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Professor Hu Biliang discusses China’s new urbanization program for the period 2014-2020 and suggests how the government might minimize negative effects of the new policy.
Susan Brownell, a world-renowned authority on Chinese sports and the Olympics, discusses the significance of the bid for China, what it says about China and about the rest of the world.
Jerome Cohen and Ezra Vogel reflect on normalization and how academic study of China has changed over the course of their careers.
Eric Liu pieces together a sense of the Chinese-American identity at a time when China is emerging at the center of the global scene.
Richard Bernstein discusses his new book, China 1945, which examines the first episode in which American power and good intentions came face-to-face with a formidable Chinese revolutionary movement.
The National Committee's sixth annual forum on China's economy will include Justin Lin Yifu and other leading Chinese economists predicting what might happen in 2015.
China’s management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime’s longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears the emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest, as has occurred in many cities around the world, because such cities might threaten the survival of the regime. To combat the threat, many regimes, […]
Zhou Dan discusses LGBT rights in China in an off-the-record roundtable discussion.
Presidents Obama and Xi announced the importance of strengthening bilateral cooperation on climate change during the November 2014 APEC meetings in Beijing, representing the first time, China and the United States have committed to specific targets for reducing greenhouse emissions by 2030. In this on-the-record teleconference moderated by NCUSCR President Steve Orlins just weeks later, […]
The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations held its annual black-tie Gala Dinner on Monday, November 10, 2014 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.
Nicholas R. Lardy, one of the world's foremost experts on the Chinese economy, discusses the increasing role the market forces play in Chinese economic progress.
Carl Minzner, professor at the Fordham University School of Law. discusses the Fourth Plenum and its implications for the development of China's legal system and governance.