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Answering the big questions about China’s future and its changing role in the world

How do China’s politics and policies continue to evolve in the 21st century? Can the country continue to make both economic strides and achieve sustainable development goals? How will China’s growing influence be felt in the global community?

These are the pressing questions that our scholars at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia work every day to answer. Explore the events, research, and commentary below to learn more about our work.

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Orange Skies in Beijing
Photo of Beijing with an orange sky due to smog.

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Orange Skies in Beijing

A spring sandstorm and worsening air pollution came to a head last week in Beijing, causing the city and surrounding area to become enveloped in an orange smog. To better understand the storm and its impact on the environment, Chinese citizens and government, the Ash Center sat down with Jesse Turiel, Ash Center China Energy Postdoctoral Fellow.

Challenges for Biden: Sustainable Economic Recovery and China
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Challenges for Biden: Sustainable Economic Recovery and China

As President-elect Biden prepares to take office, we sat down with Edward Cunningham, the director of the Ash Center’s China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School to discuss how the friction in the U.S.-China relationship might impact America’s economic recovery, and steps that the incoming administration can take to constructively engage with Beijing.

Advice to the New Administration on China

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Advice to the New Administration on China

From selective competition and collaboration to climate change, experts Anthony Saich and Edward Cunningham share guidance on shaping new US-China policy

Finding Allies and Making Revolution

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Finding Allies and Making Revolution

In a new book, Ash Center Director Tony Saich stitches together an untold story from the early years of the Chinese Communist Party

China’s economic recovery foretells unlikely growth in U.S. jobs
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China’s economic recovery foretells unlikely growth in U.S. jobs

The Ash Center sat down with Edward Cunningham and Philip Jordan, authors of Our Path to “New Normal” in Employment? Sobering Clues from China and Recovery Scores for U.S. Industry, a new report examining China’s post COVID-19 economic recovery in an effort to better understand what might lay ahead for America’s own attempts to rebuild from the economic destruction wrought by the pandemic.

An Uncertain Future for Hong Kong

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An Uncertain Future for Hong Kong

With the National Party Congress, China’s annual legislative session, concluded, the Ash Center sat down with Director Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, to discuss a new security law that could define the future of Beijing’s relationship with Hong Kong.