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The Gobi Expeditionary Army: Year Three
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...
Seeing “The Long Peace” through The Fallen of World War Two
Memorial Day year-to-year tends to follow the same format for most Americans. It is a day of remembrance and respect for those who paid the ultimate price for their country. As we do every...
Anchoring Our Roots
Reflections on First Chinese Immigrant-Sponsored Candidate Forum in the National Capital Region by Lily Qi Saturday night, March 26, 2016, exactly one month before the Maryland primary election, over 350 people packed the Cabin...
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...
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...
MORE IS BETTER: LOCAL, PRIVATE SECTOR, AND INDEPENDENT INITIATIVES IN THE U.S.-CHINA RELATIONSHIP
Remarks of Donald M. Bishop Minister-Counselor, Foreign Service of the United States, Retired at the Tai Initiative’s Pacific Northwest Conference on U.S.-China Relations Seattle University, April 12, 2013 It’s an honor for me to...
Two Views of “Seattle”: One Future
One of the significant outcomes for me from the Pacific Northwest Regional Conference on US/China Subnational Relations was hearing another great example of a common reality being perceived differently from two completely different contexts....
U.S. China Public Perceptions Opinion Survey
The Committee of 100, a group whose goals and functions are in line with The Tai Initiative’s, has been taking public opinion survey data on American and Chinese perceptions of one another for over...