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Georgetown University’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues addresses business and trade-related issues and opportunities for cooperation through research, publications, public events, and dialogues that engage faculty, students, and leading stakeholders in both countries.

Since 2021, the initiative has sponsored the Chinese Politics and Economy Research Seminar (CPERS) series in partnership with the Department of Government to bring scholars to Georgetown and discuss their research on Chinese politics and political economy. This seminar is academic in nature and jointly organized by professors Ning Leng and Lizhi Liu.

From 2018 to 2019, the U.S.-China Research Group on E-Commerce and Mobile Technology brought together innovation and globalization experts from the United States and China for a structured dialogue around key academic and policy issues of interest to both countries and the world. The group met three times in Washington, DC, and Beijing to address the politics of innovation in an interdependent world.

For an overview of Georgetown’s engagement with issues of business and trade across schools and programs, visit the Global Georgetown website.

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New Book from McCourt School Assistant Professor Ning Leng Examines How Businesses in China Are Made to Serve the State

In her new book, Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China, Ning Leng reveals a hidden dimension of China’s political economy: the Chinese state has never granted businesses full autonomy. Instead, officials systematically treat firms as political instruments, extracting services that advance careers and maintain social control—often at the expense of business interests, economic efficiency and sustainable development.

Events

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2025

Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China

The Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues hosted Ning Leng for a conversation about her book, Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China (2025), which reveals how the Chinese state solicits political services from companies, resulting in an unstable

Blog Posts

Examining the Impact of the U.S.-China Trade Dispute on Technological Innovation

October 31, 2018

How has the recent trade dispute affected technological innovation or cooperation? In these blog posts, participants in the initiative's Research Group on Business and Trade offer their thoughts on recent developments and prospects for Sino-U.S. collaboration. 

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