US-China

US-China

Research

Industrial Policy and Technology

US-China AI competition + Deng Xiaoping's 120th birthday + South China Sea

MERICS Briefs

Aug 29, 2024

Screen with code

Industry, allies and partners face tough choices as US-China tech war escalates

Rebecca Arcesati

Antonia Hmaidi

Comment

Oct 20, 2022

The next Hong Kong: Beijing’s vision for Taiwan

Helena Legarda

Antonia Hmaidi

Jacob Gunter

Nis Grünberg

Tracker

Aug 31, 2022

Beyond blocs: global views on China and US-China relations

Jacob Gunter

Helena Legarda

Anu Anwar

Pamela Aróstica Fernández

Evi Fitriani

Oyuna Baldakova

Oscar M. Otele

Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi

Naser Al-Tamimi

Kadir Temiz

Report

Aug 18, 2022

Taiwan tensions

MERICS Briefs

Aug 11, 2022

Growing US-China rivalry in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia: Implications for the EU

Matt Ferchen

Report

Mar 24, 2022

Bottom-up public discourse in a top-down system

Nis Grünberg

Comment

Feb 17, 2022

China's slow path towards science and technology leadership

Kai von Carnap

Comment

Feb 02, 2022

“Westernized” patriots defend China’s model

Valarie Tan

Comment

Jan 26, 2022

Strategic rivalry with China and Biden’s transatlantic promise

Michael Laha

Comment

Jan 20, 2022

Green-tech rivalry will complicate US-China climate cooperation

Nis Grünberg

Comment

Jan 19, 2022

Winning the tech war with Chinese characteristics

Valarie Tan

Comment

Jan 13, 2022

China’s defense against the war of words

Comment

Jan 05, 2022

Mind the Gap: Priorities for Transatlantic China Policy

Joint report by the Aspen Strategy Group, Munich Security Conference and MERICS

Bernhard Bartsch

Mikko Huotari

Jan Weidenfeld

Report

Jul 14, 2021

EU-US Trade and Technology Council will be a litmus test for transatlantic coordination on China

Rebecca Arcesati

Grzegorz Stec

MERICS Briefs

Jun 30, 2021

China fights back against Western sanctions and blacklists

MERICS Briefs

Jun 11, 2021

China's toolkit against sanctions + Shaping global narratives + Three-child policy

MERICS Briefs

Jun 10, 2021

Likeminded coordination boosted, with Chinese pushback

MERICS Briefs

Mar 26, 2021

Sanctions + China-Russia relations + Financial reforms

MERICS Briefs

Mar 25, 2021

Towards 'extreme competition': Mapping the contours of US-China relations under the Biden administration

Matt Ferchen

Report

Feb 10, 2021

Biden officials stake out hawkish positions on China, Xi pushes back

MERICS Briefs

Jan 28, 2021

TikTok and the US-China tech dispute

MERICS Briefs

Sep 24, 2020

Resilience and decoupling in the era of great power competition

How the fight between China and the US for geopolitical dominance has ruptured the world economy

Torsten Riecke

Report

Aug 20, 2020

US borrows from Beijing’s playbook to decouple the Internet from China

MERICS Briefs

Aug 13, 2020

US campaign against Chinese vendors: The Global 5G Contest Escalates

John Lee

Comment

Aug 06, 2020

Will American and Chinese Societies Support a New Type of Cold War?

Hanns W. Maull

Matt Ferchen

Comment

Jun 19, 2020

Europe’s position in the US-China trade conflict: It’s the exports, stupid

Maximilian Kärnfelt

Comment

May 25, 2020

Export controls and the US-China tech war

Policy challenges for Europe

Noah Barkin

Report

Mar 18, 2020

Open source of trouble: China’s efforts to decouple from foreign IT technologies

Caroline Meinhardt

Comment

Mar 18, 2020

Europe in the face of US-China rivalry

A report by the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC), January 2020

Lucrezia Poggetti

Jan Weidenfeld

External publication

Jan 23, 2020

Praised by the West, rejected by China: Tsai Ing-wen re-elected in Taiwan

China Update 1/2020

Jan 16, 2020

China’s incomplete reforms: perspective from its new IP regime (CEA Publications - JCEBS)

Max J. Zenglein

Jan 13, 2020

Why is the FBI investigating Americans who study in China? (ChinaFile)

Rebecca Arcesati

Sep 13, 2019

What shall we do with China?

Miguel Otero-Iglesias

Comment

Sep 13, 2019

China’s key opinion leaders on the trade conflict with the US: influence and censorship

Comment

Jun 27, 2019

What should Australia do about PRC-US technology competition? (China Matters)

John Lee

May 23, 2019

Huawei’s 90-day reprieve won’t impress China’s hardliners

Nis Grünberg

Comment

May 22, 2019

Normalization of Sino-American relations: 40 years later

Jerome A. Cohen

Comment

Jan 14, 2019

China-US Trade War: No end in sight?

Max J. Zenglein

Johannes Heller-John

Comment

Sep 13, 2018

China upgrades diplomacy while the United States pulls back

Helena Legarda

Comment

Mar 21, 2018

US tax cuts might inspire more capital outflows from China

Maximilian Kärnfelt

Comment

Jan 25, 2018

Insights

What a Trump re-election would mean for Taiwan

Claus Soong

Comment

Nov 01, 2024

A man watches a TV screen showing a news report of the Chinese live-fire military exercises near Taiwan, at a restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 22, 2024.

Events

The Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022

EU-China

Party and State

Geopolitics

US-China

MERICS Members Event: China Security and Risks in 2022

Feb. 17, 2022

Members only

Entrepreneur Rui Ma at a MERICS Lunch Talk

US-China

Digital China

MERICS Lunch Talk: Chinese Internet entrepreneurs amid the US-China trade dispute

Nov. 06, 2019

Experts on US-China

HuotariMikko

Mikko Huotari

Executive Director

MaxZenglein

Max J. Zenglein

Chief Economist

HelenaLegarda

Helena Legarda

Lead Analyst

Jacob Gunter

Jacob Gunter

Lead Analyst

Claus Soong

Claus Soong

Analyst

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