On September 29, 2024, the USC U.S.-China Institute hosted a workshop at the Huntington’s Chinese garden, offering K-12 educators hands-on insights into using the garden as a teaching tool. With expert presentations, a guided tour, and new resources, the event explored how Chinese gardens' rich history and cultural significance can be integrated into classrooms. Interested in learning more? Click below for details on the workshop and upcoming programs for educators.
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Matthew Olsen, Countering Nation-State Threats, February 23, 2022
The head of the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division, Matthew Olsen, spoke on February 23, 2022. While emphasizing the size and persistence of the threat of the Chinese government, Olsen also announced the Department was ending its China Initiative. Then Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the initiative on November 1, 2018. Olsen spoke at George Mason University.
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, "Hearing on Commercial Cyber Espionage and Barriers to Digital Trade in China (Webcast)," June 15, 2015
This hearing was conducted by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on June 15, 2015. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission was created by the U.S. Congress in 2000 to monitor, investigate, and submit to Congress an annual report on the national security implications of the economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, "Roundtable: U.S.-China Cybersecurity Issues," July 11, 2013
This roundtable was conducted by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on July 11, 2013. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission was created by the U.S. Congress in 2000 to monitor, investigate, and submit to Congress an annual report on the national security implications of the economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, “Investigative Report on the U.S. National Security Issues Posed by Chinese Telecommunications Companies Huawei and ZTE,” October 8, 2012
The House Committee is headed by Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) and Ranking Member C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland).
U.S. Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, "Foreign Spies Stealing U.S. Economic Secrets in Cyberspace," released Nov. 3, 2011
Report written by U.S. Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive. Full report available at the link below.
Central Intelligence Agency, Two CIA Prisoners in China, 2006 and 2010
This article and documentary tells the story John T. Downey and Richard G. Fecteau. Both men were CIA officers who were captured, imprisoned, and eventually released from a Beijing prison.
Testimony of Larry M. Wortzel Before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, 2008.
Hearing on “Enforcement of Federal Espionage Laws”
The Cox Report and the US - China Arms Control Technical Exchange Program, 1999
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Cox Report, 1999
The Report of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, commonly known as the Cox Report, is a U.S. government document reporting on the People's Republic of China's covert operations within the United States during the 1980s and 1990s.
The Art of China Watching
Document was declassified and made public in the mid 1990s.
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