Dr. Li Jinkui
Dr. Li Jinkui is a Senior Research Fellow of the China Development Institute with a focus on Finance revenue, Urban Planning and management, tourism programming, and urbanization of rural areas.Mr. Li Jinkui used to...
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David Firestein
David J. Firestein is EastWest Institute’s Vice President for the Strategic Trust-Building Initiative and Track 2 Diplomacy. In this capacity, he oversees EWIs China, East Asia and United States Program and Russia and United...
Dr. Terry Cooke
Terry Cooke is the founder of the China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, a non-profit platform to accelerate public-private collaboration between Greater Philadelphia and China in clean energy and energy-efficient buildings. He is also a...
Dr. Kevin Stringer
Kevin D. Stringer, Ph.D. is an adjunct faculty member at the Joint Special Operations University in Tampa, Florida, and a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations at West Point. A...
Memorial Day in a U.S.-China Relations Context
You might have recently been disturbed by reports from the South China Sea. Currently the national forces of the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China are interacting in increasingly dangerous...
Essential and Subtle
“How do I stop?” asked the giggling Chinese teacher as she swerved around the other beginning ice skaters. I demonstrated, explained, and asked “怎么说 ‘spin’ ”? The two of us, a nineteen year-old American...
Hosting an international visitor for Thanksgiving: Citizen diplomacy at its finest
Enjoying an international encounter One of the very best elements of any international encounter is when a visitor can participate in a family or community’s expression of tradition. Such events are the very center...
What We Can Learn From California
As people all over the U.S. fret over rush hour traffic, crumbling infrastructure, and high gas prices, California may have found a solution. The development of a high-speed rail is underway in the Golden...
China’s Seattle: Chengdu by Jessica DiPietro
After my first year as an Intern with the Tai Initiative, I joined an intensive summer 2014 language program at Sichuan University. I learned so much more than just Chinese in Chengdu, but found...
Watching Subnational Power in Hong Kong
Comparing current events to past events is all the rage in amateur analysis. That’s why we’re happy to read from Zheng Wang, Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) at Seton Hall University in...
