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China's Economy

We examine China's economic policies, growth trajectory, and global implications, as well as opportunities and challenges on a world stage, aimed at fostering informed decision-making and constructive engagement for more stable economic competition.

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Books

Competitive Antiliberalism: How Geoeconomics, Security, and Values Define Chinese and American Worldviews in the 2020s and Beyond

June, 2025 by Rana Mitter

Policy Briefs

Cutting Through Narratives on Chinese Arctic Investments

Jun. 23, 2025 by Anders Edstrøm, Guðbjörg Ríkey Th. Hauksdóttir and P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Presentations

Lessons from the Front Lines of the U.S.-China Relationship

Apr. 30, 2025 by Nicholas Burns
Event Summary

Escaping Thucydides’s Trap in China-U.S. Relations

Feb. 17, 2025

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Competitive Antiliberalism: How Geoeconomics, Security, and Values Define Chinese and American Worldviews in the 2020s and Beyond

June, 2025 by Rana Mitter

Books

from U.S. China Relations

Cutting Through Narratives on Chinese Arctic Investments

Jun. 23, 2025 by Anders Edstrøm, Guðbjörg Ríkey Th. Hauksdóttir and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

Policy Briefs

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

33 min read

Lessons from the Front Lines of the U.S.-China Relationship

Apr. 30, 2025 by Nicholas Burns

Presentations

from U.S. China Relations

Escaping Thucydides’s Trap in China-U.S. Relations

Feb. 17, 2025

Event Summary

from Munich Security Conference 2025

Navigating China’s Opportunistic Approach to Overseas Naval Base Acquisition

November 2023 by Maxwell Simon and Jayaram Ravi

Reports & Papers

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105), front, and the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10), rear, conduct joint operations with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Akebono (DD-108) in the South China Sea

"Wars without Gun Smoke": Global Supply Chains, Power Transitions, and Economic Statecraft

Fall 2023 by Ling S. Chen and Miles M. Evers

Article

from International Security

"Speaking of Leaks," cartoon, Independent, January 29, 1917.

The Peril of Peaking Powers: Economic Slowdowns and Implications for China’s Next Decade

Summer 2023 by Michael C Beckley

Article

from International Security

Flowers bloom around graves of World War I soldiers prior to a foundation laying ceremony at Loos British Cemetery in Loos-en-Gohelle, France, Thursday, May 4, 2023.

Collective Resilience: Deterring China’s Weaponization of Economic Interdependence

Summer 2023 by Victor Cha

Article

from International Security