Yuhan Zhang – Associate Director

Yuhan Zhang is the Associate Director of Berkeley APEC Study Center at UC Berkeley. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree with a designated emphasis on political economy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include international macroeconomics, U.S.-China economic and high-tech relations, China’s industrial policies, and quantitative analysis. Before coming to Berkeley, he served as an economist and a corporate adviser to U.S. multinational companies and a researcher with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has published more than 20 articles on trade, foreign investment, energy, and U.S.-China relations and has been invited to lecture at world’s renowned universities such as Cornell and Columbia. He holds a master’s degree from Columbia University where he was a Randle International Fellow and recipient of the Jal Pavry annual award.
» E-Mail: zyhberkeley2020@berkeley.edu
Content By Yuhan Zhang – Associate Director

U.S.-China Trade and Investment Cooperation Amid Great Power Rivalry
|By Yuhan Zhang – Associate Director|
The use of economic tools in the pursuit of national-security interests has surged in the wake of growing geopolitical tensions, especially the rivalry between China and the US.
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The death of US–China climate cooperation
|By Yuhan Zhang – Associate Director|
The alarm bells of the climate crisis have been ringing for years. There is an increasing consensus among climate scientists that it is indispensable to hold the increase in the global average temperature within 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But as the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, the United States and China have not […]
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US-China Competition after RCEP
|By Yuhan Zhang – Associate Director|
East Asia Forum, 2021
In November 2020, 15 countries signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) amid a backdrop of deglobalisation and trade protectionism.

Modeling the US-China Trade Conflict: A Utility Theory Approach
|By Yuhan Zhang – Associate Director|
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2021
This paper models the US-China trade conflict initiated in 2018 and attempts to analyze the (optimal) strategic choices of the United States and China.

Chinese Gains from RCEP and Implications for US-China Competition
|By Yuhan Zhang – Associate Director|
BASC News, 2021
Against the backdrop of deglobalization and trade protectionism, 15 countries signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in November 2020.

The US-China Trade War: A Political and Economic Analysis
|By Yuhan Zhang – Associate Director|
Indian Journal of Asian Affairs, 2018
This article attempts to examine the current US-China trade war.