In September 2022, he became the first western scholar to visit China for in-person exchanges with PRC officials and business executives since the
COVID-19 lockdowns.[2][6][7]
Views on U.S.-China relations
Kennedy told Reuters about US Treasury Secretary
Janet Yellen's July 2023 China visit: "The accomplishment of the meeting was the meeting itself, not specific issues. We're starting from a point in which the two sides have barely spoken to each other in three and a half years and the level of mistrust and cynicism has been layered on so thick."[8] In a Politico interview, he called Yellen's trip "long overdue" and said: “It’s nuts that the leading officials presiding over the world’s two largest economies have barely spoken to each other in over three years. They should not be strangers.”[9]
In a July 2023
NYT interview about the
Chinese economy, Kennedy said: "China’s decision making is as hidden from our view as it has ever been, but China’s economic weakness is obvious for all to see, even China’s leaders, which can’t help but be one source of the recent moderation in foreign policy and willingness to engage Washington."[10]
U.S.-China Scholarly Recoupling: Advancing Mutual Understanding in an Era of Intense Rivalry, CSIS, March 27, 2024[12]
The State and the State of the Art on Philanthropy in China, International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, July 24, 2019 (co-authored with Angela Bies)[13]
China's Risky Drive into New-Energy Vehicles,
CSIS, November 19, 2018[14]
In September 2022, he became the first western scholar to visit China for in-person exchanges with PRC officials and business executives since the
COVID-19 lockdowns.[2][6][7]
Views on U.S.-China relations
Kennedy told Reuters about US Treasury Secretary
Janet Yellen's July 2023 China visit: "The accomplishment of the meeting was the meeting itself, not specific issues. We're starting from a point in which the two sides have barely spoken to each other in three and a half years and the level of mistrust and cynicism has been layered on so thick."[8] In a Politico interview, he called Yellen's trip "long overdue" and said: “It’s nuts that the leading officials presiding over the world’s two largest economies have barely spoken to each other in over three years. They should not be strangers.”[9]
In a July 2023
NYT interview about the
Chinese economy, Kennedy said: "China’s decision making is as hidden from our view as it has ever been, but China’s economic weakness is obvious for all to see, even China’s leaders, which can’t help but be one source of the recent moderation in foreign policy and willingness to engage Washington."[10]
U.S.-China Scholarly Recoupling: Advancing Mutual Understanding in an Era of Intense Rivalry, CSIS, March 27, 2024[12]
The State and the State of the Art on Philanthropy in China, International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, July 24, 2019 (co-authored with Angela Bies)[13]
China's Risky Drive into New-Energy Vehicles,
CSIS, November 19, 2018[14]