22nd Sino-US Political and Economic Forum: Report Release and Seminar on “Tech Elites, Political Games, and the Outlook for the U.S. Economy”

On November 24, 2025, the 22nd Sino-US Political and Economic Forum, hosted online by the National Academy of Development and Strategy at Renmin University of China (RUC), was held. The forum was chaired by ZHAO Yong, Research Fellow at the National Academy of Development and Strategy and Professor at the School of Economics, RUC. The report “Tech Elites, Political Games, and the Outlook for the U.S. Economy” was prepared by a research team led by BAO Jianyun, specially-appointed Wu Yuzhang Professor and second-tier professor at RUC. Renowned experts and scholars in related fields, including CHEN Wenxin, SU Hao, WANG Jinbin, WANG Zhengyi, and ZENG Jinghan, jointly provided their analyses.

The first session featured the release of the report “Tech Elites, Political Games, and the Outlook for the U.S. Economy” by BAO Jianyun. The report centers on the following topics:

An analysis of the collective rise of U.S. tech elites

Political participation and political games involving U.S. tech elites

Outlook for U.S. economic growth and industrial development

Outlook for U.S. trade and financial development

In the second session of the forum, experts engaged in in-depth discussions on the related topics and the content of the report. CHEN Wenxin, Director of the Institute of American Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, noted that the report provides a multidimensional and in-depth analysis of the collective rise of U.S. tech elites and offers important insights. SU Hao, Founding Director of the Center for Strategic and Peace Studies at the China Foreign Affairs University and Deputy Dean of the Institute for Global Governance and Development at RUC, highly praised the report for its pioneering and practical significance in the study of U.S. tech elites. Professor WANG Jinbin from the School of Economics at RUC analyzed the internal and external challenges currently facing the United States, and their far-reaching implications for globalization, from the core logic of capital return maximization. Professor WANG Zhengyi, Member of the Academic Committee and Associate Dean of the Division of Social Sciences at Peking University, affirmed the report’s contemporary value from a broad perspective of global political economy. ZENG Jinghan, Professor and Associate Dean of the Institute for Global Governance and Innovation at City University of Hong Kong, and Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Forum on Technology and Global Affairs (an English journal published by Cambridge University Press), offered high praise for the report from the perspective of a Chinese scholar who has studied and worked in the U.K. and the U.S. for 16 years. He further elaborated on two key issues, the first being the ethnic composition of U.S. tech elites and the complexity of “technonationalism.”

Proofread by ZHAO Yong, BAO Jianyun

Translated by ZHANG Yuqing

Web Editor: ZHANG Jingjing