Recent Activities
RANE Podcast: Baker’s Dozen: Applied Geopolitics for Businesses
July 21, 2022 by: Rodger Baker and Jacob ShapiroShare this ArticleIn this podcast, Rodger Baker, executive director of the Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics at RANE, discusses the practice of applied geopolitics. He speaks with Jacob Shapiro, director of...
Bush China Foundation Policy Brief: Report on U.S.-China Strategic Policy Dialogue on Ukraine
May 4, 2022 by: Zoe Leung, Jayson Shan and Cherry YuShare this ArticleOver two months after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the war’s outcomes and Russia’s endgame remain unclear. In response to the Russian aggression, the United States, along with its allies...
Asia Society Policy Institute: U.S.-Korea-China Relations
April 28, 2022 Share this ArticleWith strategic competition between the United States and China intensifying and a new South Korean President set to shift Seoul’s foreign policy preferences, join us for this discussion on U.S.-Korea-China relations,...
Bush China Foundation joins seminar to commemorate President Nixon’s visit to China
February 28, 2022 Share this ArticleOn February 28, 2022, David Firestein, president and CEO of the Bush China Foundation, joined a seminar to commemorate President Nixon’s visit to China and the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-China Joint Communiqué (also known as...
RANE Worldview: The Ukraine War Exposes Russia and China’s Competing Visions for Eurasia
February 25, 2022 by: Rodger BakerShare this ArticleChina continues to publicly back Russia despite the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. But the conflict is exposing Beijing and Moscow’s competing visions for the future of Eurasia, which will continue to stress their...
The George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations Calls for China to Condemn the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Stimson: South Korean Angle on the Taiwan Strait: Familiar Issue, Unfamiliar Option
February 23, 2023 by: Seong-Hyon LeeShare this ArticleThe issue of Taiwan was catapulted to center stage among U.S.-China issues in 2021, and Washington’s allies are examining their geopolitical calculus accordingly. In May 2021, after a summit between South Korean...
Blockworks: Russia/Ukraine Crisis To Cause Commodity “Doom Loop”
February 23, 2023 Share this ArticleAmid simmering cross-strait tensions, experts and officials alike have predicted that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could happen in the next 10 years, if not sooner. However, the headlines shroud the crucial role that Taiwan...
China’s Impact on Democracy and Human Rights in Central Asia
February 4, 2022 by: Sebastien PeyrouseShare this ArticleThis article analyzes the impact of China’s policy on politics and human rights in Central Asia. First, it discusses how Beijing’s narrative has supported authoritarianism in the region. Second, it analyzes some...
Institute of New Europe: Geopolitics, Climate Change, and Supply Chain Resilience
January 31, 2022 by: Jacob ShapiroShare this Article“Climate change” and “supply chains” are both extremely complex subjects. Climate change encompasses a range of phenomena: precipitation patterns, temperature, emissions, pollution, erosion, desertification, etc....
Bush China Foundation Brief: Report on U.S.-China Strategic Policy Dialogue on Afghanistan
January 31, 2022 by: Zoe Leung and Cameron WaltzShare this ArticleAmid simmering cross-strait tensions, experts and officials alike have predicted that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could happen in the next 10 years, if not sooner. However, the headlines shroud the...
David Firestein Featured as Speaker at Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Meeting
January 27, 2022 Share this ArticleDavid Firestein, President and CEO of the Bush China Foundation delivered a keynote address entitled, “U.S.-China Relations: An Assessment at the Year One Mark of the Biden Administration” at the Michigan State University...
Brookings: Toward Xi’s third term: China’s 20th Party Congress and beyond
January 20, 2022 Share this ArticleBush China Foundation Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor on China at the Carter Center, Yawei Liu, participated in a panel on “Xi Jinping’s past, present and future” at the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings on January...
Book Release: The Volatility and Future of Democracies in Asia
January 5, 2022 By Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Alan Hao YangShare this ArticleThis book explores the volatile and uncertain future of democracies in Asia through typological analysis of the diverse patterns of Asian countries. Detailed analysis and extensive case...
U.S.-China Exchange in Retrospect: Bush Legacy and Beyond
August 30, 2021 Share this ArticleIn this video, Bush China Foundation Founder and Chairman Neil Bush and President and CEO David Firestein discuss if the U.S.-China relationship of competitive interdependence can allow deepening exchange of businesses and trade...