Taiwan Symposium: Taiwan, the Almost Invisible Not Quite Country
As a liberal democracy that protects human rights, the only country in Asia that legalized same-sex marriage and adoption, a longstanding U.S. ally, and the lynchpin of the world’s high-tech industry,...
View ArticleTaiwan Symposium: Taiwan, Strategic Ambiguity, and U.S.-China Engagement
In recent years, U.S.-China relations have experienced unprecedented challenges. While both Beijing and Washington publicly deny the coming of a second Cold War, strategic competition, if not rivalry,...
View ArticleSmart Rabbits: American Small Businesspeople, Trade Wars, and the Future of...
There is a Chinese proverb about a smart rabbit, 狡兔三窟,jiǎo tù sān kū in Mandarin. A smart rabbit has three burrows. If one is endangered or destroyed, the rabbit can seek safety in the other two. The...
View ArticleEditor’s Note
This issue of China Currents provides analysis and insights into frictions that have arisen by virtue of China’s emergence as a major force in the world. In our lead article, Doug Barry argues that the...
View ArticleMarketus Presswood: What it is like to study in China as a Black Man
The excerpt was taken from an interview Dr. Marketus Presswood, an assistant professor of history at Spelman College, did on Jan. 25, 2024 with the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations....
View ArticleThe Chinese Style Weapons of the Weak: A Think Piece of Shanghai Tai Chi
After three decades of economic reform along with relatively lessening of political control and ideological restraint, the Chinese government in recent years has tightened the party-state grip. From...
View ArticleThe Global Spectacle of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem
Liu Cixin’s 刘慈欣 2006 novel, The Three-Body Problem 三体, first found a global audience through the publication of Ken Liu’s English translation in 2014. The novel, the first in a trilogy collectively...
View ArticleIndia’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment in the context of China’s Belt and...
Introduction1 India’s development strategy in recent years has been “India for India” and “Make in India.” A form of self-reliance, or “strategic autonomy,” India’s policy approach is a reaction to...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy Through Social Media: the Chinese Way
The Information and Communication Technology revolution has transformed the very nature of contemporary public diplomacy (PD), which M. Holmes defines as “the use of digital information communication...
View ArticleEditor’s Note
This issue of China Currents is eclectic in nature, but the featured articles all relate to how China is trying to influence the world, how China’s historical experience weighs on the present, and how...
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