The United States Senate’s Role in the US-China Relationship (1989-2018)

• In Event: The Practice and Avoidance of Domestic Oversight

Brief Overview

The United States Senate has played an increasingly prominent role in American China Foreign Policy. We provide the first comprehensive dataset of 885 China-centric Senate legislative actions in the post-1989/Tiananmen Square period.

Authors

• Spencer Shanks, University of Kansas

• Jiakun Jack Zhang, Princeton University