Welcome to China 360°, a bulletin featuring original insights from the scholars at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy’s 21st Century China Center to keep you informed about the complex and multidimensional developments in China and U.S.-China relations.
Issue 29: Dec. 13, 2022
OPINION
The Dangerous Downward Spiral of U.S.-China Relations

In this Wall Street Journal year-in-review piece, Susan Shirk lays out the logic behind the downward spiral in U.S.-China relations and calls for efforts to counteract the domestic drag to the bottom.
Chinese medical staff in white hazmat suits
BLOG
How (Un)popular is Zero-COVID?
In our latest China Data Lab blog post, we surveyed Chinese citizens to see what they thought about China’s pandemic control policies before the country abandoned key parts of its Zero-COVID strategy.
Police car in Shenzhen China. Photo by Enxyclo Studio on Unsplash
PODCAST
Outsourcing Repression
Lynette Ong sits down to discuss how China employs thugs and respected elders alike to bring society in line with government mandates in this latest episode of our podcast, China 21.
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