AI and New Geopolitics: Rethinking Power in the Digital Era
Stephan Haggard on North Korean refugees: the Chinese “underground railroad,” integration into South Korea, and the future of U.S. policy
"The Yalu River seen from the Yunfeng dam with a railway bridge and a factory. North Korea on the left, China on the right." by Jacky Lee — Panoramio. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ... Read More
Syaru Shirley Lin on Taiwan’s China dilemma: contested identities and multiple interests in Taiwan’s cross-strait economic policy
Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen (right). Syaru Shirley Lin is a member of the founding faculty of the master’s program in global political economy at the Ch... Read More
Gary Jefferson on the Chinese steel industry
Gary Jefferson writes about institutions, technology, economic growth, and China’s economic transformation. At Brandeis, Jefferson has joint appointments in the Department of Economics and the Inter... Read More
Andrew Jacobs on his experience being a reporter in China
Chinese citizens holding up IDs and cameras, wishing to gain entrance to the guard zone at the Bo Xilai trial Andrew Jacobs has been a reporter for The New York Times since 1995. Over the years, he ha... Read More
Precarious progress: Mark Landler discusses the pivot to Asia and its future under Trump
Mark Landler has covered American foreign policy for The New York Times since the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2008, first as diplomatic correspondent, and since 2011, as White House correspondent.... Read More
Victor Cha on an emerging threat to the East: U.S. relations with the DPRK
"Army Sgt. Bradley Lones, a soldier with the United Nations Command Security Battalion, guards the border between North and South Korea Sept. 12, 2002. Lones outpost is one of many within the Demilita... Read More
Nirupama Rao on Indian diplomacy with the world’s largest economies
Nirupama Rao entered the Indian Foreign Service in 1973 and served as India's ambassador to the United States, China, and Sri Lanka, as well as India's Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011. She was the... Read More
Victor Shih on bad debt in the Chinese banking system
Victor C. Shih is associate professor at the University of California at San Diego specializing in China. He is the author of a book published by the Cambridge University Press entitled Factions and F... Read More
Jennifer deWinter on Nintendo and the Japanese video game industry
Jennifer deWinter is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and director of the Interactive Media and Game Development program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She writes about the global circulation... Read More