The power struggle between the United States and China in the Asia-Pacific region is commonly explained in International Relations through Harvard professor Graham Allison's Thucydides Trap concept.

Federal authorities announced Tuesday that former Boston University researcher Yanqing Ye was indicted by a grand jury for charges of conspiracy, visa fraud and acting as an agent of a foreign government. Ye was a researcher at BU’s Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering's Center for Polymer Studies from 2017 to 2019.