<p>JHU SAIS has the best program in China studies in the world, david lampton is the best non Chinese scholar on Chinese foreign policy in the world. It also requires you to take a concentration in International economics is a boon to you because what you want to do later. But the China Studies program has become one of the most competitive programs at SAIS. In general the students are a bit older from others and they have spent years in China and indeed have fluent Chinese as in reading writing everything 4 years of college education and one or two years in China is definitely not enough for fluency and I’d suggest you write proficient in it if you indeed decide to send your transcripts. Your grades are very high and but you will need to take the GRE but if you can work for the German consulate that will be of great help. In general if you want to do an area studies in SAIS, especially the Asian ones the people I know that are in the China/Korea/Japan programs have EXTENSIVE experience in their respective region. Columbia University is also good for China related and East Asia in general and at SIPA you would be able to take classes at the Weatherhead institute of East Asian Studies. UCSD’s program is Asia specific in general but I don’t know much about them. Georgetown is strong in the Middle East and not that much in China even though they do have a fantastic Japan specialist there. Take the GRE, spend 2-4 years in China to really boost up your language ability and your understanding of the region (2012 Xi JinPing will be the new chairman and its a really exciting time to be in China due to the fact that China will be losing what probably has become their most successful chairman ever even though the censors now are really really going at it and its hard to go on to non Chinese websites even with a VPN)</p>