Since Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taiwan, eyes and ears have been fixated on the 110 miles of sea that separate the island from mainland China. Taiwan is preparing for war, even though many experts don’t think an invasion is imminent.
Bonnie Glaser has a lifetime of experience researching and advising the U.S. government on trans-Pacific geopolitics, security, and defense. I asked her all about the global anxieties China and the U.S. are causing around the world, how close we are to a war over Taiwan, and much more.
Chris Miller, associate professor of international history at the Fletcher School, talks about whether China’s massive push to build chips at home can catch up with the United States’s lead.
George Shen from IBM discusses the development of artificial intelligence in both China and the United States, and what that might mean as those technologies become more advanced and more widely adopted.
Eliot Chen, a staff writer at the Wire China, explains how goods with ties to Xinjiang are still up for grabs in U.S. stores — despite Washington’s ban on forced labor.
Taiwan hosted a group of lawmakers at its estate in Washington, D.C., right as reports emerged that the U.S. is considering a sanctions package on China.
Brandon Bochenski, the mayor of Grand Forks, North Dakota, discusses the recent bill that bans Chinese investment in U.S. agribusiness, put forth in response to a proposal by China-based Fufeng Group to build a corn milling operation in his city.
Jessica Chen Weiss, a Cornell University political scientist and recent advisor to the U.S. State Department policy planning staff, discusses how U.S.-China relations can be more than zero sum.
Bill Reinsch, international business chair and senior advisor for the CSIS and former National Trade Council president, explains what a recent Wall Street Journal article might have missed about U.S. export controls on sensitive technology.