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Jan 15, 2025 | 
csis.org | Ryan Hass |Ryan McElveen |Lily McElwee
The IssueFrictions between the United States and China are intensifying, yet even past geopolitical rivals found ways to collaborate on shared challenges where it squarely served national interests. In November 2022, the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies and the Brookings John L. Thornton China Center launched a project to explore safe and effective methods for collaboration among nonstate actors on key challenges facing both nations.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
csis.org | Jude Blanchette |Lily McElwee
This new report explores whether the United States should more clearly define the end goals for its China policy. While some argue that the United States should aim to “win” in the strategic competition against China, others advocate for a managed competition, avoiding conflict while strengthening the global rules-based order.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
csis.org | Jude Blanchette |Lily McElwee
This new report explores whether the United States should more clearly define the end goals for its China policy. While some argue that the United States should aim to “win” in the strategic competition against China, others advocate for a managed competition, avoiding conflict while strengthening the global rules-based order.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Lily McElwee
In April, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen traveled to Beijing with little fanfare. The Biden administration has kept diplomatic engagements and new working groups with Beijing relatively low-key; and their format and future, come the U.S. presidential elections this fall, is highly uncertain. Many in Washington are rightly skeptical that talking to Beijing can bring upsides for the United States.
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May 7, 2024 | 
csis.org | Scott Kennedy |Lily McElwee |Jude Blanchette
In this report, Scott Kennedy, Lily McElwee, and Jude Blanchette describe the ongoing developments in Hong Kong’s political, legal, and economic environment; likely implications for the city’s future as a global business hub; and the options available for U.S. policymakers to preserve a productive relationship that advances U.S. commercial interests while supporting the city's remaining autonomy, consistent with Beijing’s international commitments.
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May 7, 2024 | 
csis.org | Caitlin Welsh |Jude Blanchette |Lily McElwee |Ryan Hass
One of today’s most urgent challenges is rising global food insecurity. Growing populations around the world will require more food while climate change and other pressures are limiting agricultural production, including in the United States and China. At the same time, food insecurity and malnutrition are threatening human health, reducing economic output, and contributing to unrest and conflict in many countries around the world.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
csis.org | Jon B. Alterman |Lily McElwee
The world’s challenges are increasingly complex. Borders could not stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, but Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine demonstrated that the kinds of national wars that characterized the 20th century were still relevant. Ideology has faded, and the states of the Global South have grown larger and wealthier. They now expect a larger share of the global pie. While cooperation has become more necessary, the world has entered an era of increased national contestation.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
features.csis.org | Jon B. Alterman |Lily McElwee
Amid shifting global power balances, renewed international contestation, and growing transnational challenges, understanding how the world order is changing has never been more critical. CSIS has drawn from original research and a series of high-level discussions with global thought leaders to explore the evolving contours of this order, its future dynamics, and the most effective pathways for U.S. engagement.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
csis.org | Jude Blanchette |Ryan Hass |Lily McElwee
Appendix: Task Force MembersRumi Aoyama – Professor andDirector of Waseda Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies, Waseda University Jude Blanchette – Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International StudiesMathieu Duchâtel – Resident Senior Fellow for Asia and Director of International Studies, Institut MontaigneZsuzsa Anna Ferenczy – Assistant Professor, National Dong-Hwa UniversityRyan Hass –Director, John L.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
csis.org | Lily McElwee
Thursday’s summit, the first held in-person since 2019, comes at a time of heightened tensions in EU-China relations, European frustration about Chinese trade practices and Beijing’s perceived apathy to core European interests amid Russia’s war in Ukraine is broad and growing. The Xi administration, meanwhile, has warned EU leaders against advancing a de-risking agenda that could jeopardize China’s technology ambitions and economic interests.
