The SelectUSA Committee (Shanghai) was formed by the American Chamber of Commerce, the Foreign Commercial Service of the United…
Dr. Filley is professor at Purdue University Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science and part of the forum on EcoPartnerships. His group has several projects designed to study the fundamental processes controlling carbon and nitrogen cycling in soil and…
Tom Peterson founded Center for Climate Strategies in 2004 to help governments and stakeholders understand and formulate responses to climate change. Over the past decade this included developing and implementing a widely recognized template for comprehensive, multi objective, consensus based planning and…
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 devote himself for many years at college to teaching of history of…
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 States Program, as well as the institute’s work on U.S.-Iran trust-building….
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 Senior Fellow at the T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation…
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 former diplomat and international banker, he has…
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 ways.
But there is still plenty of hope for secure relations between…
“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 figure skater, and a fifty year-old Chinese teacher made quite the…
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 of cultural meaning and are often the most memorable parts of foreign travel no matter what other success may take place…
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