Kissinger Institute

Levine: "For China, the best way to reassure the US business community is to reassure the reform and opening up. But in this [U.S.] administration, the business community does not have the same influence as it has in previous administrations"

Wilson Center's @CanadaInstitute director @DawsonCanada on China-Canada relations: "Much of China's relationship with Canada is romance." From Canadian perspective, a "romance and repel strategy," and characterizes Trudeau govt's views towards China as ambivalent

.@DawsonCanada finds "Canada does not have the market size to force concessions from China," and that it has has many common factors with US trade concerns with China, like a "marriage made in heaven."

KICUS/@LATAMProg Fellow @BCreutzfeldt : "[China-LatAM trade] is around $250 billion, but it was around the same as it was 5 years ago...pretty constant, and only about the same as EU-Latin America, and far less than with the United States. China's still not displacing the US"

On China's BRI deals, @BCreutzfeldt finds that LatAm countries "find little reason not to sign a MOU," but that "China's learning very well" through inter-American dialogue research, analyzing "shortcomings" in region, civil society groups pushing back against project expansions

.@wilsonCEF director Jennifer Turner on China-US environmental engagement: "Energy cooperation appears to be off the table for discussion" and working off precedents by "cooperative competition" in past dialogues

Turner on fishing activities by China: "[China's fishing fleets] doesn't always comply with international law," and is "major culprit of illegal fishing." Cites fuel subsidies/govt support as why fleets expanded so quickly to meet consumption and export needs @wilsonCEF

KICUS 2017-18 fellow @shotinshanghai summarizes US-China market entries as a story of "big trade-offs" - iQiyi helps Netflix enter China, later attains #NASDAQ listing

.@shotinshanghai describing post- March 2019 reorganization within Chinese government: "We are seeeing centralization and an elevation of importance in media regulation"

Robert Daly on US-China educational relations: "We have benefitted in the U.S. of the flow of talent [from Chinese students]", returnees have been "bulwark of constructive relations" between China and US.

Daly: "Research and development is the key to both hard and soft power. This is something Beijing and Washington agree on... Therefore universities end up in their sights."

KICUS Global Fellow @ZhengWangSHU cites Opium War era as when China itself began to think about foreign influence. "Chinese nationalism was built on the claim of cleaning up bad foreign influence, to build up a pure China"

Wang on 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. "One of the major concerns [by Deng] when China opened the door was actually foreign influence," and that concerns reached highest points in 1989, when officials saw Tiananmen student movements as a failure.