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...
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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...
My Internship With Tai Initiative
Kayla Blomquist was The Tai Initiative’s youngest intern this year. We asked her to share her perspective as a freshmen student on how her work with us shaped her college experience and outlook. Interning...
A New Kind of Diplomacy
Note: This article originally appeared in Asian Avenue Magazine Thirty five years after the U.S. and the P.R.C. first established diplomatic ties, some of the most promising developments in that relationship are occurring not at...
Building a Bilingual Organization
The Tai Initiative values working in both English and 中文. Though we are just beginning this effort, you will see examples throughout this website of 我们 putting a bilingual nature to work in our...
Importance of the Subnational Level Confirmed by Joint Study
The report doesn’t specifically use the word “subnational.” But that doesn’t diminish the thrill I felt when reading it this morning. Recently, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California and...
Key Points for U.S.-China Relations
By: Carson Tavenner From 27 years of military service, teaching, and work in the non-profit sector, I’ve come to realize to move forward, Americans need to enlarge their thinking about China. Here are some key...
Sister Cities International’s U.S.-China Conference
By: Ben Leffel Many years ago, my studies of U.S.-China subnational relations began with a project in which I contacted some 60 U.S. and 30 Chinese cities about their bilateral sister city relationships.—This past...
Wealth Creation in U.S.-China Subnational Relations: The Importance for Business
By: Ben Leffel All business occurs at the local level. The key to understanding the significant impact subnational U.S.-China relations have on creating business opportunities is recognizing the specializations that occur at the local...
Engaging Portland: A Day in the Life of TI
Leadership. Networking. Promoting civil dialogue. These are the Tai Initiative’s by-words to promote and nurture positive behaviors in the American-Chinese relationship. Sounds great, but how does it really work? What do we do to...
