Yun Sun, director of the China Program and co-director of the East Asia Program at the Stimson Center, emphasizes that for China, this is a year of economic recovery – to regroup, to restore the economy, and to rebuild China's economic ties with the rest of the world.

China's economic decentralization has been a key factor in its economic success. Local governments have been given a great deal of autonomy in economic decision-making, which has led to a competitive environment and a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem. Professor Keyu Jin unpacks how political centralization combining with economic decentralization fueled China’s economic growth.

China's economic progress has been remarkable, but the West often misunderstands the nuances behind it, according to Dr. Keyu Jin, Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The United States and China are politically opposite, but economically competitive and globally collaborative. Dr. Keyu Jin of the London School of Economics and Political Science argues that this new era of competitive collaboration can be a sustainable model for the future, but it requires both countries to focus on specific issues, embrace opportunities for foreign companies, and avoid a narrow national security lens.

As the highest-level visit to Beijing in three years comes to a close, we examine the outcomes and consequences after years of stalemate in the bilateral relationship. James Chau speaks in this special interview with Max Baucus.

Ted Carpenter, a Senior Fellow with the Randolph Bourne Institute, discusses the impacts of China containment policies in East Asia.

It will take more than top-level talks for China and the U.S. to find common ground and address important issues, says Ted Carpenter, a Senior Fellow with the Randolph Bourne Institute – the underlying problems must be addressed at a different level.

Ted Carpenter, a Senior Fellow with the Randolph Bourne Institute, discusses new efforts to expand the U.S. and Europe’s influence in East Asia and its impacts in the region.