Data

Team: Jack Zhang (University of Kansas), Spencer Shanks (University of Kansas)

The Chinese Economic Sanctions Dataset (CES v.1 aka China TIES) includes 135 episodes where China is the sender and 88 episodes where it is the target from 1949-2020. We use the Threat and Imposition of Economic Sanctions dataset (TIES v.4) as a baseline for identifying and coding sanctions episodes and provide a set of standardized narratives documenting each episode with secondary sources. CES v.1 amends, updates, and cross-reference China-related episodes in widely used sanctions data sources such as EUSANCT and GSDB v.2 in addition to TIES. The result is a dataset that is interoperable with TIES but also contains new CES variables that better capture the informal nature of many Chinese sanctions. Over 70% of our cases were not captured by the existing datasets. We gratefully acknowledge financial support through the Minerva Research Initiative (FA9550-21-1-0143).

The result is a dataset that is interoperable with TIES but also contains new variables that better capture the informal nature of many Chinese sanctions. We are committed to updating and expanding China TIES in real-time and to releasing major updates every 3-4 years. China TIES is freely available and interested researchers can download the data directly from our GitHub page. The growing library of China TIES narratives can be found here. 

We just ask that, if you use China TIES data, please cite this paper: Zhang, Jiakun Jack and Shanks, Spencer. "Measuring Chinese Economic Sanctions 1949-2020: Introducing the China TIES Dataset." Conflict Management and Peace Science. (2024) 

Team: Jack Zhang (University of Kansas), Jianbing Li (University of Kansas), Duoji Jiang (University of Chicago)

GitHub:  https://github.com/Trade-War-Lab/China-Media

Please cite: Jianbing Li, Jiakun Jack Zhang, Duoji Jiang, Weifeng Zhong. "China’s Domestic Politics and Editorial Control over Foreign News Coverage in the People’s Daily, 1993–2022." Journal of Contemporary China (2025)

Militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) involving China from 1949-2019 collected for dissertation.

Team: Jack Zhang (University of Kansas)

Team: Jack Zhang (University of Kansas), Uras Demir (University of Kansas), Spencer Shanks (University of Kansas)

Tough on China bills in U.S. House & Senate 1989-2023

Team: Jack Zhang (University of Kansas) and Kristopher Long (University of Kansas)

Partnership with QuantGov at the Mercatus Center and the Mercatus Center Policy Analytics Research Program.

Team: Jack Zhang (University of Kansas), Samantha Vortherms (UCI), Rigao Liu (University of Kansas)

Replication data: FIE 1 Trade War

Replication data: FIE 2 US

Replication data: FIE 3 Japan

Team: Jack Zhang (University of Kansas), Timothy Cichanowitz (University of Kansas), Samantha Vortherms (UCI)