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The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Security, Economics, Environment, Society, and More

The U.S.-China relationship is multifaceted, singularly important, and recently troubled. The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations brings together leading scholars specializing in key areas to examine…

China's Shifting Nuclear Policy and Its Implications for International Security

Tong Zhao, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Evidence shows that the main goal of China’s nuclear weapons today is no longer only to maintain nuclear-level stability with the United States, but also to help achieve U.S.-China political stability. The new goal…

Xi Jinping’s Power Concentration and Implications for Chinese Foreign Policy

Suisheng Zhao, Professor of International Studies, University of Denver

Xi further consolidated his power and becomes an all-powerful empire at the CCP 20th National Congress. How has the lineup changed the CCP elite politics? How has Xi reached this point of power? What are the foreign…

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Phillip Saunders, Ph.D., Director of the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs and Distinguished Research Fellow at National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies

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Cheng Li, Director and Senior Fellow, The John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution

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Hongwei Bao, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Nottingham

The End of Zero Covid - Personal Notes on life on the ground during the tumultuous last phase of Zero Covid and its aftermath

Deborah Seligsohn, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Villanova University

Deborah Seligsohn was in China from mid-October 2022 through January 7, 2023. She got to enjoy two separate quarantine regimes, multiple different testing regimes and life under the direction of one's local district…

Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic

Mike Chinoy, Nonresident senior fellow at the U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California

The China beat is one of the toughest in journalism- and one of the most important. How the U.S. media has covered the country has profoundly influenced American government policy and shaped public opinion, not only…

The Sex Trade in China: Policing, Health, Business, and the Regulation of Prostitution

Margaret Boittin, Assistant Professor of Law, York University

The Informal Rules of the Chinese Communist Party

Ewan Smith, Associate Professor of Public Law, University College London; Hauser Global Fellow, New York University Law School

Professor Smith discusses his recent China Quarterly article "On the …