The China Program is part of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Economic Affairs
Scholarly Publications
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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...
News
Bargaining Behind Closed Doors: Why China’s Local Government Debt Is Not a Local Problem
January 2022
New research in 'The China Journal' by APARC’s Jean Oi and colleagues suggests that the roots of China’s massive local government debt problem lie in secretive financing institutions...
Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations
November 2021
Was the strategy of engagement with China worthwhile? Experts Mary Bullock, Thomas Fingar, David M. Lampton, and Anne Thurston discuss their recent release, "Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-...
Navigating Chinese Investment, Trade, and Technology: The New Economy Conference
June 2021
Ambassador Craig Allen, David Cheng, James Green, and Anja Manuel explore the role of Chinese economic activity in California in the context of the greater US-Chinese relationship.
Old Events
Challenges to the United States: Japan in the 1980s and China today
October 14, 2020
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A View from Across the Pacific: Chinese Perceptions of the United States
September 23, 2020
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From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
September 23, 2020
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Projects
The Future of China's Economy
China’s spectacular growth over the last 40 years has slowed but remains strong, leading the world in economic recovery after the global financial crisis, and even in the current COVID-19 pandemic...
English
The PRC at 70: Past, Present -- and Future?
IMPORTANT EVENT UPDATE: In keeping with Stanford University's March 3 message to the campus community on COVID-19 and current recommendations of the CDC, the China Program is making modifications...
English
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
Multimedia
China’s Belt, Road, and Beyond: State Mobilization and Localized Implementation
October 2020
Most people attribute the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to Beijing’s imperialist ambitions.