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The Geopolitics of Shenyang’s Koreatown

At first glance, the aromas of bulgogi barbeque and sounds of K-pop blasting from karaoke bars make Xita Street seem like any other Koreatown. But Xita Street in the northeastern Chinese city of...

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Charting the Course for US-China Relations

China-U.S. relations have reached a turning point. While President Trump recently announced that trade war negotiations were going well and a deal may be imminent, any settlement is likely only the...

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US-China Symbiosis in the 21st Century?

What is the outlook for US-China symbiosis? On February 14th, 2019, the 21st Century China Center hosted Joe Tsai, co-founder and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, to discuss the future of...

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China’s Authoritarian Revival: Three Questions with Carl Minzner

Carl Minzner is a Professor of Law at Fordham University specializing in Chinese Law and Governance. His recently published book, End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival is Undermining its...

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US-China Sports Diplomacy: Three Questions with David Noel

David Noel graduated from UCSD GPS in 2014 with an MA in International Affairs and Management. He is now the co-founder of Red Phoenix Entertainment, a company that works to create connections between...

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Film Review: “The Crossing” A Depoliticized Hong Kong

The Crossing Chinese Poster (Source: Douban.com) The Crossing (Guo Chun Tian, 过春天) is a coming-of-age movie set in Hong Kong directed by Bai Xue, a young mainland Chinese director. Peipei, the main...

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How China Is Bringing Its Forests Back

From a bird’s eye view, a study by NASA using satellite data reveals the earth is becoming greener. China and India combined account for a third of the overall growth. The bulk of India’s greening...

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A New Equilibrium for US-China Relations

US-China relations have entered a new era of competition. To help figure out how to navigate this swiftly changing and deteriorating relationship, the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global...

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The State of US-China Policy: 3 Questions with Jeffrey Bader

(Source: Brookings Institution) Jeffrey A. Bader is a Senior Fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. A former foreign service officer, Bader had a three-decade long...

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How Shifting Identity Politics are Shaping the Hong Kong Protests

A group of young protesters rushed to the door of the Hong Kong Legislative Council building and smashed the heavy door with sticks and rocks. Some pro-democracy legislators were crying and pleading...

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Hong Kong Protest Family Politics

(Photo: Rachel Lietzow speaking at “A Summer of Protests”Credit: School of Global Policy and Strategy)  On October 10, the 21st Century China Center at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and...

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Effects of the Trade War: Three Questions with Yasheng Huang

(Source: Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship) Yasheng Huang is the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and Faculty Director of Action Learning at the MIT Sloan School of...

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Behind the Scenes of the UC San Diego US-China Forum

Politics is the art of grandstanding. Add to this the inherent complexity of the US-China relationship—a tangled web of diplomatic, economic, historical, and geopolitical dynamics between the world’s...

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Political Signaling in China’s 70th Anniversary Military Parade

On October 1st, the People’s Republic of China showed its might to the world at a grand military parade that marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the country—despite the shadow cast by the...

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The Chinese Government’s Reactions to #MeToo

On October 24th, Sophie Xueqin Huang (黃 雪琴) was detained by Chinese police and accused of “provoking trouble”. Huang is a Chinese #MeToo activist and independent investigative journalist who has been...

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Kevin Rudd on US-China “Decoupling”

On November 4th, the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego hosted the Eighth Robert F. Ellsworth Memorial Lecture. This year’s speaker was the Honorable Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime...

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The Failure of the KMT

On January 11, Tsai Ing-wen (蔡 英文) from the DPP defeated her rivals: Han Kuo-yu (韓 國瑜) from the KMT and James Soong (宋 楚瑜) from the PFP and won the 2020 Taiwanese (ROC) presidential election with near...

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US-China Rivalry and the Quasi-war in ASEAN – 2019 China Focus Essay Contest...

The 2019 China Focus Essay Contest winners are Bailey Marsheck at Yenching Academy of Peking University and Michael Ostique at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Their essays answered the...

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Trans-Pacific Antagonism, Trans-Atlantic Apprehension: Western Europe’s 5G...

The 2019 China Focus Essay Contest winners are Bailey Marsheck from Yenching Academy of Peking University and Michael Ostique from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Their essays answered...

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The China Dream and the Pursuit of Chineseness – Xinjiang “Re-Education”...

On January 23, the 21st Century China Center at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy hosted an event titled “The Xinjiang Crisis: Domestic and International Reactions.” The talk...

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