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Hao Chen, Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, answers questions about his forthcoming paper “China’s Diffusion-Forward AI Strategy: Chatbots, Robots, and Political Economic Possibilities,” co-authored by Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
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In a new Ash Center policy brief, Fellow Wenchi Yu details why Chinese businesses, subject to privacy and national security scrutiny, need to rethink how they add value to communities when they operate in the U.S.
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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.
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David Dapice, senior economist with the Ash Center’s Myanmar Program, on the recent coup and its implications
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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.
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From selective competition and collaboration to climate change, experts Anthony Saich and Edward Cunningham share guidance on shaping new US-China policy
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In a new book, Ash Center Director Tony Saich stitches together an untold story from the early years of the Chinese Communist Party
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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.
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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.