Christopher K. Johnson is President and CEO of China Strategies Group, a political risk consulting firm, and Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Centre for China Analysis. Chris spent nearly two decades serving in the U.S. Government’s intelligence and foreign affairs communities. He worked as a senior China analyst at the CIA, where he […]
Germany’s growing dependence on the Chinese economy by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges Germany’s leading car manufacturer Volkswagen sells roughly half of its cars to Chinese customers. And it’s not the only company that has put big bets on China. No other European economy is as dependent on China as is Germany. At the same […]
On the eve of the 20th National Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Richard McGregor will share his thoughts and questions on China’s biggest political event. About our speaker: Richard McGregor is a Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, Australia’s premier foreign policy think tank, in Sydney. A former Beijing and Washington […]
With the conclusion of the 20th Party Congress, it is more clear than ever that the “reform and opening” era is now over. All of the core political, economic, and social aspects of the reform and opening policies have been rolled back or abandoned altogether. Where does that leave the CCP, and where is it […]
Why are semiconductors a critical area of contestation between China and the United States? Today, China spends as much money importing chips as it does importing oil, while the U.S. is trying to cut off access to the most advanced chips and chipmaking tools. Both countries' militaries realize that the future of military power will depend […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to make a short, in-person trip to the PRC in early February - the highest-ranking US government officer to visit Beijing since the start of the global Covid pandemic. Blinken will be building on a slight rapprochman brokered on the sidelines of the G20 meeting last November […]
After the Chinese government in December dropped all Covid-restrictions the virus spread like wildfire – faster than many experts had predicted. Up to one billion people might have been infected already. Close to one million people might have died from or with Covid. But these are only rough estimates as the government doesn’t release ana […]
China conducted a long series of live-fire military drills after former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year. With the current US House Speaker potentially planning another trip to Taiwan this spring, Dr. Ling examines the Chinese PLA’s current capabilities. How could the PLA project that strength across the Taiwan Strait? How […]
Matt Reynolds, a fellow in the Economics Program of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and Matthew Goodman, a Senior Vice President at the Center, recently co-authored a paper on the ways in which China attempts to exert influence through economic coercion. Hear about their analysis of eight recent cases from Japan, Norway, the […]
Agatha will provide her view on the current state of EU-China relations, potential for transatlantic alignment on China issues, and evolutions in European business appetite in the China market. About the Speaker: Agatha Kratz is a Director at Rhodium Group. She heads Rhodium’s China corporate advisory team, as well as Rhodium’s research on European Union-China […]
Traffic on the Airport Expressway in Beijing has been worse than usual recently, as a procession of foreign dignitaries have visited the capital, including the Spanish and French premiers, as well as the President of the European Commission. Join Merics (Mercator Institute for China Studies) analysts Francesca Ghiretti and Greg Stec as they discuss what […]
Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Foreign correspondents have confronted war, revolution, isolation, internal upheaval, and onerous government restrictions as well as barriers of language, culture, and politics. Mike Chinoy's new book, "Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic," tells […]
