jinping met with President Donald Trump after the closing of the G20…
InterviewsAn Interview with Pascale Massot on Power, Vulnerabili… Alice Liu • 10/28/2025Xi’an, Shanxi, China. Source. Over the past two decades of China’s surging economic transformation, many unexpected phenomena emerged.…
InterviewsAn Interview with Ji Li: Insights on Chinese Multinati… Alice Liu • 10/22/2025“Government Bureau.” 1956. George Tooker. Source In 2018, the case involving Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Meng Wanzhou…
InterviewsAn Interview with Shitong Qiao: The Authoritarian Comm… Alice Liu • 10/19/2025Source From the Sun Yat-sen republican era to the internationally renowned 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, democratic ideals have…
InterviewsAn Interview with Yun Sun: The Trade War’s Not T… Tyler Quillen • 10/15/2025The second Trump administration has brought a flurry of changes to the international ecosystem, particularly in the realm…
InterviewsInterview with Zhao Tong on the US-China Perception Ga… Tyler Quillen • 10/08/2025“The Dialogue Between Parents.” 1993. Mao Xuhui. Source. The world’s most important bilateral relationship, that of the United…
InterviewsStability Without Improvement: Professor Da Wei on the… Da Wei • 10/05/2025Source: China-US Focus The 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum was held at the Beijing International Conference Center from September…
InterviewsThe Unbearable Busyness of Hummingbirds with Xiang Bia… Alice Liu • 10/05/2025Kunming, Yunnan, PRC. May 28, 2025. Source Apart from the author of From the Soil, Fei Xiaotong, perhaps…
InterviewsWu Xinbo: China’s Strength——The Key to U.S. De-e… Wu Xinbo • 09/25/2025On September 14, 2025, representatives from China and the United States held trade talks in Madrid, Spain. Source…
InterviewsAn Interview with Graham Allison on a Trump-Xi Deal Miranda Wilson • 09/04/2025It is hard not to know Graham Allison’s work in the U.S.-China field, but, if you are unfamiliar…
InterviewsAn Interview with Eli Friedman on Transnational Solida… Diego Ge • 08/27/2025Workers at Foxconn Technology Group, Zhengzhou, Henan province. PRC. 2019. Source. Eli Friedman is a Professor of Global…
InterviewsEngagement is Not Dead w/ Terry Lautz and Deborah Davi… Miranda Wilson • 08/23/2025Source In December of 2024, I had the opportunity to interview Terry Lautz about his book Americans in…
InterviewsThe History of the Thai-Chinese and the Chinese-Thai w… Henry O'Connor • 08/15/2025San Chao Kian An Keng ศาลเจ้าเกียนอันเกง. A centuries old Guanyin shrine in Thonburi, Bangkok. Source. Thailand’s nationhood begins…
InterviewsAssessing Peaceful Unification w/ Xin Qiang Edison Chen • 08/12/2025A “Battle Copper Print” from 1787 depicting the Qianlong Emperor’s campaign against Taiwan. Source Xin Qiang (信强) is…
InterviewsChina In The World, Three Years Later w/ Ban Wang Grace Osborn • 08/09/2025Autumn Landscape in the Method of Fan Kuan by Wang Hui…but not that Wang Hui. This is the…
InterviewsDemocracy in Blue Jeans w/ Larry Diamond Diego Ge • 08/04/2025Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy…
InterviewsTaiwan After Trump w/ Amanda Hsiao Diego Ge • 07/29/2025Amanda Hsiao is a director in Eurasia Group’s China practice covering China’s foreign policy and cross-strait relations. She…
InterviewsThe Only Chinese Bookstore in D.C. w/ Yu Miao Diego Ge • 07/29/2025JF Books. Source: Diego Ge. Since its opening in Washington D.C. in September 2024 as the only Chinese-language…
InterviewsTalking It Out w/ Ryan Hass Edison Chen • 07/29/2025Barack Obama and Xi Jinping at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, CA. June 2013. As a foreign policy expert…
InterviewsA Mighty Voice w/ Vivian Wu Diego Ge • 07/29/2025Vivian Wu (L) in conversation with Liu Yan (R) on publishing in the Chinese diaspora. May 2025. Vivian…
InterviewsThrottling the Nationalist Spirit w/ Frances Yaping Wa… Juan Zhang • 07/08/2025Cover art for The Art of State Persuasion. Oxford University Press. 2024. In this interview, we speak with…
InterviewsAn Interview with Jacob Dreyer: A Shanghai-Based Ameri… Juan Zhang • 07/08/2025In July 2025, The New York Times published a widely discussed opinion piece titled “Trump’s America Is Beginning…
InterviewsAfter Engagement w/ Orville Schell Edison Chen • 07/01/2025President Clinton and President Jiang hold a joint press conference at the White House. October 29, 1997. Orville…
InterviewsTrump’s Bad for Business Big & Small w/ Art… Edison Chen • 06/24/2025Bargain Price. Shanghai. 2018. Arthur Dong is a teaching professor of strategy and economics at the Georgetown University…
InterviewsThree-Finger Salute to Autocracy w/ Jeffrey Wasserstro… Diego Ge • 06/24/2025Beneath the Winds is a series from the Monitor about the impact of the U.S.-China rivalry in Southeast…
InterviewsThe Future of People-to-People w/ David Moser Wei Wei Chen • 05/27/2025West Gate of Peking University. At a time of shifting geopolitics, educational exchange and people-to-people connections remain vital…
InterviewsAfrica and the U.S.-China Rivalry w/ Maria Repnikova Kelly Zhuang • 05/27/2025Minister Naledi Pandor meets Chinese Foreign Affairs Director Yang Jiechi. 2019. Dr. Maria Repnikova is an Associate Professor…
