2026 SCCEI China Conference

2026 SCCEI China Conference on China's Innovation Ecosystem

Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institution's (SCCEI) hosted its third annual conference on May 7, 2026. The conference convened leading experts to examine why prevailing frameworks consistently underestimate China’s industrial performance and assess how its technology ecosystem, industrial policies, and trade strategies function and interact to push many critical sectors to the frontier.

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Conference in Review

Rush Doshi speaks behind a podium at the SCCEI China Conference

To Counter China's Scale, the U.S. Must Build Allied Scale, Reasons Rush Doshi in Keynote Address

Rush Doshi, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and an assistant professor at Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service, laid out an eight-point blueprint for transforming U.S. alliances into an engine of shared economic and industrial capacity.

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Understanding “DeepSeek Moments”: Insights from the SCCEI China Conference 2026

Panels of experts from Stanford and around the world convened to discuss China's innovation ecosystem. Conversations moved across semiconductors, biotechnology, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, and global trade—and a common thread ran through all of them: the world’s prevailing frameworks for assessing China’s innovative capacity often underestimate it, and the consequences of that blind spot are growing.

Review Key Takeaways from the Conference