Conversation
05.09.20

How Will China Shape Global Governance?

Jeremy Youde, Melanie Hart & more

How is the Trump administration’s contempt for, and retreat from, multilateral bodies affecting China’s position and weight within them—or indeed its overall strategy for relations with these organizations? Do China’s leaders aspire to supplant...

China in the World Podcast
02.11.17

Trump Will Honor ‘One China’ Policy

Paul Haenle & Evan Medeiros
from Carnegie China

President Trump agreed to honor the U.S. “one China” policy in his first phone call with President Xi Jinping since taking office, providing the basis for bilateral relations to move forward. Shortly after the February 9 call, Paul Haenle spoke...

Conversation
02.10.17

Did Xi Just Outmaneuver Trump?

M. Taylor Fravel, Isaac Stone Fish & more

On the evening of February 9, U.S. President Donald Trump had what the White House described in a terse readout...

Xi Jinping’s Back Channel to Donald Trump

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s regime is under pressure to rethink its U.S. strategy now that Donald Trump has been inaugurated as president of the U.S. and appears intent on changing the power dynamic between the two giants.

China Can Thrive in the Trump Era

China has a chance to become a full-fledged superpower if it responds to the Trump presidency by opening up more to the world economically and politically.

The China Africa Project
01.24.17

How Taiwan Became a Divisive Political Issue in South Africa

Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more

South Africa’s opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), now sees the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party’s close ties to China as a vulnerability that the DA aims to exploit. Evidence of this new strategy came in...

Underlying Strains in Taiwan-U.S. Political Relations

Congressional Research Service

The U.S. policy framework for Taiwan was laid down in 1979 when Washington severed official relations with the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan and instead recognized the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as the legitimate Chinese government. The...

Taiwan-U.S. Political Relations: New Strains and Changes

Congressional Research Service

The U.S. policy framework for Taiwan was laid down in 1979 when Washington severed official relations with the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan and instead recognized the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as the legitimate Chinese government. The...

Evolution of the “One China” Policy

Congressional Research Service

On July 9, 1999, questions about the “one China” policy arose again after Lee Teng-hui, then-President of Taiwan, characterized cross-strait relations as “special state-to-state ties.” The Clinton Administration responded that Lee’s statement was...