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

How has the large community of Chinese international affairs experts viewed the United States over the past two decades, and how have major events affected their views of America? A group of scholars…

The major Chinese industrial policy for semiconductors has been the 2014 Mega Project that continues to this day. In a recent paper, Douglas Fuller examines the effectiveness of China’s major…

Weak bureaucratic capacity impedes the ability of a state to increase its fiscal capacity, particularly when faced a fiscal demand shock during wartime. In this talk, Xiaobo Lv of the University of…

Discussions on the future of work emphasize the negative effects of labor-replacing technology on employment and wages. However, original surveys and field research show that Chinese manufacturing…

Most authoritarian regimes are rife with corruption, leading to the widespread view that autocrats have little interest in curbing government wrongdoing. Yet meaningful anti-corruption campaigns by…

China's high-speed railway network is one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history. Despite global media coverage, little is known about the political process that led the government to…