Official account of the U.S.-China Perception Monitor, a publication by The Carter Center's China Focus Initiative Links: USCNPM.org USCNPM.substack.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3m4b6navbgs2fIn September, Amb. Kritenbrink joined @cartercenter.bsky.social and @ncuscr.bsky.social to discuss where U.S.-China relations are headed based on his long career as a diplomat in Asia. His main conclusion? Stable, managed competition. https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/betting-on-stable-competition-w-amb?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false28 Oct 2025 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4b6navbgs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3m3hse3oiis2rNo one in America likes their HOA. However, according to @shitongqiao.bsky.social, HOAs are an important site of actually existing democracy in China that depend on a strong state while potentially threatening it. Alice Liu asks him how this could be. https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/the-democracy-of-hoas-seriously-w?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false18 Oct 2025 12:34 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3hse3oiis2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3m2wab6ozqk26As economic tensions escalate between Washington and Beijing, @stimsoncenter.bsky.social's Yun Sun explains why the trade was will ultimately work in China's favor. The Trade War's Not That Bad for China w/ Yun Sun https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/the-trade-wars-not-that-bad-for-china?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false11 Oct 2025 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2wab6ozqk26https://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3m2mer2m6pc23Tyler Quillen talks with @tongzhao.bsky.social at @carnegieendowment.org about the consequences of America's illiberal turn for China and its neighbors https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/dialogue-of-the-deaf-w-tong-zhao?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false07 Oct 2025 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2mer2m6pc23https://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3m2el7urpgs2nXiang Biao at the @maxplanck.de explains that alienation in Chinese society means moving as fast as possible to nowhere. The Unbearable Busyness of Hummingbirds w/ Xiang Biao https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/the-unbearable-busyness-of-hummingbirds?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false04 Oct 2025 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2el7urpgs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3m22nw45a3k2cSandra Tarte at The University of the South Pacific spoke with Rory O'Connor about how Fiji, Micronesia's most influential state, is navigating U.S.-China tensions. Micronesia in Macropolitics w/ Sanra Tarte https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/testing-the-pacific-way-w-sandra?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false30 Sep 2025 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3m22nw45a3k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lzof4gganc2gJoin us for this virtual discussion of what recent studies of public opinion from both sides of the Pacific reveal about how Chinese people see their place in the world. Register here: https://ucsd.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kE2EumLeRdeTrJPqn74HFA#/registration\ @cartercenter.bsky.social @global-affairs.bsky.social25 Sep 2025 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzof4gganc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lyuufnc53k26Antonina Łuszczykiewicz-Mendis on China's new hydropower mega project in Tibet, impacts on India, and the international politics of rivers. https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/when-china-rules-the-rivers?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false15 Sep 2025 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyuufnc53k26https://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lydelucgoc2hJoin us Sept 19 10:00-11:30 for a conversation with Amb. Dan Kritenbrink & GA House Rep. Michelle Au on the impacts of the US-China rivalry on the Chinese diaspora nationally and in the southeast. @ncuscr.bsky.social08 Sep 2025 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lydelucgoc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lxuyvnkj7s2tCheck out the results of our collaboration with @global-affairs.bsky.social surveying Chinese public opinion on China's place in the world and it's economic future. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2025 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxuyvnkj7s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lxuada2fn22eNo one listening in Washington. Where should we turn? @nickzeller.bsky.social, writes about the devastation that accompanies the rise and fall of modern empires, including the U.S. and that the road to peace may lie in the survival strategies of smaller countries. https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/empires-age-like-dynamite?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false02 Sep 2025 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxuada2fn22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lxu7unab4s2eIn part 2 of our interview with @elifriedman.bsky.social, the Cornell professor discusses the limits of economic nationalism and the meaning of China's 2022 protests against state COVID control policies. https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/neither-washington-nor-beijing-w-4b7?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false02 Sep 2025 13:28 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxu7unab4s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lxu76iw7nk2qThere are plenty of studies of Chinese nationalism looking at media, govt docs, & social media. We conducted a survey, asking 1,000 Chinese people (yes, in China) where they see their country in the near future and their views on international issues. https://globalaffairs.org/events/china-and-world-how-citizens-view-their-countrys-global-future02 Sep 2025 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxu76iw7nk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lxa4324br224Join us in Chicago or tune in for our live stream! [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2025 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxa4324br224https://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lxcbp6ttuc2vHow should we respond when the US rightly condemns actions in China it wrongly perpetrates itself elsewhere? Part 1 of 2 of our interview with @elifriedman.bsky.social on what international solidarity means in US-China relations today. https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/neither-washington-nor-beijing-w?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false26 Aug 2025 10:12 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxcbp6ttuc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lxa4324br224Join us in Chicago or tune in for our live stream! [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2025 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxa4324br224https://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lwz26hs4gk2uIf you aren't in Chicago, join us virtually to learn more about Chinese public opinion on foreign policy! @global-affairs.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2025 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwz26hs4gk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lwwafnzan22wJoin @cartercenter.bsky.social and @global-affairs.bsky.social September 3 in Chicago to discuss the results of our most recent survey of Chinese public opinion on foreign policy issues! https://globalaffairs.org/events/china-and-world-how-citizens-view-their-countrys-global-future21 Aug 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwwafnzan22whttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lwvqq76hp22u"The deepening partnership between Serbia and China offers a revealing case study of how Beijing capitalizes on a complex blend of historical grievance, economic aspiration, and political vulnerability," writes Stefan Vladisavljev for The Monitor. https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/the-cost-of-disengagement-how-serbia?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false21 Aug 2025 10:37 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwvqq76hp22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lwom5i5fg22sChinese college students studying in America aren't just in the U.S. for the quality of the universities. They are also escaping a high-pressure sorting system of standardized testing whose results have lifelong consequences. https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/to-take-gaokao-or-not-to-take-gaokao?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false18 Aug 2025 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwom5i5fg22shttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lw7j34pbhc2pWhat are the actual prospects for peaceful unification of mainland China and Taiwan? It's not a popular question in most circles in the West, but understanding China's position is still key to avoiding preventable bad outcomes. @edisonchen0222.bsky.social https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/assessing-peaceful-unification-w?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false12 Aug 2025 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw7j34pbhc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lvxyafnh3s2nThe US is demonstrably unreliable in its economic and military commitments, yet China is still looked on with suspicion even as its investments are welcomed by many. The result is a pattern of hedging between the US and China by nearly all of Asia's middle powers. https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/quiet-hedging-indo-pacific-middle?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false09 Aug 2025 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvxyafnh3s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lvlrycwhpk2qEditor of The Monitor @nickzeller.bsky.social in the latest issue of China Currents from the China Research Center - an Atlanta-based China Studies collective [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Aug 2025 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvlrycwhpk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/uscnpm.bsky.social/post/3lv3y74kq422b@hmarston.bsky.social at @seasia.csis.org writes about Vietnam's tightrope walk between the US and China. With a closer eye always on its nearest neighbor, hedging still means more than turning to the US for defense and China for profits. @csis.org https://open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/vietnam-navigates-global-frictions?r=3gkgmf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false29 Jul 2025 11:16 +0000at://did:plc:zbzxtbh5redtkapiu63itpje/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv3y74kq422b