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Geoeconomics and Trade

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Evaluating Chip Overcapacity and the Transatlantic Trade Tool Kit

Commentary by Emily Benson, Catharine Mouradian, and Pau Alvarez-Aragones — April 5, 2024

Friendshoring the Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain

Unpacking Linkages Between the Chinese State and Private Firms

Taiwan

Building International Support for Taiwan

Brief by Jude Blanchette, Ryan Hass, and Lily McElwee — February 13, 2024

Surveying the Experts: U.S. and Taiwan Views on China's Approach to Taiwan

Scared Strait: Understanding the Economic and Financial Impacts of a Taiwan Crisis

Defense and Military

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First Among Piers: Chinese Ships Settle In at Cambodia's Ream

Commentary — April 18, 2024

China Outpacing U.S. Defense Industrial Base

Tracking China’s Naval Modernization at Key Shipyards

Tech Competition

Innovation and Antitrust in Competition with China

Commentary by James Andrew Lewis — April 29, 2024

TikTok and National Security

Rethinking Technology Transfer Policy toward China

Geopolitics

U.S.-China Scholarly Recoupling: Advancing Mutual Understanding in an Era of Intense Rivalry

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Report by Scott Kennedy — March 27, 2024

Exporting Autocracy

U.S.-China Relations in 2024: Managing Competition without Conflict

Health

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The Health Security Outcomes of APEC and the Biden-Xi Dialogue

Critical Questions by Sophia Hirshfield and J. Stephen Morrison — December 19, 2023

Smallpox Eradication: A Model for Global Cooperation

Battling Biological Threats: Complacency, Progress, or Both?

Human Rights

How China and Russia Facilitate North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses

Report by Victor Cha and Katrin Fraser Katz — September 14, 2023

What’s Next for the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act?

To Build Resilient Global Supply Chains, Incorporate Respect for Human Rights

Energy and Climate

Green Industrial Policy: A Holistic Approach

Brief by Ilaria Mazzocco — February 27, 2024

Balancing Act: Managing European Dependencies on China for Climate Technologies

China’s Essential Role in the Gulf States’ Energy Transitions

Interactive Analysis

A Chinese research vessel sails through the ocean.

Skirting the Shores

China’s New High-Tech Research Ship Probes the Waters around Taiwan

Surveying the Seas

China’s Dual-Use Research Operations in the Indian Ocean

A satellite view of the Bay of Bengal coastline

Submarine Diplomacy

A Snapshot of China's Influence along the Bay of Bengal

Is China a Leader in Quantum Technologies?

Mineral Monopoly: China’s Control over Gallium Is a National Security Threat

Frozen Frontiers

China’s Great Power Ambitions in the Polar Regions

The U.S. Defense Industrial Base Is Not Prepared for a Possible Conflict with China

Dire Straits

China’s Push to Secure Its Energy Interests in the Middle East

Eyes on the Skies

China's Growing Space Footprint in South America

Timeline of China's Deleveraging Campaign

Photo: Naval Air Crewman 1st Class Justin Sherman/U.S. Air Force

In the Shadow of Warships

How foreign companies help modernize China’s navy

Recent Podcast Episodes

China’s Leftover Women: A Conversation with Dr. Leta Hong Fincher

Steel Tariffs, Ways and Means Trade Bills, and Ambassador Tai’s Hill Hearings

The Global Talent Competition with Remco Zwetsloot, CSIS Adjunct Fellow

Inside Beijing with China Scholar Orville Schell

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping: A Conversation with Dr. Steve Tsang

Building a Path Forward: Peking University’s Yu Tiejun on U.S.-China Scholarly Recoupling

China Outpacing U.S. Defense Base

National Security with Chinese Characteristics: A Conversation with Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens

A Journalist’s Take on the U.S.-China Relationship

China’s Perspective on the Current Middle East Crises: A Conversation with Mr. Tuvia Gering

Overcapacity

Shedding Light on China’s Hidden Reach: A Conversation with Dr. Matthew Funaiole and Mr. Brian Hart

China's New Domestic Politics

GeoTech Flashpoints with Reva Goujon, Director at Rhodium Group

Legacy Chips, Auto Exports, and the Red Sea

China's Accelerated Expansion of its Nuclear Arsenal Represents a Shift in China's Nuclear Strategy and Doctrine

Will Sanctions Deter China?

The United States and China are Locked in a New Cold War: A Debate with Dr. Michael Beckley and Dr. Arne Westad

China is More Likely to Blockade Taiwan Than Invade the Island in the Next Ten Years

Xi Jinping has Signaled that Reunification with Taiwan is a Legacy Issue that he Must Achieve During his Term in Office

Video

The Hidden Costs of China's Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean

Deterring Chinese Economic Coercion: Dr. Victor Cha for CSIS's 2024 Global Forecast

Beijing's Defense Industrial Base: Seth Jones for CSIS's 2024 Global Forecast

Testify with Ilaria Mazzocco: China's Electric Vehicle Industry

Testify with Matthew Reynolds: China’s Economic Aggression and Predatory Practices

Testify with Victor Cha: Examining China’s Coercive Economic Tactics

The First Battle of the Next War: A US-China Conflict over Taiwan

The ReCap | Pausing Proliferation: Facing China's Military Engine Development

Testify with Matthew Goodman: Countering China's Trade and Investment Agenda

Testify with Kari Bingen: Countering Threats from the Chinese Communist Party to the Homeland

Featured Courses

Taiwan in the Balance

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Inside DOD’s FY 2025 Budget

April 16, 2024

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In the News

China’s newest aircraft carrier heads to sea for first time

Brian Hart in CNN — May 1, 2024

There’s No Easy Answer to Chinese EVs

Ilaria Mazzocco in The Atlantic — April 18, 2024

America’s Flailing Industrial Policy Can Take Lessons From China

Ilaria Mazzocco in Foreign Policy — April 11, 2024

Where U.S.-China relations stand as Yellen wraps up economic talks

Scott Kennedy in CBS — April 8, 2024

What to Know About the Proposed TikTok Legislation

James Andrew Lewis in The New York Times — March 13, 2024

Nothing in NPC Indicates Chinese Leadership 'Gets it,' CSIS Says

Scott Kennedy in Bloomberg — March 5, 2024

Chinese research ships increase activity near Taiwan

Matthew P. Funaiole in Financial Times — February 26, 2024

China circumvents US tariffs by shipping more goods via Mexico

Ilaria Mazzocco in Finacial Times — February 21, 2024

US warns China against dumping goods on global markets

Scott Kennedy in Financial Times — February 19, 2024

China’s Shipyards Are Ready for a Protracted War. America’s Aren’t.

Matthew P. Funaiole in The Wall Street Journal — February 13, 2024

Here's what to know about the collapse of China's Evergrande property developer

Scott Kennedy in NPR — January 30, 2024

A chapter of diplomacy closes as US and Chinese climate envoys say farewell

Ilaria Mazzocco in Financial Times — January 20, 2024

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Innovation and Antitrust in Competition with China

CSIS's Jim Lewis evaluates current U.S. antitrust policies in an age of increasing tech competition with China.

Commentary by James Andrew Lewis — April 29, 2024

Book Event: The Mountains Are High

Please join the Freeman Chair for a discussion with Alec Ash, author of the new book The Mountains Are High. (Scribe, Februrary 2024).

Event — April 23, 2024

The Trade Guys

Steel Tariffs, Ways and Means Trade Bills, and Ambassador Tai’s Hill Hearings

The Trade Guys discuss Chinese steel import tariffs, the House Ways and Means Committee trade bills, and the Katherine Tai hearings on Capitol Hill.

Podcast Episode by Scott Miller, William Alan Reinsch, and Thibault Denamiel — April 22, 2024

GeoTech Wars

The Global Talent Competition with Remco Zwetsloot, CSIS Adjunct Fellow

Remco Zwetsloot joins Kirti to discuss the importance of workers in innovation and the competition between the United States and China for them.

Podcast Episode by Kirti Gupta and Remco Zwetsloot — April 16, 2024

GeoTech Wars

Inside Beijing with China Scholar Orville Schell

Orville Schell, Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society. joins to discuss why China has shifted course after decades of economic growth driven by globalization.

Podcast Episode by Kirti Gupta — April 2, 2024

Chinese Assessments of AI: Risks and Mitigation Strategies

Two leading analysts examine recently translated documents to assess how Beijing is weighing the risks and challenges of AI, similarities and differences to the approaches emerging in other capitals, and implications for U.S.-China competition.

Commentary — April 2, 2024

Chinese Assessments of AI: Risks and Approaches to Mitigation

Please join the Interpret: China project for a discussion of Chinese assessments of AI risks and opportunities.

Event — March 28, 2024

ChinaPower

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping: A Conversation with Dr. Steve Tsang

In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Dr. Steve Tsang joins us to discuss his new book The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, coauthored with Dr. Olivia Cheung.

Podcast Episode by Bonny Lin — March 28, 2024

China Field Notes – with Scott Kennedy

Building a Path Forward: Peking University’s Yu Tiejun on U.S.-China Scholarly Recoupling

Yu Tiejun, President of Peking University’s Institute of International and Strategic Studies, discusses the importance of scholarly collaboration between the U.S.-China and his career studying international affairs.

Podcast Episode by Scott Kennedy — March 27, 2024

Unpacking Linkages Between the Chinese State and Private Firms

Ever since China began integrating into the global economy and shifting away from a planned economy in the late 1970s, domestic and foreign observers have closely tracked the development of the country’s emerging private sector.

Commentary by Ilaria Mazzocco — March 21, 2024

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