Research by Professor Caroline Freund and coauthors seeks to answer a critical question: what has the effect of these tariffs actually been on the U.S. trade?

In this blog, we offer a more nuanced perspective by analyzing data across various domains, specifically indicators of economic, strategic, and diplomatic influence. While China is undeniably a [...]

In this blog, we offer a more nuanced perspective by analyzing data across various domains, specifically indicators of economic, strategic, and diplomatic influence. While China is undeniably a [...]

In this blog, we will draw on our repeated China from the Ground Up (CFGU) surveys to guide you through critical shifts and continuities in China’s public opinion since we began our repeated [...]

The estimated 3 million students from China who have studied in the U.S. since the late 1970s represent one of the largest cross-border flows of talent in modern times. As critics in America [...]

Using Twitter’s API to gather daily tweets by members of Congress, our new Congressional Tweets on China Portal (https://chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/tweets/) allows users to visualize and explore [...]

How does the policy sausage get made in China, where electoral institutions don’t play a significant role? This research explores the distinct mechanisms and pathways that facilitate policy [...]

How many people have been directly affected by the COVID-Zero policy and how the Chinese public feels about these lockdowns and wider COVID policies. Does some silent majority support these [...]

What’s clear is that Chinese SCSs are more ambitious than FICO and other financial credit systems and extend their purpose.  But what do Chinese citizens think of these systems, with their [...]

Drawing on years of data collection work headed up by UC San Diego’s Victor Shih and updated in the Summer of 2022, the China Data Lab CCP Elite Portal (https://chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/elites/) [...]

In our last blog, we showed a remarkable convergence between Democrats’ and Republicans’ negative sentiments toward China. How deep does this bipartisan consensus go? Does this consensus involve [...]

Given Chinese media environment, how are everyday Chinese citizens seeing the ongoing war in Ukraine? Do they sympathize with the victims of an invasion, or do they support Russia‘s so-called [...]

Starting here, we’ll be diving into sentiment. Overall, we find interesting bipartisan similarity in this measure since around the start of the trade war in 2018, with negativity dominating the [...]

How do MCs discuss China in the public sphere? We find that, while issues of human rights and security dominate over discussions of trade, Republicans and Democrats tend to highlight distinct [...]

Congress Tweets Part I. We ask the question: does politicians’ tweeting stop at the water’s edge? How much do U.S. politicians tweet about foreign policy, and how much do they concern themselves [...]

U.S.-China tensions have given rise to increasingly negative feelings between the two countries’ populations. In our work, we explore the dynamics of interpersonal expression of anti-foreign [...]

Economic inequality is a hot-button issue in contemporary PRC politics. Recently, Xi Jinping’s “Common Prosperity” initiative has sought to resolve decades of unequal growth and fix the social [...]

Most people following Chinese pop culture would remember the day Hip-Hop was banned. It was significant — not only because of Hip-Hop’s global status, but also because it fit the narrative of an [...]

What’s in a Virus’ Name? From the “Chinese Virus” to Anti-Asian Racial Animus by Sophie SHENG and Runjing LU In a news conference on March 18, 2020, a reporter questioned then-President [...]

Chinese Talent, American Enterprise Five Takeaways of How Chinese Talent Contributes to Biotech Innovation in the U.S. by Lei Guang, Ruixue Jia, Jingwen Liu, Young Yang Visualization by Jingwen [...]

by Haifeng Huang How do the Chinese public think China is viewed in the world? If information—including content critical of the government—flowed freely in China, the Chinese public might be [...]

The Chinese leadership has cast the novel coronavirus pandemic as a win for centralized governance but do Chinese citizens agree? Despite initial anger at the government’s attempt to cover up the [...]

We find that respondents are satisfied with their happiness in life and financial situation in light of their personal well-being. In a bigger picture, they are more satisfied with China’s [...]

In terms of globalization, respondents think free trade and economic connections are very beneficial to China and the Chinese economy, but hold mixed views on global trade’s influence on their [...]

Respondents express serious concern about global warming and they support policies aimed at environmental protection.

In this post, we look at how self-reliance has been used in the text of the People’s Daily from January 2016 to 2018. We find that the word is used very infrequently in 2016, but increases [...]

Does U.S. congressional opinion about China as expressed on Twitter align more closely with opinion of an ally and partner such as Canada? Or does it instead mirror views of a country such as [...]

To what extent we can generalize findings from China’s largest online labor market. How do subjects obtained from online recruitment differ from a nationally representative sample in China?

How is Islam portrayed on social media in China? In this post, we explore the way in which negative sentiment toward Islam manifests itself on the Chinese Internet.

A growing body of research shows that authoritarian regimes can be responsive to ordinary citizens, but why is this the case?

Bai and Jia (2016) investigate one important political consequence of the change in elite recruitment: how the abolition of the exam contributed to revolution participation in the late 19th and [...]