Name: Talk: China watches back: Chinese public opinion on international relations
Start: 2026-02-16T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-16T15:30:00+00:00
Location: Bush House

Talk: China watches back: Chinese public opinion on international relations

Experts from The Carter Centre discuss what Chinese people think about US-China relations, the trade conflict, Russia, Taiwan and more.
About this Event

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 Yawei Liu and 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. Join us on Monday 16 February, 2-3.30pm at Bush House, King’s College London.

This is an in-person event. Registration is required. Those without tickets will not be admitted. Room details will be sent by email closer to the date.

About the speakers:

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.

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.

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