Jin Canrong is currently a senior fellow at the Institute of American Studies (IAS) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Trained in political science, Jin got his Ph.D. from Beijing University, his MA from the Graduate School of CASS, and his BA from the Department of International Studies at Fudan University. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University and at Rutgers University. His research interests include the US Congress, intergovernmental relations in America, civil society and democracy, and Sino-US relations.

He has also served as Deputy Director of the Beijing Pacific Institute for International Strategy Studies, the first non-governmental research institute in the field of international relations in China; Deputy Director of the Center for American Studies at the People’s University of China; Special Adviser for the Research Bureau of the National People’s Congress of China; and Executive editor-in-chief of the Pacific Journal, an academic quarterly published by the Pacific Society of China.

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