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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

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Mihaela Papa

Director of Research

Principal Research Scientist

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M. Taylor Fravel

Director, Security Studies Program

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science

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Eric Heginbotham

Co-Director, SSP Wargaming Lab

Principal Research Scientist

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Fiona Cunningham

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Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Kacie Miura

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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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Working Groups

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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Student spotlights

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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Book

China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion

Cambridge University Press

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

Book

Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949

Princeton University Press

Book

International Relations in the Cyber Age: The Co-Evolution Dilemma

MIT Press

Book

China Steps Out

Routledge

Book

Japan's Pivot in Asia

Oxford University Press

Book

Hidden Atrocities

Columbia University Press

Book

China's Evolving Nuclear Deterrent: Major Drivers and Issues for the United States

RAND Corporation

Book

3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan

Cornell University Press

Book

Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes

Princeton University Press

Featured News

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U.S.-China arms control: 5 ideas in nuclear and emerging technologies

Competing visions of international order

MIT Maritime Consortium sets sail

US policy on BRICS: A temporary fix or a strategic reset?

BRICS in focus: A conversation with Dr. Mihaela Papa

Taiwanese journalist joins CIS as its Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow

Our Experts

Sean Gilbert

Yasheng Huang

Mihaela Papa

M. Taylor Fravel

Eric Heginbotham

Fiona Cunningham

Kacie Miura

Opportunities

Events

Student spotlights

Annabeth's story

Roger's story

Publications

China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion

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

Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949

International Relations in the Cyber Age: The Co-Evolution Dilemma

China Steps Out

Japan's Pivot in Asia

Hidden Atrocities

China's Evolving Nuclear Deterrent: Major Drivers and Issues for the United States

3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan

Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes