China
Jacob Stokes Discusses China with the Jeff Santos Show
May 7, 2012
Listen here to Policy Analyst Jacob Stokes on the Jeff Santos Show discussing China. Jeff Santos – Jacob Stokes – 5-4-12
On Chen Affair, Stop Blaming Americans
By Jacob Stokes and Nina Hachigian May 4, 2012 | Center for American Progress Action Fund Chen Guangcheng’s fate is still unclear. The blind lawyer for China’s poor is still in a hospital in Beijing. Yesterday he called into a congressional hearing to express his desire come to the United States, and today Secretary of [...]
Protecting Chen Guangcheng, Pushing Reform in China
May 1, 2012
Human rights concerns and the status of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng top the agenda as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner fly to Beijing for a yearly dialogue on strategic and economic issues. Chen is reportedly holed up in the U.S. embassy, where he took refuge after escaping from house [...]
Jacob Stokes Cited In Taipei Times On U.S.-Taiwan Relationship
March 15, 2012
“The new report, written by policy analyst Jacob Stokes and Nina Hachigian, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, insists that US conservatives -continue to falsely accuse the Obama administration of “abandoning” Taiwan.”
“U.S.-China Relations in an Election Year” — Joint NSN-CAP Action Fund Report
March 13, 2012
Washington, D.C. – This morning the White House took the first step toward a full-fledged trade case against China by requesting “consultations” on rare earth exports at the World Trade Organization. Four other trade issues are also percolating, and the presidential campaign is bringing both trade and security issues into sharp relief. Against that backdrop, [...]
Meeting China’s Next Leader
February 14, 2012
Both the U.S. and China will go through leadership transitions in 2012. Whoever leads each country, a U.S.- China relationship based on mutual interests and mutual respect will remain as important to our security and economic interests as it has been since President Nixon’s epochal trip to Beijing 40 years ago this month. This week, [...]
China’s Currency in Context
October 4, 2011
Last night the Senate voted to bring to the floor a blunt, last-ditch measure aimed at pressuring China to revalue its currency, which has been rising but only at a painfully slow rate. While a faster appreciation is in the interest of both the U.S. and China – the issue is not zero-sum – many [...]
Maturing the U.S.-China Relationship
May 9, 2011
Today leaders from the U.S. and China meet in Washington for the annual U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. There will be no dramatic breakthroughs — instead, as Brookings’s Eswar Prasad writes, the relationship moving forward should focus on “methodical if slow progress rather than on resolving major conflicts or arriving at dramatic breakthroughs.” The talks [...]
The China Economy Challenge
January 19, 2011
Today President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao meet with 18 American and Chinese business leaders to discuss economic and trade policy. The meeting takes place amid an American domestic climate that increasingly sees Chinese economic power as a threat to America. A Pew Research Center poll found that “Americans by a margin of 60% [...]
China: Toward Cooperation and Competition
January 18, 2011
Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives in Washington today. After a year in which military relations were suspended and ties were strained across the board, the U.S. and China are looking for ways to cooperate on global challenges such as combating terrorism, curbing nuclear proliferation, addressing climate change, global pandemics, and economic crises. Security experts and [...]
