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People visit a main shopping area in Shanghai, China July 12, 2021. Picture taken July 12, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song

Order from Chaos

The Shanghai middle class: Embracing “cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics”?

Friday, July 30, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A coast guard ship sails at the Port of Taipei in Taipei, Taiwan February 9, 2021. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo

Order from Chaos

Taiwan voters should look before they leap on pork referendum

Monday, July 12, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. and Chinese flags are seen before a meeting between senior defence officials from both countries at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 9, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo

China

The Cold War is a poor analogy for today’s US-China tensions

Ryan Hass and Jessica Chen Weiss

Monday, July 12, 2021

Global China: Assessing China’s growing role in the world

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Cheng Li

Director - John L. Thornton China Center

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy

David Dollar

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, John L. Thornton China Center

Ryan Hass

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center

The Michael H. Armacost Chair

Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies

Nonresident Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School

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Research

U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden arrives with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (not pictured) at a China-US Business Dialogue in the Beijing Hotel in Beijing August 19, 2011. China and the United States "have a responsibility to strengthen macro-economic policy coordination and together boost market confidence," Xi told visiting Biden on Thursday, according to Chinese state media. REUTERS/How Hwee Young/Pool (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS)

China

Biden’s China strategy: Coalition-driven competition or Cold War-style confrontation?

May 2021

The Long Museum West Bund was founded in 2014 by Shanghainese entrepreneur couple Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei. The museum site was previously the terminal for coal shipping on the Huangpu River. Visitors to the museum can still see the view of a coal hopper unloading bridge from atop a retainer column built in the 1950s.

Essay

Shanghai’s dynamic art scene: China’s cosmopolitan middle class and the value of international cultural exchanges

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Vatnajokull National Park, southeast Iceland, Europe.

China

Northern expedition: China’s Arctic activities and ambitions

Rush Doshi, Alexis Dale-Huang, and Gaoqi Zhang

April 2021

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Events

Middle-class Shanghai: Reshaping US-China engagement

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Difficult choices: Taiwan’s quest for security and the good life

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Do US-China educational exchanges serve American interests?

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Blog Posts

Taiwanese people walk past a huge banner with a Taiwan national flag amid increased tensions with China, in Taipei, Taiwan. With more jet fighters cruising around the island sent by Beijing, Taiwan foreign minister Joseph Wu has said Taiwan will defend itself to the “very last day” whilst it has been fostering relationship with the United States on military, economy, technology and medical services.Where: Taipei, TaiwanWhen: 13 Apr 2021Credit: Daniel Ceng/Cover Images

Order from Chaos

Taiwan needs assuredness, not alarm

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

People walk along Nanjing Pedestrian Road, a main shopping area, during the Labour Day holiday, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Shanghai, China May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song

Order from Chaos

Two tales of a city: How middle-class Shanghai reveals China’s unsettled future

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (2nd R), joined by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (R), speaks while facing Yang Jiechi (2nd L), director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office, and Wang Yi (L), China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister, at the opening session of U.S.-China talks at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S. March 18, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

FixGov

What does Biden’s first 100 days tell us about his approach to China?

Monday, April 26, 2021

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Books

Cvr: Middle Class Shanghai

Middle Class Shanghai

By Cheng Li

2021

Cover: Difficult Choices

Difficult Choices

By Richard C. Bush

2021

Stronger cover

Stronger: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence

By Ryan Hass

2021

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