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

Nicholas Steele, a UW undergraduate in International Studies, was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to study Chinese with the CET Program in Beijing this summer.  He is spending the summer “exploring the old and new city, building friendships, and only speaking Mandarin.” He writes, “I have gotten to know Beijing through

China’s space industry has launched a new round of commercialization as a combined result of two national strategies—the streamlining of the defense industry and the “Going-Global” of domestic manufacturers. The former aims at increasing the profitability and efficiency of China’s defense enterprises and will allow more private capital to participate in the traditionally state-dominated industry.