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Trade Nov 27, 2018 Snapshot

There Is No Grand Bargain With China

Any agreement between Trump and Xi in Buenos Aires will have no long-lasting effect on the slide toward a high-stakes geopolitical competition between the United...

Ely Ratner

U.S. President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, November 2017.

U.S. Foreign Policy July/August 2018 Response

Did America Get China Wrong?

Experts from both the United States and China weigh in on Kurt Campbell and Ely Ratner’s March/April article about U.S. China policy.

Wang Jisi; J. Stapleton Roy; Aaron Friedberg; Thomas Christensen and Patricia Kim; Joseph S. Nye, Jr.; Eric Li; Kurt M. Campbell and Ely Ratner

Obama and Xi in Washington, September 2015

Trade Mar 22, 2018 Snapshot

A Better Way to Challenge China on Trade

A healthy combination of strong political will in Washington and American leadership abroad can parry China’s unfair advantages without doing significant collateral...

Matthew P. Goodman and Ely Ratner

U.S. President Donald Trump, surrounded by business leaders and administration officials, prepares to sign a memorandum on intellectual property tariffs on high-tech goods from China, at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 2018.

The Best of 2018 March/April 2018 Essay

The China Reckoning

Washington should focus more on its own power and behavior, and the power and behavior of its allies and partners. Basing policy on a more realistic set of assumptions...

Kurt M. Campbell and Ely Ratner

The era of good feelings: Xi and Obama in China, September 2016.

U.S. Foreign Policy July/August 2017 Essay

Course Correction

China is getting perilously close to seizing total control over the South China Sea. The United States needs to take swift and aggressive action to stop it.

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Troublemaker: a Chinese ship harassing a U.S. one in the South China Sea, March 2009.

Economic Development Nov 23, 2014 Snapshot

China Scores

Nearly two centuries after it lost its traditional place at the center of Asian affairs, Beijing has begun giving shape and substance to its renewed leadership on the...

Matthew Goodman and Ely Ratner

A Chinese flag flutters in front of a construction site in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, November 7, 2014.

Sanctions Aug 18, 2014 Snapshot

Pointless Punishment

The United States will have to face the reality that further Russian isolation might be more costly than it is worth. In particular, further U.S.-led sanctions will...

Ely Ratner and Elizabeth Rosenberg

People stand in heavy rain near Shanghai's financial district, August 18, 2014.

Obama Administration May/June 2014 Essay

Far Eastern Promises

Asia is going to command ever more attention and resources from the United States, thanks to the region’s growing prosperity and influence and the enormous challenges...

Kurt M. Campbell and Ely Ratner

Change your perspective: A worker cleans the windows of a building in Beijing's central business district, April 4, 2007.

Grand Strategy January/February 2013 Response

Smart Shift

A recent essay by Robert Ross characterized the Obama administration's "pivot" to Asia as a hostile, knee-jerk response to Chinese aggression. But the shift was not...

Shawn Brimley and Ely Ratner

Political Development September/October 2011 Essay

Tokyo's Transformation

Japan is undergoing profound changes that are empowering its political leadership at the expense of its bureaucracy. But rather than bringing about a clean transfer of...

Eric Heginbotham, Ely Ratner, and Richard J. Samuels

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There Is No Grand Bargain With China

Did America Get China Wrong?

A Better Way to Challenge China on Trade

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Pointless Punishment

Far Eastern Promises

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