Sun Xuefeng was a resident scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center until June 2020.
An expert on the rise of great powers and China's foreign policy, Sun ran a program in the center researching the international and regional impact of China’s rise.
Sun is also an Associate Professor of International Relations and Deputy Dean of the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University. Since 2006 he has served as executive editor of Chinese Journal of International Politics (Oxford University Press) and a board member for the International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy from 2011.
His current research focuses on the rise of great powers, China’s foreign policy and international relations in East Asia. He is the author of dozen of academic papers in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific,Pacific Focus, Chinese Journal of International Politics etc , the author, co-author or co-editor of five books, Dilemma of China's Rise (2011); China and East Asian Regional Order: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2011); Rethinking China’s Rise :A CJIP Reader (Oxford University Press, 2010); Selected Readings in Practical Methods of International Studies (2010); Practical Methods of International Studies (first edition in 2001, 2nd edition in 2007) and The Grand Strategy of China's Rise (2005) .
President Obama’s recent visit to Asia underscored the importance of the U.S.-China relationship and the challenge of managing it in the context of increasing interdependence, but also tension and mistrust.
Heightened tensions in the Asia-Pacific, coupled with China’s adjustment of its regional security policy, has meant that the results of the U.S. rebalance to Asia are not as good now as they were two years ago.
Four months after the historic meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama at the Sunnylands Estate, the direction of Obama’s East Asia policy remains unclear.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been calling for a new type of great-power relationship with the United States to pave the way for China’s smooth ascendance into the changing global order.
China holds a critical role in overcoming the major global issues of 2013, ranging from climate change to nuclear security to the global economy.
China is a rising power that must define its identity as a global player and balance its domestic needs against those of an increasingly multipolar world.
Public opinion plays a strong, though different, role in the development of foreign policy in both China and the United States.
How China and the United States interact with each other and other states in the Asian-Pacific region will determine the future of this tenuous bilateral relationship.
Amid discussions of a U.S. decline, the role that China will play as a global leader becomes an ever more heated topic. However, debate remains about whether China is ready or willing to be a global leader.
Conditionality poses the most significant difference in how aid is given by Western nations and China.
