On November 28, 2023, the Council on Foreign Relations’ program on U.S.-Korea Policy held an in-person workshop on U.S.-South Korea policy coordination toward China on supply chain resiliency.
Economists used new methods to examine how many U.S. jobs have been lost to machine automation, and how many have been created as technology leads to new tasks. On net, and particularly since 1980, technology has replaced more U.S. jobs than it has generated.
Most U.S. workers are in occupations that have only emerged widely since 1940, according to a large-scale study of 80 years of U.S. census data, led by MIT economist David Autor.
On November 14, 2023, the Council on Foreign Relations’ program on U.S.-Korea Policy held an in-person workshop on U.S.-South Korea policy coordination toward China on maritime security.
Cheng Li is a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He was a senior fellow at Brookings from 2006 to 2023 and served as director of the John L. Thornton China Center from 2014-2023. Li serves as professor of political science and founding director of the Centre on Governance of China and the World at the University of Hong Kong.