Zhao offers a quick history of China's foreign policy since 1949 and then offers a provocative assessment of it today.
Belt and Road Initiative
Comparing U.S. & China Trade in Southeast Asia

We look at how reliant Southeast Asian nations are on trade with China and with the U.S. China is the top trading partner for all, but the U.S. Is a key export market for many.
What's At Stake In Xinjiang

A symposium featuring a distinguished panel of specialists to discuss Uyghur beliefs and Chinese government policies in the region.
Video: Tom Narins on Sovereignty and the Belt and Road Initiative

Professor Tom Narins from the University at Albany (SUNY Albany) on how the Belt and Road Initiative illustrates ways that sovereignty works that conventional international relations fail to account for.
U.S. Senate, Hearing on China's Belt and Road Initiative, June 12, 2019
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was committee chair of the finance committee and John Cornyn (R-Texas) was chair of the subcommittee on international trade. Cornyn chaired the hearing which included testimony from Carolyn Bartholomew, Roy Kamphausen, Daniel Klimen, and Derek Scissors.
Xi Jinping, Keynote Speech Opening the Second Belt and Road Forum, April 26, 2019
Xi Jinping opened the Second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing in April 2019.
President Xi's speech at opening of Belt and Road forum, May 14, 2017
This is the full text of the keynote speech given by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.
Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a book talk with author David M. Lampton. His new book examines China’s effort to create an intercountry railway system connecting China and its seven Southeast Asian neighbors.
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Join us for a book talk with Suisheng Zhao on how Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping each conceived and executed radically different approaches to China's relations with others.