Paul Haenle

on May 13, 2016

Paul Haenle holds the Maurice R. Greenberg Director’s Chair at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is a visiting senior research fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.

Prior to joining Carnegie, he served from June 2007 to June 2009 as the director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolian Affairs on the National Security Council staffs of former president George W. Bush and President Barack Obama. From June 2007 to January 2009, Haenle also played a key role as the White House representative to the U.S. negotiating team at the six-party-talks nuclear negotiations. From May 2004 to June 2007, he served as the executive assistant to the U.S. national security adviser.

Trained as a China foreign area officer in the U.S. Army, Haenle has been assigned twice to the U.S. embassy in Beijing, served as a U.S. Army company commander during a two-year tour to the Republic of Korea, and worked in the Pentagon as an adviser on China, Taiwan, and Mongolia Affairs on the staff of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Early assignments in the U.S. Army included postings in Germany, Desert Storm, Korea, and Kuwait. He retired from the U.S. Army as a lieutenant colonel in October 2009.

Why China's Nuclear Exports May Struggle to Find a Market

on May 13, 2016

China’s nuclear power industry has eyed up a big push to export its technologies as countries around the world consider low-carbon alternatives to coal.

But despite an increasingly clearer field for Chinese nuclear exports—mainly because of the woes dragging down French and Russian competitors—selling reactors abroad is likely to prove to be a much tougher task than had first been thought.

Carnegie China

on May 13, 2016

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The China in the World podcast, produced by Carnegie China, features Chinese and international experts who examine Chinese foreign policy and U.S.-China relations across Asia and beyond.

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Carnegie China brings together leading policy experts and practitioners from China and around the world to engage in collaborative dialogue and research. The center works to examine Chinese foreign policy and U.S.-China relations across Asia and beyond.

Carnegie China is part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s well-established Asia Program, which provides clear and precise analysis to policymakers on the economic, security, and political developments in the Asia-Pacific region. Carnegie China works with Carnegie’s other global centers to host conferences, roundtables, seminars, and closed-door briefings, and to publish timely and incisive analysis on the most pressing global issues, including international economics and trade; energy and climate change; nonproliferation and arms control; and security threats in North Korea, Iran, South Asia, and the Middle East.

Thomas S. Mullaney

on May 13, 2016

Thomas S. Mullaney is Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, by courtesy, at Stanford University. He is also the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress, and a Guggenheim Fellow.

He is the author or lead editor of 7 books, including The Chinese Typewriter: A History (winner of the Fairbank prize), Your Computer is on Fire, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China, and most recently The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age—the first comprehensive history of Chinese-language computing.

His writings have appeared in The Journal of Asian Studies, Technology & Culture, Aeon, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and his work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, and in invited lectures at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Ian Scoones

on May 13, 2016

Ian Scoones is a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex Institute of Development Studies. At Sussex, he is Co-Director of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre and joint convenor of the Institute of Development Studies-hosted Future Agricultures Consortium. Scoones is an agricultural ecologist whose interdisciplinary research links the natural and social sciences and focuses on the relationships between science and technology, local knowledge and livelihoods, and the politics of policy processes in the context of international agricultural, environment, and development issues.

Over the past 25 years, Scoones has worked on pastoralism and rangeland management, soil and water conservation, biodiversity and conservation, and dryland agricultural systems, largely in eastern and southern Africa. A central theme has been a focus on citizen engagement in pro-poor research and innovation systems. Most recently, he has been working on the governance of agricultural biotechnology in India and veterinary/animal health science and policy in Africa, including projects on livestock marketing and foot-and-mouth disease in southern Africa and the international responses to avian influenza.

The End of China’s Economic Miracle? A Discussion with ‘Financial Times’ Writers

A ChinaFile Presents Transcript

By George Soros, Jamil Anderlini & more on May 12, 2016

On April 20, 2016, a panel of Financial Times correspondents and editors with China experience, joined by financier and occasional FT columnist George Soros, discussed rural-to-urban migration, wage growth, real estate ups and downs, the increasing debt, and more in a conversation moderated by Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations Orville Schell, at Asia

Lucy Hornby

on May 12, 2016

Lucy Hornby is deputy bureau chief for the Financial Times in China, where she has lived and worked for almost 20 years. She covers politics, the environment and energy issues, as well as Mongolia. She has a special fondness for the mysteries of shadow banking. Prior to joining the FT, Lucy covered China for Reuters, and energy markets in Singapore and Latin America for Dow Jones and Energy Intelligence. If she ever makes it to Macao she will have reported from all of China’s provinces and regions.