China

China’s rise continues to present tremendous strategic challenges and opportunities for the United States and its allies and partners. Today, Beijing aims to connect the majority of the world’s population under the Belt and Road Initiative, dominate high-tech industry, and forge a world-class military. Despite the sustained, structural momentum behind China’s growth, increasing economic uncertainty, paired with long-term demographic challenges and tightening domestic political control, have further complicated the trajectory of Chinese power and influence in the decades ahead.

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The Global China Hub tracks Beijing’s actions and their global impacts, assessing China’s rise from multiple angles and identifying emerging China policy challenges. The Hub leverages its network of China experts around the world to generate actionable recommendations for policymakers in Washington and beyond.

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This initiative capitalizes on the breadth of the Atlantic Council’s geographic reach and expertise on China across everything from security, to energy, to technology, to the economy, to information integrity in order to provide US and allied decision-makers with strategic solutions to the vexing questions posed by China’s rise.

What happens in China no longer stays in China. China’s approach to everything, from economic reform to mounting political repression, affects its trajectory as a great power and directly impacts US and allied interests and values. China Inside Out provides cutting-edge insights into the domestic drivers of China’s external behavior to shape effective allied responses.

Emerging technologies will dominate the competition for industries of the future. At risk are not only their associated economic benefits, but the future of democracy and individual rights. Promoting policy and technological advances that bolster democratic governance and individual rights will help the US and its allies outflank rather than react to China’s techno-authoritarian efforts.

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In the News

Sep 12, 2023

Guevara in El Heraldo de Mexico on China’s asymmetric capabilities in the naval domain

By Inigo Guevara Moyano

On September 12, Transatlantic Security Initiative nonresident senior fellow Inigo Guevara authored an op-ed in El Heraldo de Mexico on China’s asymmetric capabilities in the naval domain (text in Spanish). 

China Latin America

New Atlanticist

Sep 10, 2023

Experts react: Did India’s G20 just crack the code for diplomatic consensus?

By Atlantic Council experts

The Russian and Chinese leaders were not at the summit, but that did not stop the Group of Twenty leaders from approving an eighty-three-paragraph declaration that added the African Union to the group.

Africa Brazil

In the News

Sep 9, 2023

Graham quoted by Nikkei Asia on shifts in Chinese investments in US Treasury securities and agency bonds

Read the full article here.

China Japan

In the News

Sep 9, 2023

Tran quoted by the Atlantic on China’s goals for BRICS expansion

Read the full piece here.

China International Organizations

In the News

Sep 8, 2023

Lipsky interviewed by Yahoo Finance on China’s absence from the G20 summit

Watch the full interview here.

China G20

Blog Post

Sep 8, 2023

State of the Order: Assessing August 2023

The State of the Order breaks down the month's most important events impacting the democratic world order.

Brazil China

In the News

Sep 8, 2023

Lipsky interviewed by CNN on China and Russia’s absence from the upcoming G20 summit

Watch the full interview here.

China G20

In the News

Sep 8, 2023

Lipsky interviewed by CNBC on the implications of China’s absence from the G20 summit

Watch the full interview here.

China G20

In the News

Sep 8, 2023

Webster for the China-Russia Report: A conversation on Central Asia with Niva Yau
Central Asia China

In the News

Sep 7, 2023

Tran quoted by Bloomberg on Biden’s aim to strengthen the IMF

Read the full piece here.

China G20
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Experts

Millennium fellow

Ivy Lau-Schindewolf

International Policy and Partnerships, OpenAI

Millennium Leadership Program

China Digital Policy

Fellow

Leland Lazarus

Nonresident Fellow

Global China Hub

Caribbean China

Staff

Annie (Yu-Lin) Lee

Assistant Director

Freedom and Prosperity Center

East Asia Rule of Law

Staff

Kitsch Liao

Associate Director

Global China Hub

China Security & Defense

Fellow

Keir Lieber

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

China Defense Policy

Millennium fellow

Merry Lin

Former Senior Advisor, National Economic Council, The White House

Millennium Leadership Program

China East Asia
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Events

Public Event Wed, March 25, 2026 • 8:00 am ET

How the UN can respond to the arbitrary detention and repression of Uyghurs
China Human Rights