Western media presence in China has been vastly reduced since February 2020, the consequence both of political tensions and the Covid-19 pandemic. As the Chinese government finally begins to dismantle its “zero-Covid” policy in December 2022, t

U.S. Human Rights Policy Towards China – Amy Gadsden

Apr 8th, 2022 1h 54m

While the Chinese government’s actions in Xinjiang and Hong Kong lately have been the subject of particular scrutiny from U.S. policymakers, systematic attention to China’s human rights practices, more broadly, has been a consistent feature of

China's Overseas NGO Law – Mark Sidel

Dec 15th, 2021 2h 8m

In recent years, and especially under the administration of Xi Jinping, the Chinese government has “securitized” all manner of relationships between its citizens and outsiders. An important marker of this trend, which continues to generate inte

China's Rise and IR Theory – Yan Xuetong

Nov 16th, 2020 1h 22m

No foreign policy topic currently garners more attention in the United States than its relationship with China, especially in light of China’s rise over the past few decades as an economic, technological, military, and strategic power and rival

China’s Domestic Security Under Xi Jinping – Sheena Chestnut Greitens

Jun 2nd, 2020 2h 6m

One of the hallmarks of Xi Jinping’s tenure as China’s leader, since 2012, has been the notable strengthening of the state’s coercive architecture, through which it endeavors to control Chinese society. In particular, Xi Jinping’s administrati

Unpacking the Present Crisis in US-China Relations – Ryan Hass

Dec 6th, 2019 1h 21m

Whatever the likelihood or implications of a potential truce in the US-China trade war, it seems clear that the overall relationship between the two countries has lately entered into a new, more harder-edged phase, defined by competition and pe

The Rule of Law in Hong Kong (Part Two) – Johannes Chan

Oct 24th, 2019 2h 9m

Dramatic protests in Hong Kong over the past four months, initially over a now-withdrawn draft law that would permit extraditions to mainland China, have brought to worldwide attention broader fears amongst Hong Kong residents that their city i

The Rule of Law in Hong Kong (Part One) – Johannes Chan

Jun 15th, 2019 1h 19m

Dramatic protests in Hong Kong this month, over a draft law that would permit extraditions to mainland China, underscore broader fears amongst Hong Kong residents that their city is losing its distinctive legal and political characteristics, th

How to Be a Sensitive China Watcher – Kaiser Kuo

May 24th, 2019 1h 47m

Today, the reality and consequences of China’s rise have come to dominate news headlines the world over. Along with China’s growing wealth and power have come new tensions, with the United States and other countries, that further require bette

Chinese Governance Under Xi Jinping – Victor Shih

Apr 26th, 2019 1h 54m

Despite little foreshadowing before he took office, President Xi Jinping has emerged as perhaps the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. This was reinforced in March 2018 when China’s National People’s Congress voted overwhelmingly t

Diagnosing China's State-led Capitalism – Yasheng Huang

Apr 12th, 2019 1h 47m

As Chinese economic growth slows to its lowest rate in 30 years, there is rising concern (including among some Chinese scholars and officials) about the long-term viability of China's distinctive form of state-led capitalism, sometimes characte

Local Governance and Accountability in China – Dan Mattingly

Apr 4th, 2019 1h 6m

How do autocratic regimes secure political obedience, and implement unpopular policies, without always resorting to outright coercive tactics? In a provocative new book, Yale University political scientist Dan Mattingly argues that, in China,

Property Rights and Economic Development in China – Susan Whiting

Mar 22nd, 2019 1h 5m

At least since China’s 1994 fiscal and tax reforms, land-backed development has served as the greatest source of revenue for Chinese local governments—potentially almost 1 trillion US dollars in total this year—as well as a powerful engine both

The Evolution of Workers’ Rights in China – Mary Gallagher

Mar 14th, 2019 1h 19m

Economic reform since the late 1970s, as well as the dynamics of globalization unleashed in full by China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, have significantly complicated the relationship between the Chinese Party-state and Chi

Rights Lawyering in China – Teng Biao

Mar 6th, 2019 1h 29m

Over the past 16 years, there has emerged in China a community of self-identified "rights defense" (weiquan) lawyers, akin to "cause lawyers" in the United States, who select cases and frame legal advocacy with a goal of achieving wider societa

Gender Inequality in China – Yun Zhou

Feb 26th, 2019 53m 1s

Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that “women hold up half the sky,” and there are many ways in which women’s status, rights, and opportunities have improved under CCP rule. That said, patriarchal ideas about the role of women have continued to

China’s One-Child Policy – Wang Feng

Feb 19th, 2019 1h 28m

The Chinese government is currently in the process of dismantling the family planning policies which it introduced in the 1970s, and developed alongside its program of reform & opening over the past 40 years—which are most famously associated w

Taiwan and the Global Order – Shelley Rigger

Feb 13th, 2019 1h 53m

What explains Taiwan’s outsized presence in our news headlines, especially over the first two years of the Trump administration? What can be learned from its raucous process of democratization over the past thirty years? How will it continue

Overreach and Overreaction: The Crisis in US-China Relations – Susan Shirk

Feb 7th, 2019 1h 20m

The following is a live recording of the 2019 Annual Public Lecture at Penn’s CSCC delivered by Susan Shirk, and introduced by the Center’s Director, Avery Goldstein. The event took place on January 31, 2019. Music credit: "Salt" by Poppy Ackr

Civil Society and Civic Engagement in China – Bin Xu

Nov 5th, 2018 1h 35m

Amidst various commentaries on the 10th anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake, this past summer, a prominent theme has been the sense of possibility for civil society in China that was initially generated by the outpouring of social volunteeris

Internet Culture and Politics in China – Guobin Yang

Oct 9th, 2018 1h 19m

Current headlines about how authoritarian regimes have come to harness and even weaponize the internet may obscure how this technology, at one time, was more typically understood to be a democratizing force, across a range of different contexts

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – Natalie Lichtenstein

Jul 2nd, 2018 1h 33m

Launched by China in June 2015, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ("AIIB") currently has eighty-six members and, with $100 billion in capital, has lent around $4 billion to infrastructure projects throughout Asia. The AIIB's very creatio

China & North Korea Relations – John Park

May 8th, 2018 59m 31s

As the nuclear standoff between North Korea and the United States dominates global headlines, the relationship between North Korea and China, though little understood, has attracted ever greater interest. In this episode, the Harvard Kennedy Sc

China's Economy & The 19th Party Congress – Damien Ma

Mar 29th, 2018 1h 8m

China's economy is currently the world's second largest, by GDP, and is generally expected to overtake the U.S. economy within the next decade. In this episode, the Paulson Institute's Damien Ma, a leading expert on Chinese economic trends, dis

Chinese Politics & The 19th Party Congress – Joseph Fewsmith

Dec 20th, 2017 1h 29m

China’s 19th Party Congress, held in October 2017, drew significant anticipation and attention, not only among professional China watchers, for its domestic meaning and foreign policy signals, at a time when the PRC is staking out a new role on