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.
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articleKevin Rudd suggests we light a candle for coming trade talks with China since we’ve routinely failed to see the tipping points between failed diplomacy and limited conflict and then more general war.
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articleLindsey Ford on China's exclusion from the world's largest multinational naval exercise.
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articleKevin Rudd writes about Xi Jinping's vision for the future of global governance in Project Syndicate
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interviewKevin Rudd reacts to President Trump pressuring NATO allies to pay more for defense.
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interviewWendy Cutler discusses President Trump's treatment of companies doing businesses in the U.S. and abroad following the rise in trade tensions.
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speechKevin Rudd delivered an address to the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore for The Significance of China's 2018 Central Foreign Policy Work Conference.
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articleWendy Cutler writes in The New York Times that that America’s friends and allies are now looking elsewhere on trade.
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interviewWendy Cutler is concerned that the U.S.-China trade conflict is escalating out of control.
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articleExperts, including ASPI's Anubhav Gupta on the state of the Sino-India relationship a year after the Doklam standoff.
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The country's eventual transition to liberal democracy once seemed inevitable — but Kevin Rudd argues that the country has redefined what the "end of history" really means.