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Event Recap: Has the Sleeping Dragon Woken Up? A Workshop on U.S.-China Tech Competition and Collaboration

Feb 4, 2025 - Senior Tech Fellow Mark Cohen hosted speakers to analyze data to understand U.S. & China competitiveness and collaboration
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A Closer Look: Trade

Trade experts Deborah Elms and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama on tariffs and other U.S. trade policies targeting friend and foe, plus their impact on consumers, companies, and governments in Asia and Europe.
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Asia Game Changer West Awards Gala

Look back at photographs and videos from the past years.
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The Rise of CCP Young Elites and Xi Jinping’s “Tsinghua New Army”

Guoguang Wu analyzes CCP cadres born in the 1980s, highlighting their shared characteristics, the prominence of Tsinghua University graduates, and Xi Jinping’s organizational efforts to cultivate young elites for Party leadership.
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Breakfast with Yuriko Koike (Recap)

On January 20, 2025, Asia Society Policy Salon Tokyo welcomed Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike to share Tokyo’s vision for a sustainable and innovative future.
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Scholar Jing Qian on Right-Sizing China’s Economy in the Age of Trump and DeepSeek

Jing Qian explores the structural challenges constraining China’s economic growth, examines the state of U.S.-China trade and technological competition, and identifies potential areas for collaboration.
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Economy Watch: Japan, China, India

In three 12-minute conversations, get updated by Yumiko Murakami, Alicia García Herrero, and Garima Mohan on what to expect for the economies of Japan, China, and India.
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Mass Killings in China Are Testing the Limits of Control

Lizzi C. Lee writes on the recent acts of violence in China and their implications for the Chinese Communist Party.
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U.S.-China Cancer Trial Collaboration: Political and Regulatory Challenges and the Path Forward

Patrick Beyrer analyzes the political and regulatory challenges to U.S.-China collaboration and provides policy recommendations for how to expedite the harmonization of cancer clinical trials.
Asia Society seeks applications for 2025 Osborn Elliott Journalism Prize

The $10,000 cash award will recognize the best piece of journalism on Asia published during calendar year 2024.
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Analysis: Record Surge of Clean Energy in 2024 Halts China’s CO2 Rise

Lauri Myllyvirta analyzes the record surge of clean energy in 2024 and how it halts China’s CO2 rise.
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Event Recap: Executive Roundtable on Insights and Analysis on the Future of US and China

Jan 23, 2025 - Recap from Program 8 of 8 in our 2025 Seeking Truth Through Facts U.S.-China Program Series