Join the East Asia Center along with the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies for this panel discussion with Wang Feng, University of California Irvine, and Yong Cai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill along with UW faculty James Lin and Sara Curran. From Malthus’s

There are MANY excellent reasons to pursue the MAIS in East Asia. This includes the choice of focusing your studies in one of four tracks including China, Japan, Korea, or Taiwan.  We have over 55 faculty focused on East Asia topics and the degree has a one and two year option. Read about MORE great

Following President Trump’s accusations that Beijing is stealing U.S. jobs and manipulating Chinese currency, professor of international studies and China expert David Bachman gives an interview with KOMO radio on latest tensions between China-U.S. relations. He asserts: “A number of preliminary steps have been taken by the White House to suggest the issue of trade is not

Ph.D. Candidate Yan Gu argues that Trump’s authoritarian, strongman style and image as a billionaire and pragmatist coupled with Chinese aversion to political correctness appeals to Chinese Internet users in her article “Why Do Chinese Netizens Love Donald Trump?“ Yan Gu’s research focuses on authoritarian politics and primarily focuses on China.

In 2013, BRICS business leaders announced plans to construct a $185 million submarine cable connecting Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. However, more than three years later, the BRICS cable has not come to fruition, presumably due to intra-bloc political differences and challenging domestic economic positions. China is filling the vacuum left by the

Professor David Bachman, an expert on international political economy, Asian politics, international relations and U.S. – China Relations, was interviewed by KING 5 News following President Trump’s decision to back out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP was signed by 12 countries that border the Pacific Ocean that represent roughly 40 percent of the world’s economic

Professor Saadia Pekkanen, an expert in international political economy, international law, space security and policy, and the international relations of Japan/Asia, has launched her new book Asian Designs: Governance in the Contemporary World Order. Based on the assumption that Asian nations are no longer “rising” powers in the world order but rather have risen, how will they conduct

Jackson School Professor Saadia Pekkanen, an outer space expert, was featured in last week’s Forbes “Editor’s Pick” for her article on China’s recent launch of a quantum communications satellite. The new satellite was designed to help China develop long-distance quantum communication that secures corporate and government information, ultrafast quantum computers, and whole quantum networks. Pekkanen argues that though it may

Margaret Walrod, a UW graduate student in Applied International Studies, was awarded a Summer 2016 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship by the East Asia Center.  She is spending her summer studying Chinese in Beijing with a teacher from the Chinese Language Education program. She writes, “Before my first Chinese class, I couldn’t help

KOMO News interviews Jackson School Professor and Chair of the China Studies Program David Bachman for his comments on the ongoing dispute at the China Sea. The dispute involves China’s claim over most of the China Sea, including waters claimed by Japan in the eastern part of the sea, and by the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam to the