--- title: Susan L. Shirk | TIME description: Shirk is a Research Professor and Chair of the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego. From 1997-2000, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia. Shirk is the author of Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise. canonical: https://time.com/author/susan-l-shirk/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/susan-l-shirk/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Susan L. Shirk ## Susan L. Shirk Shirk is a Research Professor and Chair of the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego. From 1997-2000, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia. Shirk is the author of [Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/overreach-9780190068516?cc=us&lang=en&). ## Susan L. Shirk *  Oct 17, 2022 ### [Don’t Give Up on Diplomacy with China](https://time.com/6222513/china-xi-jinping-diplomacy/) Dialogue and negotiation are essential to determine whether Xi Jinping might be persuaded to moderat... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/susan-l-shirk/","name":"Susan L. Shirk"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/susan-l-shirk/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/susan-l-shirk/"},"name":"Susan L. Shirk","jobTitle":null,"description":"Shirk is a Research Professor and Chair of the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego. From 1997-2000, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia. Shirk is the author of Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise.","url":"https://time.com/author/susan-l-shirk/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```