Senior Fellow @SammSacks and Georgia Tech professor @peterswire assess different approaches to regulating U.S. data flows to China and analyze the costs and benefits of each.

“De-risking” is a choice of a very ambiguous word. But the word must be interpreted and given meaning, and then actions figured out, writes Director Paul Gewirtz.

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Fellow @yangyang_cheng’s essay on the “White Paper” protests and the search for language and identity has won the 2023 Society of Publishers in Asia Award for Excellence in Opinion Writing @sopasia

Senior Fellow @SRoach_econ proposes a new architecture of U.S.-China engagement that is divorced from the blame-game—something far more than a new bureaucracy.

Fellow Karman Lucero examines the importance of, and how to structure, student dialogues/engagements at law schools in the U.S. and China.

Senior Fellow @DariusLongarino ponders what the closure of Beijing LGBT Center means to China’s LGBTQ movement and civil society organizations.

The lack of communication and suspicion of intentions on each side escalate the downward spiral of U.S.-China relations, comments Senior Fellow @suea_thornton.

At @USCC_GOV hearing, Fellow @MoritzRudolf advocates a bilateral exchange of jurists to help the U.S. get a clearer sense of China’s legal system, saying real-life implementation of the law diverges from what’s on the books.

Senior Fellow @SRoach_econ proposes 3 measures to restore trust and interdependence between the U.S. and China—before it is too late.

Amorphous “national security” concerns have long had foreign and Chinese entities in fear of crossing a line unknowingly, comments Senior Fellow @ChinaLawTransl8 on China’s amended espionage law.

Two Tsinghua students sued the Ministry of Education seeking to overturn punishments they received for distributing rainbow flags on campus. Ding Yuan and Senior Fellow @DariusLongarino look at what might happen in court.

Fellow @yangyang_cheng explains how diasporic Chinese communities navigate political expression and organize events in solidarity with protesters in China.

China’s argument that modernization did not have to equal westernization, a counterargument to Biden’s autocracy vs. democracy narrative, would be well received in many developing countries, says Fellow @MoritzRudolf

Fellow @yangyang_cheng reflects on the shifts and challenges in U.S.-China academic exchange.

A recent court judgment brought the high-profile case of a chained woman in Xuzhou to a close. Senior Fellow @ChinaLawTransl8 comments on its key dimensions—human trafficking, marital rape, and the mental health situation in China.

The feminist movement in China is sustained in the diaspora, where it has found new vocabulary and connected with liberation struggles elsewhere, speaks Fellow @yangyang_cheng to a transnational crowd.

Fellow @WCH_Esq predicts the likely focus of the new NPC Standing Committee’s five-year legislative plan, which is expected to be unveiled in autumn.

In the U.S., there is a false assumption that the Chinese gov’t can require companies to share their data, says Senior Fellow Jamie Horsley on the data negotiation reality @thewirechina

When PRC officials have admitted that differential treatment of LGBTQ people in law exists, e.g., not recognizing same-sex marriage, they will explain that this suits China’s national conditions and traditional culture, remarks @DariusLongarino

Fellow @yangyang_cheng was selected as an International Strategy Forum Fellow, one of the 117 rising leaders from North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe announced at the inaugural ISF Global Summit.