Past Event: Karen Hao

Technology in US-China Relations

After decades of producing mutually beneficial research, U.S.-China scientific collaborations are declining under geopolitical strain. What does this trend mean for both countries and for the global system of scientific production? What is gained or lost in this decoupling?

Moderated by Yangyang Cheng, Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center

About the Speaker

Karen Hao covers China’s tech sector and society for the Wall Street Journal. Previously, she was a senior AI editor at the MIT Technology Review. She has been a Harvard Technology and Public Purpose fellow, and an MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow. She has lectured at MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, NYU, and Notre Dame. and her writing has appeared in Quartz, Mother Jones, The New Republic, and other outlets. She received a B.S. in mechanical engineering and minor in energy studies from MIT.