Chinese Business and Economics

Logan Wright argues that a slow-motion financial crisis is unfolding in China as its credit bubble unwinds. Beijing’s credibility, built on a track record of intervention in response to financial stress, is waning from rising defaults and a growing sense of risk aversion.

Field research over the last four decades has been critical to increasing the world’s understanding of China. There are many other research methods including careful reading of documents and the media, surveys, databases, scraping websites, satellite imagery, but field research provides unique learning opportunities. One would be hard-pressed to legitimately call someone who rarely if…

The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act is an ambitious investment not only for climate and clean energy technologies, but also for competition with China, writes CSIS expert Ilaria Mazzocco.

The CSIS Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics and the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI) launch the third feature of the new collaboration, Big Data China, on July 27 at 12 p.m. EST. 

Scott Kennedy, Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at CSIS, and Scott Rozelle, Co-Director of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, discuss Big Data China, a new project aimed at bridging the gap between cutting-edge academic research on China and the Washington policy community.

To make the CHIPS and Science Act effective, the United States will need to set the right goals, avoid several pitfalls, and learn from countries that have used industrial policy more constructively than China.

Artificial Intelligence and the U.S.-China Relationship Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is already playing a role in people’s daily lives through applications ranging from driver-assistance systems, to medical diagnostics and financial management. AI is a general-purpose technology that, like electricity, has the potential to deeply change and restructure many economic and social activities. However, AI’s potential…