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Sean Gilbert

Lead, Asia-Pacific

Managing Director, MIT-China Program, MIT-Singapore Program, MIT-Australia & New Zealand Program

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Yasheng Huang

Faculty Director, MIT-China Program

Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management Professor, Global Economics and Management

Faculty and Researchers

Mihaela Papa

Director of Research

Principal Research Scientist

Director, BRICS Lab

Faculty and Researchers

M. Taylor Fravel

Director, Security Studies Program

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science

Faculty and Researchers

Eric Heginbotham

Co-Director, Security Studies Program Wargaming Lab

Principal Research Scientist

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Fiona Cunningham

Affiliate, Security Studies Program

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Affiliates and Visitors

Kacie Miura

Affiliate, Security Studies Program

Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Relations, University of San Diego

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MISTI China

MISTI matches MIT students with tailored internship, research, teaching and study opportunities in China.

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Global Seed Funds

The MIT Greater China Fund for Innovation grant program enables new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at MIT and their counterparts in the region.

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Two working groups focus on China, including the China Group on Climate Change and Sustainability and the Chinese Politics Research Workshop.

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CIS makes it possible for MIT students to experience the world while advancing knowledge, tackling tough challenges, and preparing for lives of impact, service, and leadership in an interconnected global society.

Annabeth's story

Civil & Environmental Engineering '15

Annabeth worked with her MIT-China Educational Technology Initiative (CETI) team introducing course content from MIT OpenCourseWare and MITx in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xining, and Yulin, Shaanxi.

Roger's story

Ph.D Candidate, Materials Science & Engineering '19

Rodger interned for a semester in the Lubrication Department at Shell (Shanghai) Technology Ltd. and taught for a summer in three different regions of China with the MIT-China Educational Technology Initiative (CETI).

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Publications

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Paper

Zheng, Enying, Wei Hong, Yasheng Huang, and Rongzhu Ke. “Networks Rewired: Quota Enforcement and the Unintended Mobilization of Native Place Ties.” Social Forces 103, no. 4 (2025): 1465–88.

June 2025

Report

Papa, Mihaela, and Evan S. Lieberman. “Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges.” MIT Center for International Studies, Post-Workshop Report (April 2025).

April 2025

Book

Not Just Another Cold War: The Global Implications of the US-China Rivalry (Chapter 7)

Oxford University Press

2025

Not Just Another Cold War: The Global Implications of the US-China Rivalry

Book

Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security

Princeton University Press

2025

Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security

Paper

Papa, Mihaela, and Zhen Han. “The Evolution of Soft Balancing in Informal Institutions: The Case of BRICS.” International Affairs (London) 101, no. 1 (2025): 73–95.

January 2025

Paper

Gao, Qihua, Yasheng Huang, El Ghali Zerhouni, and Yanchong Zheng. "How to Improve Citizen Engagement on Public Service Platforms? The Impact of Government Responsiveness." (2024).

September 2024

Book

China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion

Cambridge University Press

2023

China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion

Paper

Han, Zhen, and Mihaela Papa. “Leadership and Performance in Informal Institutions: The Internal Dynamics of BRICS.” Contemporary Politics 30, no. 1 (2024): 87–107.

October 2023

Paper

Zhu, Tingxuan. “Give but also take: China’s Covid-19 vaccine aid.” MIT Center for International Studies, precis (Fall 2023/Winter 2024: 13-17, 23).

September 2023

Book

The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

Yale University Press

2023

The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

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M. Taylor Fravel on China’s military

In denial? Debating US nuclear strategy

A major meeting in Alaska and new START, INF, China, AI, and more

Xi looks to tighten grip after scandals shake China’s military elite

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Publications

Zheng, Enying, Wei Hong, Yasheng Huang, and Rongzhu Ke. “Networks Rewired: Quota Enforcement and the Unintended Mobilization of Native Place Ties.” Social Forces 103, no. 4 (2025): 1465–88.

Papa, Mihaela, and Evan S. Lieberman. “Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges.” MIT Center for International Studies, Post-Workshop Report (April 2025).

Not Just Another Cold War: The Global Implications of the US-China Rivalry (Chapter 7)

Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security

Papa, Mihaela, and Zhen Han. “The Evolution of Soft Balancing in Informal Institutions: The Case of BRICS.” International Affairs (London) 101, no. 1 (2025): 73–95.

Gao, Qihua, Yasheng Huang, El Ghali Zerhouni, and Yanchong Zheng. "How to Improve Citizen Engagement on Public Service Platforms? The Impact of Government Responsiveness." (2024).

China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion

Han, Zhen, and Mihaela Papa. “Leadership and Performance in Informal Institutions: The Internal Dynamics of BRICS.” Contemporary Politics 30, no. 1 (2024): 87–107.

Zhu, Tingxuan. “Give but also take: China’s Covid-19 vaccine aid.” MIT Center for International Studies, precis (Fall 2023/Winter 2024: 13-17, 23).

The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline