Qin Xiaoying, Research Scholar, China Foundation For Int'l and Strategic Studies
May 20, 2019
Among leaders and everyday Chinese alike, talk of social credit is rife. The goal of establishing a social credit regime by 2020 has led to targeting of malfeasance in all realms of society, from government conduct to business practices to individual fraud, in a sign that China’s leaders expect the country to raise its standards of accountability.
May 20, 2019
Pei had always been proud of his Chinese ancestry. He also was committed to his American lineage.
Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government , Claremont McKenna College
May 17, 2019
Late last month at a security forum in Washington, DC, Kiron Skinner, Director of Policy Planning for the US Department of State, described today’s US-China conflict as “a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology, and the United States hasn’t had that before.” As a trial balloon, this apparent attempt to define the Trump administration’s confrontation with China did not fly.
Hannah Feldshuh, Analyst
May 15, 2019
There are clear consequences to deteriorating quality and reciprocity in China-U.S. educational exchange. Lack of understanding of the differences between both political systems means that policy will be crafted based on outdated information.
Jacob Hafey, Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) candidate, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
May 10, 2019
A series of serendipitous interactions between Chinese and American ping-pong players helped thaw the ice between their two governments in the 1970s. The shocking success of “ping-pong diplomacy” shows the unexpectedly major role that can sports can play in bridging hostile divides and bringing together former foes on a common playing field.
Philip Cunningham, Independent Scholar
May 08, 2019
Racing for the exit in bilateral exchange programs threatens to take out of circulation the trust and goodwill that have helped both China and the U.S. prosper and keep the peace in one of the most remarkable bilateral relationships in history.
Robert I. Rotberg, Founding Director of Program on Intrastate Conflict, Harvard Kennedy School
Apr 30, 2019
Chinese and Vietnamese authorities are aware of the massive trade of poached animals. Both countries should ban the trafficking of animals from Africa, and launch a massive education campaign for consumers.
Mikaila Smith, J.D. Candidate at the University of Chicago Law School
Apr 30, 2019
For billions of people, not just in China, but all over the world, toxic air pollution is a daily fact of life. To change this, we must address consumerist lifestyles, short-term values and profit-driven frameworks that have spurred climate change and created deadly environmental problems such as air pollution.
Hannah Feldshuh, Analyst
Apr 29, 2019
In both China and the United States, domestic violence is an enduring and ugly issue that lacks a fully effective public policy response for complex reasons.
Ma Shikun, Senior Journalist, the People’s Daily
Apr 29, 2019
The US has recently begun denying visas to Chinese scholars not just in sensitive high-tech areas, but in the social sciences and liberal arts. These moves not only threaten America’s reputation for open-minded exchange with the outside world—some China experts in the US fear that the FBI’s actions are a warning of even more aggressive and paranoid “decoupling” of US-China relations in the days to come.