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As the country with the largest population, economy, and military in Asia, China exerts tremendous influence on day-to-day developments and long-term trends related to international security, prosperity, and sustainability in the region and across the globe. As its power and influence grow, China’s rise will continue to shape power dynamics in the Asia-Pacific and raise questions about the future of regional and international order.
ASPI convenes strategic dialogues and discussions and produces reports and expert commentary to deepen understanding about China and its impact on the region, as well as expand cooperation among China, the United States, and other Asia-Pacific countries. ASPI President Kevin Rudd leads an initiative on the future of U.S.-China relations . Additionally, The China Dashboard: Tracking China’s Economic Reform Program, a joint project of the Asia Society Policy Institute and the Rhodium Group, tracks China’s progress toward its self-defined reform objectives in 10 essential economic policy clusters. And through its initiative Toward a Northeast Asia Carbon Market, ASPI provides insights into the future of sustainability in Northeast Asia and emphasizes China’s integral role.
Reports
Featured Initiatives
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A new online, interactive dashboard from ASPI and Rhodium Group, with a series of data visualizations and graphics, provides a clear and decisive gauge of China’s economic reform program under Xi Jinping.
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ASPI initiative to create a roadmap for linking the carbon markets in China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea.
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ASPI initiative, led by a high-level Policy Commission, to strengthen regional security institutions in Asia.
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ASPI initiative, led by a high-level Policy Commission, to promote economic integration in the Asia-Pacific.
Commentary
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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on the U.S. and China at a Crossroads
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China is no longer a country content with its current circumstances, ASPI President Kevin Rudd tells Japan's Asahi Shimbun.
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China’s Economic Reforms Cannot, Should Not Stop, ASPI President Kevin Rudd writes in Caixin.
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As long as the future of U.S.-China relations remain unclear, Japan's PM Shinzo Abe should work on improving China-Japan relations, says ASPI President Kevin Rudd.
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Understanding Xi Jinping's worldview—that China expects change—is a part of understanding how the rest of the region, and how the rest of the West, including the U.S., deals with China in the future, ASPI President Kevin Rudd tells Bloomberg.
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Washington and Beijing "kind of owe" their companies and their workers a return to the negotiating table, says ASPI VP Wendy Cutler.
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Kevin Rudd says Trump and Xi Jinping are leading their countries away from the 40-year-old policies that both countries have followed since the time of Deng Xiaoping and Richard Nixon.
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Kevin Rudd talks to the Sinica Podcast about how Xi Jinping constructs his worldview and elaborates on the extent to which the Chinese government’s worldview has changed, the current direction of that worldview, and how much of that can be traced to Xi.
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ASPI VP Danny Russel on the Trans-Pacific Partnership; Internet freedom; China’s “illiberal turn”; espionage and intellectual property theft; the AIIB; and the current state of the U.S.-China relationship.
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Wendy Cutler writes that Tokyo will worry about U.S. right to veto pacts with nonmarket economies, such as China