China Focus Blog’s Annual Essay Contest
View the posts and links below to find more information for each year's essay competition.
China Focus 2024 Annual Essay Contest
China Focus is thrilled to announce the 2024 China Focus Essay Contest. This year’s contest is organized by China Focus and is jointly hosted by the Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary […]
2023 China Focus Essay Contest Winners
The 2023 China Focus Essay Contest received a record number of submissions from many talented individuals. The quality of the submissions exceeded our expectations, making the selection process a [...]
China Focus Blog’s Annual Essay Contest Winners
View the posts and links below to read the Essay Contest winning articles
重建中美人文交流:一个亲历者的思考 — 2024 China Focus Contest 1990 Institute Winner
From Beijing Foreign Studies University
中美作为当今世界最重要的两个大国,他们之间的关系已超越双边关系范畴,攸关世界的前途命运…
Unable or Unwilling? The Self-Imposed Limits of Chinese Conflict Mediation — 2024 China Focus Essay Contest Jimmy Carter Winner
From Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs & Peking University
On March 10, 2023, the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement surprised international analysts…
参与冲突调停的中国:积极而有限的调停者角色 — 2024 China Focus Essay Contest Runner Up
From Beijing International Studies University
国际安全问题事关人类生存与发展,俄乌冲突和巴以问题是现今最受关注的地区安全热点事件…
积极有为且有所不为:中国作为中东冲突潜在“调停者” — 2024 China Focus Essay Contest Runner Up
Limited Activeness: China as a Potential Mediator in the Middle East
From Tsinghua University
2023 年 10 月以来,新一轮大规模加沙冲突引发国际社会关注…
The Future of the U.S.-China Educational Exchanges — 2024 China Essay Contest Runner Up
From Columbia University
As China and the United States grapple with issues of intellectual property theft, cybersecurity concerns, and competition for technological supremacy…
Kingdom in the Middle: China as an International Mediator — 2024 China Focus Essay Contest Runner Up
From University of California, San Diego
China has long maintained an image of a non-interventionist state. Despite its global clout and rising power, China has adopted neutrality in a wide variety of situations…
中美绿色前景:竞合并存下的政策调整—2023 China Focus Essay Runner-Up
The runner-up for the 2023 China Focus Essay Contest goes to the duo of Yu Jiangmen (余江蔓) and Ye Linhong (叶林红). Yu Jiangmen is a recent graduate of Beijing Foreign […]
Politics Out the Way! Towards a Deeper U.S.-China Green Cooperation—2023 China Focus Essay 1990 Institute First Prize Winner
One of the two 2023 China Focus Essay Contest winners is the team of Katerina Yang and Ann-Alice Tichá. Katerina is a senior student at Johns Hopkins University majoring in […]
China’s Best Friend in the EU: The Potential for Sino-Hungarian Cooperation—2023 China Focus Essay Contest Runner-Up
One of the two 2023 China Focus Essay Contest runner-ups is Michelle Lai, a first-year graduate student at the Global Policy School from the University of California San Diego. Her […]
Green Protectionism: A Dangerous Consensus—2023 China Focus Essay The Jimmy Carter First Prize Winner
One of the two 2023 China Focus Essay Contest winners is Graham Revare, a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Kansas. He is a member of the debate team […]