China’s Law of the Sea
April 17, 2023
Isaac B. Kardon— China’s Law of the Sea tells the story of the international order now emerging in the littorals of East Asia. The book is about the People’s Republic… READ MORE
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Interests, Not Ideology, Should Drive America’s Approach to China
March 16, 2023
Ryan Hass— Ideologues prefer to understand the U.S.-China relationship as a contest between good versus evil. They take comfort in clean divisions between democracies versus autocracies. They like parallels between… READ MORE
Cixi and the Empowering of Women’s Talent in Late Imperial China
February 9, 2023
Ying-chen Peng — 2022 was concluded with ominous news from Afghanistan: the Taliban government suspended university education for all female students. It was another move to restrict women’s access to… READ MORE
To the Unsung Interpreters
December 12, 2022
Nile Green— Today we take all sorts of cultural knowledge for granted. Few people nowadays have probably never heard of the Buddha or Confucius. Yet much of today’s global understanding… READ MORE
Lost Opportunity in Bali
November 23, 2022
Stephen Roach— Leader-to-leader summits have long been portrayed as the crown jewel of international diplomacy. Such was the hope with the November 14 meeting in Bali between U.S. President Joe… READ MORE
China and the Fate of Taiwan
January 26, 2021
Bill Hayton– The fate of Taiwan, an island at the mouth of the South China Sea equidistant between China, Japan, and the Philippines, has returned to the top of the… READ MORE
US Dominance is Over, but China Won’t Take its Place
September 28, 2020
Paola Subacchi— With President Trump at the helm, the United States has been a controversial and divisive leader whose actions have been detrimental for the international order. Indeed, Trump’s presidency has entailed… READ MORE
Military Strategy in the Manchu Dynasty
May 13, 2020
Jeremy Black— In the last iteration of dynastic change, the rise of the Manchu (or Qing) dynasty and its replacement of the Ming in 1644–52, a process in which campaigning,… READ MORE
How Europe’s and China’s Cold War Exits Shape Today
March 16, 2020
Kristina Spohr — It is striking that hardly anybody in East or West in the late 1980s foresaw or imagined the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, let alone the demise of… READ MORE
A Lesson for American Foreign Trade with China
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Matthew Lockwood— In 1792, the Emperor of China sent a letter to George III of Great Britain. Beneath the surface of diplomatic politeness, it was a gallingly peremptory, even dismissive… READ MORE
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