The Pacific Power Index
From moguls to migrants, Harvard to Huawei: 50 people shaping the future of the U.S.-China relationship.
The world’s most important relationship isn’t the superpower showdown most analysts would have you believe.
It’s a constantly shifting, symbiotic relationship shaped by millions
of people, not just officials in Washington and Beijing. They range from
the mayor of Wichita, Kansas to a hacker in Shanghai; from a
self-described “Berkeley hippie” who defends modern Chinese communism to
the Beijing-based inventor of e-cigarettes; and from an American casino
magnate reshaping China’s version of Las Vegas to an unsung migrant
worker in the gritty town of Dongguan.
But Foreign Policy’s inaugural Pacific Power Index is not a list of the 50 most powerful individuals in the U.S.-China relationship. Instead, it is a story about the power of that nexus itself, and its ability to impact American and Chinese lives. Each person recognized here has been profoundly shaped by the intersections — sometimes the collisions — of these two great powers. Taken together, their 50 stories illuminate the vast architecture that links the two countries, a largely invisible series of bridges spanning the realms of business, government, finance, military, media, and academia.
But Foreign Policy’s inaugural Pacific Power Index is not a list of the 50 most powerful individuals in the U.S.-China relationship. Instead, it is a story about the power of that nexus itself, and its ability to impact American and Chinese lives. Each person recognized here has been profoundly shaped by the intersections — sometimes the collisions — of these two great powers. Taken together, their 50 stories illuminate the vast architecture that links the two countries, a largely invisible series of bridges spanning the realms of business, government, finance, military, media, and academia.
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