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Why has China's economy slowed so dramatically after years of rapid growth, and what realistic policy options and tools do Chinese authorities have to improve the economy’s trajectory? Please join the CSIS Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics for an in-person event featuring Logan Wright of the Rhodium Group (and a CSIS non-resident senior associate).

Please join the Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) for a reception honoring Mr. Neelkanth Mishra on his appointment as Executive Director at the World Bank Group, representing Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Sri Lanka.

The CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program welcomes Dr. Yury Dvorkin, Associate Professor in the Departments of Civil and Systems Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, for a conversation on new approaches to electricity transmission policy, moderated by Dr. Joseph Majkut, Director of the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program.

The summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping could cover a range of issues to potentially include trade, investment, AI, the war with Iran, and Taiwan. The morning after the summit, CSIS’s leading China experts will provide a rapid assessment of its outcomes in a live episode of State of Play on Friday, September 25, at 9:00 AM EDT. Amb.

President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet for a second time this year in late September in Washington. Central to the gathering will be a number of economic security issues: trade and macroeconomic imbalances, industrial policy, foreign investment, supply-chain resilience, clean-tech and energy markets, cybersecurity, dual-use technologies, and, of course, artificial intelligence.

Energy Shots tells energy stories through data, personalities, and politics. Every other Friday, Joseph Majkut and Kevin Book break down the trends of the moment with charts, visuals, and straight talk that cuts through the noise. Join them as they dig into names, numbers, and details, from clean tech to crude markets, political risk to pocketbook issues…and beyond. This event is made possible by general funding to CSIS and the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program.

Part of the Middle East Program’s Middle East Futures Project, this Commentary series will analyze the Middle East’s current period of disequilibrium, explore future scenarios for the region, and identify potential pathways forward. The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Since the late 2000s, more than half of all new patents in the United States have been granted to non-resident applicants—individuals and firms that are not primarily domiciled in the United States. At first glance, this may appear as a vulnerability: a sign that the U.S. patent system benefits foreign innovators more than American ones. But that interpretation overlooks the ways in which protecting foreign intellectual property (IP) advances U.S. competitiveness.

When Americans think about China and intellectual property (IP), they typically think about theft. And for good reason. For decades, China relied on foreign technology to fuel its economic rise, employing a range of legal and illegal means to acquire IP from abroad. Allegations of cyber espionage, forced technology transfer, counterfeiting, and trade secret theft became regular features of the U.S.-China relationship.

Commentary by Barath Harithas — October 29, 2024