Scott Kennedy

Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics
Scott Kennedy

Scott Kennedy is senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). A leading authority on Chinese economic policy and U.S.-China commercial relations, Kennedy has been traveling to China for 37 years. His ongoing areas of focus include China’s innovation drive, Chinese industrial policy, U.S.-China relations, and global economic governance. His articles have appeared in a wide array of policy, popular, and academic venues, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and China Quarterly. His major publications include Managing U.S.-China Tensions over the Global Economic Order: Tentative Proposals (CSIS, November 2024); U.S.-China Scholarly Recoupling: Advancing Mutual Understanding in an Era of Intense Rivalry (CSIS, March 2024); (with Wang Jisi) Breaking the Ice: The Role of Scholarly Exchange in Stabilizing U.S.-China Relations (CSIS, 2023); China’s Uneven High-Tech Drive: Implications for the United States (CSIS, 2020); Global Governance and China: The Dragon’s Learning Curve (Routledge, 2018); The Fat Tech Dragon: Benchmarking China’s Innovation Drive (CSIS, 2017); and The Business of Lobbying in China (Harvard University Press, 2005). Kennedy hosts the China Field Notes podcast, which features voices from on the ground in China. From 2000 to 2014, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University (IU), where he established the Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business and was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office. Kennedy received a PhD in political science from George Washington University, an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a BA from the University of Virginia.

A full list of Kennedy’s publications is available here.

Updated: March 2025

甘思德博士是美国国际战略研究中心（CSIS）高级顾问兼中国商务和经济董事项目主任。作为中国经济政策和中美商业关系的权威专家，甘思德已有37年赴中国的经历。他目前关注的领域包括中国的创新驱动、中国的产业政策、中美关系以及全球经济治理。他的文章广泛发表于多个政策、大众和学术平台，包括《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《外交事务》、《外交政策》和《中国季刊》。他的主要出版物包括《处理好中美两国对全球经济秩序的摩擦：初步建议》（CSIS, 2024年); 《美中学术再挂钩：在激烈竞争的时代促进相互理解》（CSIS，2024年）、《破冰：学术交流对稳定美中关系的作用》（CSIS，2023年）（与王缉思合著）、《中国不平衡的高科技驱动：对美国的影响》（CSIS，2020年）、《全球治理与中国：龙的学习曲线》（Routledge，2018年）、《虚胖科技龙：衡量中国的科技之路》（CSIS，2017年）、以及《中国的游说事业》（哈佛大学出版社，2005年）。此外，甘思德主持《中国田野笔记》（China Field Notes）播客，采访中国当地的观点。从2000年至2014年，甘思德任教于印第安纳大学（IU），他在该校建立了中国政治与商业研究中心，并担任印第安纳大学中国办公室的创始学术主任。甘思德获得了乔治华盛顿大学政治学博士学位，约翰霍普金斯大学国际研究高等学院（SAIS）硕士学位，以及维吉尼亚大学学士学位。甘思德的出版物清单可于此查看。

更新：2025年3月

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Experts React: U.S.-China Relations Heading into a Likely Summit

An audio version of “⁠Experts React: U.S.-China Relations Heading into a Likely Summit⁠,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Thomas J. Christensen, Jeannette Chu, Brian Hart, Scott Kennedy, Henrietta Levin, and Ilaria Mazzocco. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

Podcast Episode by Thomas J. Christensen, Jeannette Chu, Brian Hart, Scott Kennedy, Henrietta Levin, and Ilaria Mazzocco — October 6, 2025

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Experts React: U.S.-China Relations Heading into a Likely Summit

This collection of brief comments by several CSIS China experts reflects substantial anxieties about the state of U.S.-China relations and the potential downsides to possible agreements reached during a potential Trump-Xi meeting on the sidelines of APEC.

Commentary by Thomas J. Christensen, Jeannette Chu, Brian Hart, Scott Kennedy, Henrietta Levin, and Ilaria Mazzocco — October 6, 2025

U.S.-China Trade Deal | The Capital Cable #121

The U.S. and China have been negotiating a trade deal for many months. On September 19, President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed to a summit at the sidelines of the APEC summit in Korea at the end of October. What to expect next?

Event — September 26, 2025