China: The Struggle at the Top

By Andrew J. Nathan on February 9, 2017

The Chinese were gloating over the flaws of the American political system long before the election of Donald J. Trump. Coming from an obsessively orderly system, they were again and again baffled by an institutional setup that flips control from party to party every four or eight years, bestows supreme power on novices like a former one-term governor who owned a baseball team and a one-term senator with prior experience in a state legislature, and allows each new ruling group to undo the policies of its predecessor.

How Trump Could Already Be Affecting Monetary Policy in China

By Silvia Amaro on February 8, 2017

Chinese officials might be trying to drain liquidity from their economy but the central bank remains fearful of raising interest rates too quickly, according to one strategist who suggests President Donald Trump might be indirectly influencing policy in the country.

Economy, Politics
U.S.-China Relations, Donald Trump, Interest Rates, Foreign Reserves, Monetary Policy

How China’s Insatiable Demand for Timber Threatens Congo’s Rainforests

A China in Africa Podcast

By Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more on February 8, 2017

In this episode, award-winning Shanghai-based environmental journalist Shi Yi joins Eric and Cobus to discuss the emerging crisis over the illegal trade of Congolese bloodwood. She recently reported on how surging demand in China is fueling widespread illegal logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.).

Zhao Tong

on February 8, 2017

Tong Zhao is a fellow in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program based at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy. His research focuses on strategic security issues, including nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, missile defense, strategic stability, and China’s security and foreign policy.

Zhao was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow with the Managing the Atom Project and the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.

He has held a number of other positions, including as a nonresident WSD-Handa Fellow at Pacific Forum CSIS and working for the Office of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality. He currently serves on the Executive Board of the International Student/Young Pugwash.