Lakshmi Iyengar

Yale University

Lakshmi (’19) is a senior at Yale University majoring in biomedical engineering. She is a 2018-2019 student fellow in the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues Student Fellows program.

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Lakshmi Iyengar | August 28, 2019

Familiarity Does Not Equate to Understanding Response

It’s been almost a year since I applied to be a U.S.-China Student Fellow. Sponsored by the Georgetown Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, the fellowship brings together students from the United States and China to discuss various…

Lakshmi Iyengar | July 11, 2019

The Need for A Race to the Top Response

2019 marks 40 years since President Jimmy Carter granted China full diplomatic recognition. In the years since then, economic and cultural exchange between the United States and China have risen beyond expectation. The past few years, however, have…

Lakshmi Iyengar | April 18, 2019

A Rebalance of Power: US- China Tensions on the Technological Front Response

China scholars are increasingly viewing China’s economic and technological progress as the beginnings of a new Cold War with the United States. If this is the case, it is a Cold War dissimilar to that between the United States and the Soviet Union…

Lakshmi Iyengar | January 1, 2019

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in U.S.-China Cooperation Response

U.S.-China relations are on a downward trend. In early November, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson spoke about the increasingly prevalent view in Washington that China’s rise has come at America’s expense. The dissatisfaction with China largely…