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It’s been just over a week since election day in the United States, and the results are not quite final but coming into sight. Democrats will keep the Senate, potentially even gaining a seat depending on a runoff election in Georgia next month. As votes continue to be tallied across the country, Republicans are one […]

From funding for domestic chip manufacturing making its way through the US government right now to China’s subsidization of industries it views as strategic, industrial policy is an important aspect of understanding today’s intersection of business and government. But just how much do countries spend on industrial policy? It turns out, although lots of research […]

Last year, President Biden announced that the United States would be exploring the development of an Indo-Pacific economic framework. The announcement was made during a virtual East Asia Summit back in October. That framework, known as IPEF, was officially launched last month. Over the intervening seven months, bits of information and broad concepts about IPEF […]

The phrase “decoupling” is used frequently in the context of the US-China tech relationship, but what precisely does it mean? Just how coupled are the United States’ and China’s tech ecosystems and how is that relationship changing? And what does the future hold for those interconnections? We talk with Jon Bateman, a fellow in the […]

It’s hard to get into any conversation about competition with China without addressing whether competition in a particular industry is fair. Do foreign companies in China and Chinese companies in foreign markets play by the same rules? In a report from Rhodium Group released last spring, Dr. Agatha Kratz and her colleagues took a look […]

By 2016, China had the world's largest stock of operational robots. This was a massive increase since 2010, when it trailed, Japan, the United States, Germany, and South Korea. To learn why and how China is automating so quickly, I spoke with Dr. Hongbin Li, Co-Director of the Stanford Center for China's Economy and Institutions (SCCEI), who studies trade, technology, labor, and management in China.