Nathaniel Ahrens is director of the Office of China Affairs at the University of Maryland. He is also executive director of the American Mandarin Society, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of the future stewards of U.S.-China relations.
As Hollywood finds itself increasingly reliant on attracting China’s huge movie-going audiences to turn a profit on its mega-budget blockbuster films, the Chinese government in return is counting on learning Hollywood’s tricks of the trade to help spread the China
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Dr. Luan Jianzhang will provide an insight on the current foreign policy priorities of the Chinese leadership. As Deputy Director General of the International Department’s Research Office, he is a leading administration official responsible for the strategic planning of the
Mark L. Clifford is the executive director of the Asia Business Council and author of “The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency.” Previously he was editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, publisher and editor-in-chief
In December 2015 we launched our first mentorship program as part of our ongoing collaboration with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Beijing office, known as the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center (CTC). This program, co-managed by Carnegie-Tsinghua and YCW Beijing, has paired