New research shows that in the first year of the U.S.-China trade war, the Trump administration’s tariffs and other actions elevated political risk for companies — but the American firms in China that were most exposed to tariffs were not more likely to exit the Chinese market, let alone repatriate to the U.S.
Taiwan was the engine that powered China’s transformation into a global economic superpower, the scholar Shelley Rigger writes in her new book, "The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China's Economic Rise." She appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss the history of cross-Taiwan Strait economic ties.
“China, when it makes targets, is not unreliable in commitments,” said Michael Davidson, a leading scholar on China's environmental policy. But that doesn't mean the path to carbon neutral will be easy.
“It's difficult to perfectly coordinate carrots and sticks over the long haul. One of them ends up gumming up the other.” The scholar Manfred Elfstrom discusses the prevalence of labor strikes in China, and how the nominally worker-centered Communist Party both crushes organized activism and compromises in response to concerns.
Prior to the Trump administration, top government officials from the world's two largest economies used to meet annually in a massive forum. Susan Thornton, Rorry Daniels, and Daniel Jasper appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss a new study that pushes back on the view — now popular in Washington — that the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) was unproductive.
Is it a “profound revolution,” or just bureaucratic competition? Does Xi Jinping have a master plan, or is the regulatory pile-on a coincidence of the political calendar? Lizzi Lee and Jude Blanchette offered their (sometimes surprising) views of China's sweeping changes on the Sinica Podcast.
Rosie Levine and Jan Berris of the National Committee on United States-China Relations appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss what 82 U.S.-based think tanks, academic centers, and NGOs with China-focused programs had to say about studying the country during a downward spiral in bilateral relations.
Unpacking the relationship between corruption and economic growth in China's Gilded Age.
A year after its Xinjiang-based subsidiary was sanctioned by the U.S. government, textile giant Esquel Group recently successfully got the Department of Commerce to reverse its decision. Harvard researcher Bill Overholt appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss the case.