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

Following several research workshops sponsored by the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, Professor Evan Medeiros, Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies at the School of Foreign Service and senior fellow with the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue published Cold Rivals: The New Era of U.S.-China Strategic Competition (Georgetown University Press, August 2023), an edited volume assessing U.S.-China strategic competition with contributions from participants of the U.S.-China Research Group on Managing Strategic Competition. 

In 2019, the initiative sponsored the U.S.-China Research Group on Managing Strategic Competition to address the peace and security implications of strategic competition between the United States and China. Co-convened by Dennis Wilder of Georgetown University, Evan Medeiros of Georgetown University, and Wang Jisi of Peking University, the group brought together leading scholars in Washington, DC from the United States and China to develop a shared research agenda and joint book project on the topic.

From 2017 to 2020, former managing director Dennis Wilder, led research workshops on strategic trust between the United States and China that brought together groups of leading U.S. and Chinese scholars for dialogue and research around key academic and policy issues relating to the roles of China and the United States in the emerging international order, including in the areas of diplomacy, economics, trade, culture, environmental protection, and use of military force.

The goal of these workshops was to expand areas of common interest and to look for ways to minimize political friction between the world's largest and second-largest economies. 

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

Events

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Apple in China

Without explicitly intending to, Apple built an advanced electronics industry within China, only to discover that its massive investments in technology upgrades had inadvertently given Beijing a power that could be weaponized. In Apple in China (2025), journalist Patrick McGee draws on more than 200…

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China’s New Economic Weapons

April 8, 2025

In this article for the Washington Quarterly, Evan Medeiros examines how China is increasingly using its economic power as a tool of statecraft, employing tactics such as trade restrictions, investment controls, and financial leverage to influence other nations and advance its strategic interests.

China and Russia Will Not Be Split

April 4, 2025

In this article co-authored with Michael McFaul for Foreign Affairs, Evan Medeiros argues that U.S. efforts to drive a wedge between China and Russia are unlikely to succeed due to their deepening strategic partnership and shared interests in countering the United States.

Podcasts

Blog Posts

COVID-19 and the Future of U.S.-China Relations

April 25, 2020

As part of its U.S.-China Dialogue 2020 event series, the initiative convened leading scholars and commentators on April 16, 2020 to discuss key issues in the U.S.-China relations. This blog contains edited excerpts from the virtual event, which featured Michael Green (Georgetown University), Evan…

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Opportunities and Challenges on the Belt and Road Initiative

January 31, 2018

What are the opportunities and challenges of U.S.-China cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative? In this discussion, the initiative's student fellows examine specific areas where the United States and China have common interests for development as well as those which remain an underlying…

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