Views of Chinese and American think tanks from perspective of Sino-US geo-technological competition and its implications for China

Authors

Xi CHEN, Institute for Advanced Studies on New International Relations, Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou 310023, China; Institute for Urban Internationalization Studies, Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou 310023, ChinaFollow
Guangyan SHAO, School of English Studies, Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou 310023, China
Jiayu HU, School of Foreign Studies, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
Xufeng ZHU, School of Public Policy & Management Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Dong WANG, School of International Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, ChinaFollow

Keywords

geo-technological competition；China；United States；think tank

Document Type

Think Tank Viewpoint

Abstract

The geo-political and technological competition (geo-technological competition) between China and the United States is the main arena of great power competition in the 21st century, which has impacted the global technology, supply chain, and economic development landscape in unexpected ways. Although this issue has been widely discussed in the academic community, there is a lack of a systematic study of the actions of first-class think tanks in China and the United States. Therefore, this study selects the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the Brookings Institution, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) as the research objects, collects, sorts out, and analyzes their online public comments from 2002 to 2024, and attempts to explore the decision-making preferences of first-class think tanks on both sides. This study finds that although think tanks on both sides are competitive in the keywords of “supply chain” and “accusation”, they show common concerns in the keywords of engagement and “equality and governance”, and the geo-technological competition between China and the United States will exist in the long term. The academic contributions of this study are: (1) constructing a collection of views of first-class think tanks in China and the United States since 2002; and (2) analyzing the decision-making preferences of Chinese and American think tanks and making trend predictions for the actions of both sides. It is expected that the content of this study will provide information service regarding the development trend and coping strategies of geo-technological competition.

First page

571

Last Page

586

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Recommended Citation

CHEN, Xi; SHAO, Guangyan; HU, Jiayu; ZHU, Xufeng; and WANG, Dong (2024) "Views of Chinese and American think tanks from perspective of Sino-US geo-technological competition and its implications for China," Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version): Vol. 40 : Iss. 3 , Article 21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16418/j.issn.1000-3045.20250107004
Available at: https://bulletinofcas.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss3/21