The Assessing China Project focuses on advancing recommendations for how the United States should respond to China’s actions that implicate key American interests and values.
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As a new U.S. administration takes office amid two major wars in Europe and the Middle East, heightened risks of conflict in the Indo-Pacific region, and a host of other regional and global challenges, the Brookings Assessing China Project will provide clear-eyed analysis of U.S. and Chinese positions on these critical issues—identifying where they have conflicting and convergent interests. Assessing China Phase 4 will inject bold, original, forward-thinking ideas on how the two states might navigate pressing international crises, both independently and collaboratively, and contribute to the broader policy discourse on U.S.-China relations in a rapidly evolving global landscape.
William A. Galston, Ryan Hass, Patricia M. Kim, Melanie W. Sisson, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Thomas Wright, Miles Yu +2 more
February 18, 2026
Kyle Chan, Samantha Gross, Liza Tobin, David G. Victor, Ryan Hass, Patricia M. Kim +1 more
January 8, 2026
Jeffrey Feltman, Jennifer Hong Whetsell, Patricia M. Kim, Randall G. Schriver, Andrew Yeo, Ryan Hass, Patricia M. Kim, Emilie Kimball +3 more
October 20, 2025
Evans J.R. Revere
October 20, 2025
Jonathan A. Czin, Daniel S. Hamilton, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Susan A. Thornton, Tara Varma, Thomas Wright, Ryan Hass, Patricia M. Kim, Emilie Kimball +4 more
September 11, 2025
Assessing China’s “Lost in translation: Decoding Chinese strategic narratives” series critically examines key strategic concepts, popular theories, and prevalent debates in the Chinese political system, and discusses their implications for U.S. policy.
Wu Xinbo
March 27, 2026
Ryan Hass, Patricia M. Kim, Mireya Solís, John Lee, Klaus Heinrich Raditio, Rumi Aoyama, Ngeow Chow Bing, Enrico V. Gloria, Jae Ho Chung, Selina Ho, Yu-Jie Chen, Huong Le Thu +7 more
March 13, 2026
Henrietta Levin
February 13, 2026
Sun Chenghao
January 12, 2026