Human Rights and China

As we mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 25th anniversary of the Bangkok…

China’s Response to the US-China Trade War and Its Spillover Effects

Heng Wang, Associate Professor of Law, University of New South Wales

China’s response to current US trade policy will have significant ramifications within China and may have spillover effects beyond China. This talk will assess how China is responding to the US trade approach, and…

Testing Legislator Responsiveness in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in Vietnam with Possible Lessons for China

Edmund Malesky, Professor of Political Science, Duke University

This research aims to establish whether targeted provision of constituent preferences increases the responsiveness of delegates to the Vietnamese National Assembly (VNA). Utilizing a randomized control trial (RCT),…

Digital Technologies and Financial Governance in China's Fin-tech Development

Jing Wang, Assistant Professor of Communication, Tulane University

Leading the global fin-tech market, Chinese fin-tech companies, such as Ant Financial and Tencent Finance are setting paradigms for business innovation and economic development. In the meantime, there has been…

Overreach and Overreaction: The Crisis in US-China Relations

2018-2019 CSCC Annual Public Lecture

Susan Shirk, Chair of the 21st Century China Program, UCSD; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (1997-2000)

Relations between the United States and China today have become more competitive and tense than they have been during the past forty years since the 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations.   The deterioration of…

Roundtable Discussion on US Foreign Policy and the Indo-Pacific Strategy

Walter Douglas, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, US Department of State

Walter Douglas is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy in…

Corporate Concentration and Air Pollution Governance in China

Deborah Seligsohn, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Villanova University

Overall air quality in China has improved steadily since 2011. A little-studied aspect of pollution control in China is that…

Technology Tensions in the U.S.-China Relationship

Kaiser Kuo, Host of the Sinica Podcast

One of China's top tech company executives is dramatically detained in Canada at the request of the Trump Administration. Hackers traced to China compromise the customer database of one of the U.S.'s largest hotel…

Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers and Industrial Quality Upgrading

Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy

Jie Bai, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Are quid pro quo policies effective in facilitating knowledge transfers to developing countries? We study this question in the context of the Chinese automobile industry where foreign firms are…

Escaping Import Competition and Downstream Tariffs in China

Ann Harrison, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

This research proposes and provides evidence for a new source of gains from trade: Firms invest in product differentiation to escape import competition. In the data and in the model, these investments are associated…