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Xiaodong Fang

Xiaodong Fang is a political scientist specialized in presidential elections and U.S.-China relations. His recent academic works appear in the Washington Journal of Modern China (2019), and Review of History and Political Science (2019). He has held several faculty positions and taught the American Presidency at Iowa State University.

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Top Ten Ways China Looms over the Iowa Caucuses

Top Ten Ways China Looms over the Iowa Caucuses

Xiaodong Fang

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – The 2020 Iowa Caucuses will take place on Monday, February 3, 2020, as the first official nominating contest in the presidential races. As presidential candidates and campaign media are heading for the Hawkeye State, China, on the other side of the world, is closely watching the 2020 Iowa […]

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