Did the U.S.’s China Tariffs Reshape Global Supply Chains?
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?
China’s Global Footprint and Influence – Part I
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 [...]
China’s Global Footprint and Influence – Part II
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 [...]
China from the Ground Up: What 16 Waves of Public Opinion Surveys Tell Us About China and Chinese Views
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 [...]
Three Decades of Chinese Students in America, 1991 – 2021
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 [...]
Congressional Tweets on China: A Guide to Using the Data Portal
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 China’s State Council Coordinates Policy
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 (Un)popular is COVID-Zero?
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 [...]
How Chinese Citizens See Social Credit
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 [...]
The Makeup of the CCP Elite (Updated)
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/) [...]
