Chinese Politics Mini-Conference: China And The World

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Part of Mini-Conference

• Chinese Politics Mini-Conference

Session Description

The U.S-China relations are at a critical and precarious state. Americans have been extremely concerned about job losses to Chinese exports, its promotion of authoritarian values, and coordinated, mercantilist measures against global standards. These concerns have resulted in sizable support for economic decoupling and trade war under the Trump administration. Papers in this panel employ new data and methods and shed light on the externality and internality of China’s global economic relations. Paper 1 desegregates Chinese imports between American MNCs and Chinese firms and finds both exporters carry job losses in the U.S but only the latter have negative political effects in the U.S. Paper 2 analyzes patterns of Chinese censorship of online postings by American embassies since 2010 and finds that the censorship does not target western values but specific events that have domestic stability implications. The third paper examines internality of economic integration and global regulatory pressure on Chinese bureaucracy and reveals the intensification and patterns of intra-bureaucratic fragmentation. Finally, the fourth paper conducts new quantitative and qualitative research on American firms in China to evaluate whether the trade war has resulted in supply chain diversion away from China and into Southeast Asia.

Sub Unit

• Division 13: Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries

Individual Presentations

• A China Shock or a Multinational Shock? - Lizhi Liu, Georgetown University; Dennis P. Quinn, Georgetown University

• Signaling and Censorship: US Embassy in China’s Social Media - Xiaoyu Pu, University of Nevada, Reno; Chengli Wang, University of Macau; Yuan Zhou, Kobe University

• The Perforated State: International Standards-Setting in a Globalized China - Yeling Tan, University of Oregon

• Assessing the Trade War's Impact on Foreign Invested Enterprises - Samantha Vortherms, University of California, Irvine; Jiakun Zhang, University of Kansas

Chair

• Min Ye Boston University

Discussants

• Ja Ian Chong National University of Singapore

• Todd H. Hall University of Oxford