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

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

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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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29

2026

Outsourcing Surveillance: Online Opinion Management in China Event

Digital technology facilitates information sharing among activists; however, it also affords autocrats new vectors of control, allowing them to surveil and subjugate dissenters. Yet, in China—the world’s most powerful autocratic state where most of the dissent takes place online before spilling over…

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Oct
28

2026

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism Event

Oct
26

2026

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

Oct
21

2026

China’s Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II Event

Sep
30

2026

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

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The Case for Talking to China is Not a Case for Détente

In this op-ed for the Financial Times, Evan Medeiros argues that U.S.-China summits may be valuable for reducing miscalculation and managing competition but should not be mistaken for long-term strategic stability.

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”!

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