America-China Relationship Progress through Subnational Leadership
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...
[info]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.[/info] 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: Kayla Blomquist Travis Tanner, a speaker at the Tai Initiative’s upcoming conference in Denver, is the senior vice president and COO of the 100,000 Strong Foundation. The foundation works to strengthen US-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...
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...
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...
