Susan Shirk
CanadaacademicFemale6.0Global Dominance: 0.00%Susan Shirk is a prominent academic and political analyst specializing in U.S.-China relations. She serves as a research professor at the University of California, San Diego, and is the director emeritus of its 21st Century China Center. Shirk has extensive experience in foreign policy and has written extensively on China's domestic and international behavior. In recent news, she commented on the upcoming U.S.-China trade talks, expressing cautious optimism about the potential for de-escalation in trade tensions.
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Susan Shirk of the University of California San Diego writes that patriotic education in China has long nurtured an expectation that Taiwan would soon be reunified.
China’s scared, too: Behind every power, domestic insecurity lurksCanada· 2026-09-20
Susan Shirk is a professor at UC San Diego and commented on the cautious approach of Chinese officials in negotiations.
Đàm phán thỏa thuận Mỹ - Trung Quốc khó đến mức nào
Vietnam· 2025-05-10
Susan Shirk is a research professor at UC San Diego and director emeritus of its 21st Century China Center.
The US-UK trade agreement was the easy part. China will be exponentially harder
United States· 2025-05-09