America-China Relationship Progress through Subnational Leadership
TI intern Sun Zheng shares a reflection on his spring 2021 experience. 美国是一个令无数人向往的国家，它有充满童年快乐的迪士尼乐园；有充斥着奢靡气息的“天使之城”；也有世界上著名的公立大学系统，加利福尼亚大学。七年前，我怀揣着对美国的种种向往登上了飞往美国的飞机，开启了我的留学之旅。七年的时间里，我有许多难忘的经历。比如，努力之后的成功和快乐，与朋友分别时不舍的泪水，当然还有COVID-19带来的恐惧。这些经历帮助我不断地学习和成长，也正是这些难忘的经历帮助我成功毕业，并拿到了The Tai Initiative的实习资格。 The United States is a country to which countless people aspire. It has a Disneyland full of childhood happiness,...
2021年5月的城市分享：科罗拉多州丹佛市 丹佛与昆明缔结的姐妹城市的关系 The Denver-Kunming Sister-City Relationship 自1986年以来，丹佛与昆明缔结为正式的姐妹城市已经有34年。这34年的历史主要可以分为三个部分，建立关系（1999年之前）；关系的中期（2000-2005年）；以及关系的近代（2006年至今）。 Denver and Kunming have been official sister cities for thirty-four years, since 1986. The thirty-four years of history can be separated into three parts, the establishment of...
The Beijing Exploring Culture Development Holding Company, Ltd. and The Tai Initiative are once again working together this summer to bring practical lessons about leadership to dozens of Chinese youth, helping and guiding them to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
