Obama and Hu have pledged for 100,000 American students to come to China over the next four years (up from the current 13,000 a year), so what could that look like? US Ambassador Huntsman addressed FACES, a group of American & Chinese students, on...

“It may have made certain people in this society feel better about themselves, but if the goal is changing behaviors in China…” “…or obtaining political or diplomatic results with China, I think the evidence is the contrary,” criticizes Howard French,...

Many Western observers of China are familiar — perhaps too familiar — with China and the Chinese regularly complaining about foreigners meddling in its internal affairs. It was brought out for 2008’s Lhasa, Tibet riots as well as 2009’s Urumqi,...

“What does all this mean for scholars who work so hard to deflate this false conflation of westernization and modernization?” Kelly Hammond, Ph.D. candidate in Chinese History at Georgetown University, wonders how a fizzy drink like Pepsi became the...

I first learned about 2012 during a visit to the States this past summer and was instantly sold on the doomsday scenario. Though it stars John Cusack and Danny Glover (as the United States President no less. What happened to Morgan Freeman? Oh right,...