The White House’s attempt to bar many foreign students from returning to the US to continue their studies threatens to damage America’s reputation for educational tolerance and intellectual inquiry – not to mention the fact that it may well turn foreign students against the US.

As the pandemic worsened in China, support came from people and businesses in the United States. Then, when the U.S. situation worsened, Chinese people stepped in with assistance. The two governments should follow this example and cooperate, rather than allowing relations to deteriorate further.

Of the many efforts the United States has made to decouple with China, its moves to prohibit cultural exchanges, including advanced studies, are least likely to work and undermine a key stabilizer in relations.

The United States’ history of Chinese exclusion demonstrates that a healthy U.S.-China relationship ultimately depends on how the U.S. and its people view China. The growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S. is setting the ever-important bilateral relationship on a dangerous path.

Given the series of barbs traded between the United States and China lately, many observers are concerned that trust between the two is eroding permanently. But it can be saved.

Kobe Bryant’s tragic passing and China’s wide-spread admiration for the American basketball star remind us that U.S.-China relations are not just state-to-state relations. Instead, they should also be seen ¬as people-to-people relations.

The U.S.-China relationship is undoubtedly weakening. Bridging the educational endeavors of the two nations may pave the pathway to more harmonious Sino-American relations.

Between China and the US, one nation’s rise is not equivalent to the other’s demise. The United States and China must commit to each other’s prosperity if they want to reach a successful concession in their trade dispute.

Communication is about image. The image of a country, similar with those of a corporation or individual, generally includes three dimensions: first, who you are, and what kind of a person you are; second, what you say you are and are like; third, what others say you are and are like. When images of the three dimensions coincide, they would basically result in a complete and objective image. If they are partly missing or diverge too much from one another, the subsequent image may easily be distorted, or unconvincing.

I recently flew to China for an academic conference on some of the geopolitical and security issues dividing Washington and Beijing. I had attended the same event two years before and enjoyed the wide-ranging discussion. The conference was to bring together scholars from throughout Asia and beyond.