“Generalized secrecy and lack of transparency increasingly common to Chinese politics and economics erodes trust,” says Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of government. 

Sidney Tarrow, emeritus professor of government and adjunct professor of law, writes this opinion piece on a recent protest on a bridge in Beijing. 

“Xi Jinping has emphatically set the Chinese economy on a path toward realizing his vision of a state-dominated and self-reliant economy that will continue engaging with the rest of the world but entirely on its own terms,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy.

Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy, discusses the talks between President Biden and Chinese Xi Jinping (video).

“In several months, we may look back on the Biden-Xi meeting as the first signs of an inflection point that began to decelerate the spiral towards conflict,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government and public policy. 

“Even though both governments have sought to prevent direct military escalation, recent statements and actions by both sides have contributed to the action-reaction cycle that has put the two countries on a collision course, particularly over Taiwan,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government and public policy. 

“Marinetti was more in today’s terms a multi-genre artist — he believed in performance (readings); wrote poetry, [and] even had a futurist cookbook [which] said Italians ate too much pasta to be a glorious country,” says Mabel M. Berezin, professor of sociology.