Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues

Call for Applications: 2026-2027 U.S.-China Student Dialogue

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Georgetown Brings Together U.S. and Chinese Students for Dialogue during the 2025-2026 Academic Year

Podcast: China’s Global Health Engagement in Africa

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The Georgetown Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues is a university platform for engagement among scholars, students, and practitioners to advance dialogue and promote solutions to global challenges ranging from climate change to peace and security.

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Sep
30

2026

Opportunities and Challenges for Multinational Companies in China amidst a Changing World Event

China remains one of the world’s most important markets, while multinational companies are operating in an increasingly complex environment shaped by changing economic conditions, intensifying market competition, evolving regulations, and developments in U.S.-China economic and trade relations…

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Oct
26

2026

Simmering Seas: Escalation and De-escalation in China's Maritime Disputes Event

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Joanna Lewis Mentors Postdoctoral Fellows Advancing Research in Energy, Climate Policy and China

Initiative faculty member Joanna Lewis has spent several years mentoring postdocs at Georgetown through the School of Foreign Service's Science, Technology and International Affairs Program. Check out this interview with Lewis and her former fellows to explore their findings and reflections on their collaborative mentorship experience.

Georgetown Professor Wins Book Award for “Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China”

Congratulations to Ning Leng for winning the 2026 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for her recent book “Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China”!

China's Legal Weapon

In this article for Foreign Affairs, Mark Jia examines the build out of China's "legal power" as an instrument of statecraft and its implications for the international order.

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