The China Program is part of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Institutions and Organizations
Scholarly Publications
Fateful Decisions: Choices That Will Shape China's Future
May 2020
Explore our series of multimedia interviews and Q&As with the contributors to this volume: China Faces Tough Decisions and Stronger Headwinds China’s Incentives to Work Within the U.S.-led...
China’s Challenges: Now It Gets Much Harder
March 2020
The easy phases of China’s quest for wealth and power are over. After forty years, every one of a set of favorable conditions has diminished or vanished, and China’s future, neither inevitable nor...
ASEAN between China and America: Is It Time to Try Horsing the Cow?
February 2017
Admirers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are impressed with the fact that it continues to exist and that an outright war has never broken out between its members.
Other Publications
President Trump's Asia Inbox
February 2017
Scholars at Stanford's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies assess the strategic situation in East Asia to be unsettled, unstable, and...
动荡世界中的安全挑战:更少敌人、更多挑战和焦虑
August 2015
A version of this paper, "Security Challenges in a Turbulent World: Fewer Enemies, More Challenges, and Greater Anxiety," delivered at the International Areas Studies Symposium at the University of...
News
U.S.-China Relations in the Biden Era
March 2021
Dr. Thomas Wright examines the recent history of US-China relations and what that might mean for the new administration.
Military Competition with China: Harder to Win Than During the Cold War?
February 2021
On February 10th, the APARC China Program hosted Professor Oriana Mastro to discuss military relations between the US and China, and why deterrence might be even more difficult than during the Cold...
Events
U.S.-China Relations in the Biden Era
September 23, 2020
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China’s Belt, Road, and Beyond: State Mobilization and Localized Implementation
September 23, 2020
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When Beijing Goes to Washington: Autocratic Lobbying Influence in Democracies
September 23, 2020
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Projects
A New Cold War?: Sharp Power, Strategic Competition, and the Future of U.S.-China Relations
Trade conflict has exploded. The media is rife with stories of China’s unfair trade practices, cyber theft, IP theft and forced technology transfers.
English
An Expanding Toolkit: The Evolution of Governance in China
China has undergone historic economic, social and cultural transformations since its Opening and Reform.
English
Political Movements in an Authoritarian Hierarchy
This project investigates the sources of stability and conflict in authoritarian regimes, especially regimes that have a unitary national government, apply threats and repression to their own...
English
Multimedia
The South China Sea: What is to be Done?
April 2017
Audio and transcript from the Shorenstein APARC China Program seminar, "The South China Sea: What is to be Done?", on March 8, 2017, with Donald K.
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