Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Research and analysis on China’s foreign policy and role in the world.
Beijing’s focus on the real economy, coupled with the risks of capital-account liberalization, explain why the government has prioritized the renminbi as a means of payment over and above its use as an international store of value.
China come to blows over Taiwan is not necessarily Xi’s strategy for unification but the idiosyncrasies of China’s political system.
Recent visits by European officials highlight the EU’s lack of internal cohesion.
It’s necessary to identify key challenges and practical measures to reduce the incidence of security dilemmas and mitigate the impact of missile defense on the stability of the U.S.-China relations.
Newly declassified documents contain important lessons for U.S. China policy.
What are the implications of the Iran-Saudi deal for China’s international role? Can China be expected to make efforts to de-escalate the war in Ukraine? Six scholars provide their takes.
Scholars from 7 Southeast Asian countries share their takes on China’s regional engagement.
Greater engagement by the US and South Korea with China over Seoul’s growing concerns about the threat from North Korea could offer a way out of the need that some in South Korea feel to go nuclear.
The relationship between Malaysia and China is positive and productive—but sensitive issues lie under the surface.
China hopes to use two big political events to try to boost public confidence in its sprawling plan.
Will the U.S. and China remain strong trading partners despite growing restrictions and strains in their broader relationship?
Recent reports indicate that Chinese state-owned defense companies are shipping navigation equipment, jamming technology, and jet-fighter parts to sanctioned Russian government-owned defense companies.
Beijing says that over 180 countries accept its “one China principle” regarding Taiwan, but the reality is more complicated.
The dangerous and growing perception gap between the United States and China is significant enough to cause more consequential outcomes than the Ukraine war.
Blinken’s Beijing visit will be seen through a security lens, but Washington should separate its alliance from Manila from its calculations around China.
Unless the new pledges under President Marcos translate into tangible development projects, the Marcos administration risks the same criticism as Duterte.
This article compares the distinctive diplomatic, economic and security characteristics of the Trump and the Biden administrations’ Indo-Pacific strategies and argues that the latter administration crafted a more effective, albeit incomplete, strategy for advancing US interests.
Can China and India disengage from contested territories along the border?
Can Southeast Asian countries benefit from U.S.-China competition?
The “new normal” of China’s incursions across the imaginary median line down the Taiwan Strait could spin out of control and strain already tense relations between both sides.