Despite the enormous effort the Chinese government makes to shape popular opinion in China, in recent years, few organizations outside China have succeeded in measuring how Chinese people view the world. China Pulse, a new project by The Carter Center's China Focus initiative, surveys Chinese public opinion on U.S.-China relations, U.S.-China trade conflict, Russia, Taiwan, Northeast Asia, and the South China Sea.

The Carter Center's Dr Yawei Liu and Dr Nick Zeller will provide a look into their findings and discuss identifiable trends, including a continued willingness to work with the United States despite America's deep unfavourability and growing support for Chinese military coercion in Asia, chaired by Dr Olivia Cheung, King’s College London. Join us on Monday 16 February, 2-3.30pm in Room 2.12, Bush House South East, KCL Strand campus.

This is an in-person event. Registration is required. Those without tickets will not be admitted.

About the speakers:

Dr Yawei Liu Ph.D. is the Senior Advisor on China at The Carter Center and an adjunct professor of political science at Emory University. An expert on U.S.-China relations and Chinese grassroots democracy, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the associate director of the China Research Center in Atlanta. He is regularly invited to speak about Chinese public opinion, and his previous engagements include the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Brookings Institution, the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, and the Institute for China-America Studies.

Dr Nick Zeller is a senior program associate in China Focus at The Carter Center, where he acts lead researcher in public opinion and editor of the U.S.-China Perception Monitor. Prior to joining the Carter Center, Nick was a Visiting Assistant Professor of World History in Kennesaw State University’s Department of History and Philosophy, Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian History in the University of South Carolina’s Department of History, and an NSEP Boren Fellow at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He received his Ph.D. in modern Chinese history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr Olivia Cheung is Lecturer in Politics at the Department of European & International Studies and Affiliate of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London. She is also China Fellow at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Previously, she was Research Fellow at the China Institute of SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, and Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick. She obtained the MPhil and DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford as a Swire Scholar and Rhodes Scholar. 

Please contact lauchina@kcl.ac.uk if you have any questions or specific participatory requirements.