In “China’s Evergrande is in trouble. But so is China’s top-down political economy,” featured in the Monkey Cage of the Washington Post, Jackson School and China Studies Adjunct Professor and Professor of Political Science Susan Whiting analyzes four things to know about the distortions behind the real estate crisis in China. Susan Whiting (Ph.D., Michigan;

In “Cautionary Remarks on the Emerging Bipolarity of Space Alliances: A Japanese Perspective,” Saadia Pekkanen uses the US-Japan alliance as a case study on why it is unlikely such alliances will lead to stability in the space domain. The article appears in “The New Space Age: Beyond Global Order” Fall 2021 Perry World House publication. Perry

On October 10, 2021, chair of Korea Studies, Clark Sorensen is quoted in a Portuguese language article on “‘Round 6’ success sheds light on inequality and hopelessness in South Korea: Reflections of the 1990s crisis turn the country into “Korea from Hell” for part of the population” published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paolo. The article mentions

On September 24, 2021, JSIS and China Studies Affiliate Faculty Tabitha Grace Mallory was quoted in the AP NEWS article about China’s distant water fishing fleet and its evolution in the last few decades. Dr. Mallory is the CEO of the China Ocean Institute. She holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) and an M.A. in international relations from the

On August 19, 2021, James Lin participated in the podcast series “China Rising” by Global News (Canada), in an episode titled “Taiwan, a ‘potential flashpoint’ for wider military conflict.” This episode examines growing tensions between China and Taiwan and fears that they could spiral into global conflict.

JSIS 484 – Special Topics in East Asia: Beginning Mongolian Language Fall 2021 | M – F 3:30 – 4:20 p.m. | Hybrid Instruction | SLN 23698 | Credits 1-5 Winter 2022 | Time will be announced soon | Hybrid Instruction Spring 2022 | Time and format TBD Don’t miss this unique opportunity to study

Thursday, May 19th 2021 | 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) | Online (Zoom) The UW Taiwan Studies Program, along with the UW East Asia Center and the UW Foster School of Business Global Business Center, presents an upcoming panel discussion on Taiwan Entangled in the Global Economy: Silicon, Supply Chains, Geopolitics. This panel invites three experts from

The East Asia Center (EAC), South Asia Center (SAC) and Center for Global Studies (CGS) are pleased to support the Spring Quarter 2021 Global Business Forum taught by Professor Christina Fong, in partnership with the Foster School’s Global Business Center, the School of Law’s Global Business Law Institute, and The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). The Global

Thursday, May 13, 2021 | 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. (Pacific Time) | Zoom Hosted by the Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Program. Free and open to the public. This virtual workshop will bring together scholars of the contemporary Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) for a public conversation concerning current scholarship on the effects of a

April 29th, 2021 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) | Online via Zoom The UW Center for Korea Studies will host an exciting event on April 29th. This event is supported by the East Asia Center. This presentation will discuss the ‘Aenikkaeng’ Koreans of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, and the history of their migration