Global China Hub

An overview of China’s discourse power activities in the Global South, including the regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. It outlines the processes through which China leverages its diplomatic, media, and political positions in these regions to gain influence, and assesses the impacts of these activities for democratic resilience worldwide.

Chinese markets are in flux as they react to a domestic COVID outbreak, defaults by Chinese property developers, regulatory crackdowns against Chinese firms, and rising political risk associated with China’s alignment with Russia. The recent statement from the Financial Stability and Development Committee aims to stabilize this.

Shaojin Chai joins us to discuss China’s reliance on soft power to develop favorable influence throughout the MENA region.

On April 18, 2022, Global China Hub senior fellow Michael Schuman published an article in The Atlantic, “China’s Costly Exceptionalism”. “‘Zero COVID’ may ultimately serve as a lesson for Beijing in the perils of exceptionalism. Americans have come to realize that their own belief in their nation’s mission comes with great cost in lives, money, […]

On April 19, 2022, Global China Hub nonresident senior fellow John K. Culver and CSIS China Power Project director Bonny Lin published an article in Foreign Policy, “China’s Taiwan Plans May Get Faster and Deadlier”. In the article, Culver and Lin argue that it is possible that the Ukraine conflict “may introduce some near-term uncertainty […]

On March 18, 2022, Global China Hub senior director David Shullman was quoted in Washington Post’s article, “Biden warns China not to help Russia on Ukraine”. “This war is a massive disruption at a terrible time for China,” said Shullman. “Beijing doesn’t know how this will end. … They don’t see an opportunity right now […]

An overview of China’s discourse power activities in the Global South, including the regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. It outlines the processes through which China leverages its diplomatic, media, and political positions in these regions to gain influence, and assesses the impacts of these activities for democratic resilience worldwide.

A joint report that reveals how the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has significant investments in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where indigenous peoples have been subjected to what international legislators, legal scholars, and advocates have determined to be a genocide.

Cooperation between the US and the EU is essential if they are to develop effective responses to the challenges presented by China. However, there has been a lack of coordination in recent years. Nevertheless, this paper argues there is now an opportunity under the Biden Administration for the United States and Europe to learn from each other and harmonize some of their China-related efforts. 

To counter the increasing threat from China’s assertive foreign policy and growing nuclear capabilities, Matthew Kroenig outlines a strategy for Washington and allies to reliably deter Chinese strategic attack.

Over the past eight months, teams from the Atlantic Council and Rhodium Group have taken a dive into China’s economy to address a fundamental question: Is China becoming more or less like other open-market economies? 

China presents the United States and its partners with the most serious set of challenges they have faced since the Cold War. To manage this challenge, transatlantic nations need a blueprint to build a common approach.