Patrick Lozada

on March 10, 2022

Patrick Lozada is the Director of Global Policy at the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). TIA is a U.S.-based industry association which advocates for companies that enable high-speed communications networks and develops standards for the ICT sector.

Prior to this role, he was a Director in the China Practice of Albright Stonebridge Group, a strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Lozada managed the U.S.-China Business Council’s work on automotive policy from the Council’s Shanghai office. He worked as a consultant in Beijing and Shanghai, and in communications at a lobbying organization in Washington, D.C. He first went to China in 1997 and spent seven years living, studying, and working in the country.

Lozada holds a B.A. from Haverford College, an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a certificate in Chinese studies from the Hopkins Nanjing Center at Nanjing University. He serves as a member of the Haverford College Corporation, the U.S.-China Futures Project, and the American National Standards Institute’s International Policy Advisory Group.

The Uncompromising Ai Weiwei

By Orville Schell on March 10, 2022

As I read 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, I felt as if I’d finally come upon the chronicle of modern China for which I’d been waiting since I first began studying this elusive country six decades ago. What makes this memoir so absorbing is that it traces China’s tumultuous recent history through the eyes of its most renowned 20th-century poet, Ai Qing, and his son, Ai Weiwei, now equally renowned in the global art world. It guides us from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist era in the 1930s, through Mao Zedong’s revolution in the 1950s and 1960s, and on to the “reform era” of Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s and Xi Jinping’s current Leninist restoration, explaining how, as Ai Weiwei writes, “the whirlpool that swallowed up my father upended my life too, leaving a mark on me that I carry to this day.”

Remembering Jonathan Spence

A ChinaFile Conversation

By Pamela Kyle Crossley, Sherman Cochran & more on March 2, 2022

A few weeks after Jonathan Spence, the celebrated historian of China, died at Christmas, ChinaFile began collecting reminiscences from his classmates, doctoral students, and colleagues spanning the five decades of his extraordinary career as a scholar, teacher, and author.

China’s Calculus on the Invasion of Ukraine

A ChinaFile Conversation

By Paul Haenle, Bonnie S. Glaser & more on March 2, 2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the response from much of the international community has been swift and coordinated, with sanctions, shipments of armaments, and loud condemnation. China, however, has stayed markedly apart. What does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine mean for China? Where are the places to look for a clearer picture of how China’s position on the war is likely to evolve?

Kenton Thibaut

on March 1, 2022

Kenton Thibaut is a Resident China Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DRFLab) based in Washington, D.C., where her research focuses on Chinese digital influence operations.

Prior to joining DFRLab, she served as an Associate at GreenPoint Group, a boutique strategic advisory firm in Washington, D.C. where she conducted analysis in Chinese and English on the implications of Chinese policies on client interests vis-à-vis U.S.-China commercial and foreign relations.

Thibaut possesses professional fluency in Mandarin. She also has a strong research background supported by various fellowships, including a Fulbright Fellowship, Blakemore Freeman Fellowship, and Boren National Security Fellowship. She was also recently named as a 2021 Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project.

Thibaut holds a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in international economics and China studies, and completed a Graduate Certificate in Chinese Studies at the Hopkins Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China.

She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Georgetown University, where she focuses on China’s role in the global information environment and implications for democratic resilience.

Johanna S. Ransmeier

on March 1, 2022

Johanna S. Ransmeier (任思梅) is a social and legal historian of modern China. She is currently an Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago where she also serves on the faculty board of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights. Her current research investigates the expansion of legal literacy and the development of a Chinese legal imagination during times of revolutionary change. In this project, she asks what happens when citizens’ legitimate expectations of the law get ahead of the ability of legal institutions to deliver on the promise of new legislation or legal innovations. What makes the law a site of both soaring aspiration and crushing disappointment? She also studies the surprising ways crime and the law intersect with family life. Her first book, Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China (Harvard University Press, 2017), exposed the transactional foundations of traditional family structures and the role of human trafficking in late Qing and Republican China. Ransmeier received her doctorate in Chinese History from Yale University and is a graduate of Amherst College. She was a fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Public Intellectuals Program and a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.