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The Evolution of the Global Trading System: How the Rise of Asia and Next Generation Trade Will Shape the Future Economy

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This picture taken on February 8, 2020 shows Chinese workers building the first rail line linking China to Laos, a key part of Beijing's 'Belt and Road' project across the Mekong, in Luang Prabang. - From an artificial island in Sri Lanka to a bridge in Bangladesh and hydropower projects in Nepal and Indonesia, China's trillion-dollar Belt and Road plan is stuttering under the effects of the deadly coronavirus.

Navigating the Belt and Road Initiative Toolkit

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Chinese Diplomacy in Southeast Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

China’s Common Prosperity Program: Causes, Challenges, and Implications

Getting Indonesia to Net Zero

Reimagining the TPP: Revisions that Could Facilitate U.S. Reentry

The Evolution of the Global Trading System: How the Rise of Asia and Next Generation Trade Will Shape the Future Economy

Navigating the Belt and Road Initiative Toolkit

Chinese Diplomacy in Southeast Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

China’s Common Prosperity Program: Causes, Challenges, and Implications

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Decoding the 20th Party Congress

The 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will determine China’s leadership for the next five years, and be a defining moment for politics, policy, and the world.
Cure4Cancer

To accelerate the eradication of cancer (or, to find a cure for cancer), with multi-stakeholder, multi-regional collaboration, which is focused on patient-centric clinical trials and international regulatory harmonization.
Navigating the Belt and Road Initiative Toolkit

The Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) has developed a digital toolkit with the goal of ensuring that Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure projects are mutually beneficial, equitable, inclusive, and environmentally and socially sustainable.
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Chinese Diplomacy in Southeast Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Assessing China's practice of diplomacy in the region throughout 2020 and 2021.
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Raising Standards: Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Data for Inclusive Development in Southeast Asia

This publication is a compilation of two subject-matter reports on data and artificial intelligence (AI), respectively. Each report canvasses the landscape in five Southeast Asian countries.
High-level Policy Commission on Getting Asia to Net Zero

A high-level and independent commission of Asian leaders to help urgently accelerate the regional transition to net zero emissions.
The Avoidable War: An Alternative Future for U.S.-China Relations

An initiative seeking to manage distrust and conflict between the U.S. and China.
Building Trade Ties with ASEAN's Emerging Female Leaders

Professional development program for ASEAN early-career female trade experts.
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Stacking the Deck: China’s Influence in International Technology Standards Setting

Examines China’s influence in digital rule-setting and the implications for global technology competition.
Building the Chinese Carbon Market and Its Regional Connections

Works to enhance the regional and global fight against climate change through carbon market maturation and cooperation in Asia.
Supply Chains: A Shifting Indo-Pacific

Examines an emerging trend of the relocation, diversification, and reshoring of supply chains by mapping out the foreign investment policies of economies in the Indo-Pacific region.
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Southeast Asia and COVID-19

Asia Society Policy Institute and Asia Society Australia examine the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means for Southeast Asia’s future.

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Secretary Blinken on the Administration’s Policy Toward China

Ambassador Katherine Tai on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and the Administration’s Trade Agenda

The Quad in 2022: Dialogue and Disruption

Asia's Net Zero Opportunity Featuring Ban Ki-moon and Kevin Rudd

Empowering Women in ASEAN: Building Trade Ties With ASEAN’s Emerging Female Leaders

Balancing Powers: The U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit

The Philippine Elections: What Happens Now?

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Decoding the 20th Party Congress

Cure4Cancer

Navigating the Belt and Road Initiative Toolkit

Chinese Diplomacy in Southeast Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Raising Standards: Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Data for Inclusive Development in Southeast Asia

High-level Policy Commission on Getting Asia to Net Zero

The Avoidable War: An Alternative Future for U.S.-China Relations

Building Trade Ties with ASEAN's Emerging Female Leaders

Stacking the Deck: China’s Influence in International Technology Standards Setting

Building the Chinese Carbon Market and Its Regional Connections

Supply Chains: A Shifting Indo-Pacific

Southeast Asia and COVID-19

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Secretary Blinken on the Administration’s Policy Toward China

Ambassador Katherine Tai on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and the Administration’s Trade Agenda

The Quad in 2022: Dialogue and Disruption

Asia's Net Zero Opportunity Featuring Ban Ki-moon and Kevin Rudd

Empowering Women in ASEAN: Building Trade Ties With ASEAN’s Emerging Female Leaders

Balancing Powers: The U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit

The Philippine Elections: What Happens Now?

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