China Pulse, Spring & Summer 2026Chinese Public Supports Trade and Security Cooperation… Nick Zeller, Renard Sexton, Yawei Liu • 10/02/2026Beginning in the autumn of 2025, a notable shift has taken place in American public opinion toward China.…
China Pulse, Spring & Summer 2026Taiwan: No Mandate for War, Support for Coercion Nick Zeller, Yawei Liu, Renard Sexton • 10/02/2026Cross-strait relations escalated at the opening of this year. In late December 2025, a large-scale drill by China’s…
China Watches Back: Chinese Public Opinion on the Unit… Nick Zeller • 09/11/2026Overview Join us for a discussion on new research exploring Chinese public opinion on the U.S., Taiwan, and…
InterviewsGeostrategic Globalization w/ Steve Rolf Vimi Wang • 08/14/2026The U.S.-China rivalry is often narrated through the language of tariffs, sanctions, and export controls—discrete policy tools deployed…
InterviewsChina’s Still a Union Shop w/ Immanuel Ness Emma Brignall • 08/07/2026China’s trade unions are higher performing than most in the world. Unions have secured better wages, conditions, and…
InterviewsGreat Powers, Small States w/ Joseph Liow Alice Liu • 07/30/2026In 2024, a video clip of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifying before Congress went viral on social…
InterviewsTo the Moon and Back w/ Carla Freeman Emma Brignall • 07/22/2026China has increased its presence in developing countries in the Global South in recent years, offering development institutions…
InterviewsThe Real Challenge of AI w/ Paul Triolo Emma Brignall • 07/07/2026When AI is interposed in U.S.-China relations, the discussion turns to rivalry, surveillance, and a race we are…
AnalysisNarrow but Not Peripheral: Submarine Cables and U.S.–C… Patrick Luczak, Abraham Wu • 06/26/2026At a café in London Heathrow recently, one of us submitted an assignment, asked ChatGPT about Florida’s best…
AnalysisWhy U.S.–China Competition is Losing the Lithium Trian… Quinn Ennis • 06/26/2026From electric vehicles to smartphones to grid-scale storage, the world runs on lithium batteries. The majority of known…
AnalysisThe Real Opportunity of the New Détente with China Aaron Glasserman, Mitch Presnick • 06/26/2026In the aftermath of last month’s summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, China-watchers and policymakers across the…
InterviewsOpening U.S.-PRC Relations, 54 years later w/ Amb. Cha… Emma Brignall • 06/26/2026Today, rivalry colors all aspects of U.S.-China relations. Yet this relationship was built on hopes of collaboration and…
InterviewsFrom the Tiananmen Square to the State Department w/ J… Emma Brignall • 06/20/2026Following the recent Trump-Xi Summit, many questions have been raised about the future of diplomatic relations between the…
InterviewsMake China Great Again w/ Rongbin Han Alice Liu • 06/04/2026The era of globalization that followed the Cold War greatly transformed China. Yet many Western democracies witnessed backlash…
InterviewsHalf-Vicious w/ Jennifer Lind Isobel Li • 06/04/2026Smart authoritarians adapted… They became, as Aristotle advised autocrats, ‘not vicious but half-vicious.’ — Autocracy 2.0: How China’s…
InterviewsAn Octopus with Many Tentacles w/ Lynette Ong Isobel Li • 05/22/2026China’s ambitious state-led urbanization accelerated in the early 2010s, annually increasing urban construction by 1.2 million acres— double…
InterviewsRethinking the Carter Era w/ Peng Sheng Juan Zhang • 05/19/2026How should we understand the transformation of U.S.-China relations from the Cold War era to today’s technological rivalry?…
InterviewsThe Sun Never Sets on U.S.-China Rivalry w/ Sun Chengh… Isobel Li • 04/23/2026But the days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy…are thankfully over. National Security Strategy of…
InterviewsMaking Made in China w/ Elizabeth Ingleson Isobel Li, Tyler Quillen • 03/27/2026The “Made in China” label is ubiquitous in American consumer products. From textiles to technologies, the U.S. has…
China Pulse, Fall & Winter 2025, ResearchChinese Public Expects to be Treated as Equals in Trad… Nick Zeller, Yawei Liu, Renard Sexton • 03/09/2026China Pulse is a twice-annual survey research project measuring Chinese public opinion on international relations conducted by The…
The $100K Visa Wall Webinar China-Focus-Editor • 11/17/2025Our partner Institute for China-American Studies based in Washington DC is organizing a webinar titled “The 100k Visa…
AnalysisBeyond Isolation: The Case of CATL and US-China Tech C… Aaron Zhang • 09/25/2025With Chinese EVs being shut out of American markets and Washington’s ongoing tariff negotiations designed to further isolate…
AnalysisOn Drones and Dreamliners: Analyzing Dissimilar Outcom… China-Focus-Editor • 08/13/2025Source: Boeing website [The China Focus at The Carter Center, in cooperation with the China Focus at the…
AnalysisRobotic Might, Aerospace Fright: China’s Uneven March… China-Focus-Editor • 08/13/2025Source: Nvidia website [The China Focus at The Carter Center, in cooperation with the China Focus at the…
InterviewsAn Interview with Denis Simon: The Past, Present, and… Olivia Moody • 02/08/2024The U.S.- China Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement is an agreement initially signed in 1979 that serves as…
