Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
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Anthony Blinken, “U.S.-China Relations: Strategic Challenges and Opportunities,” April 27, 2016
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Blinken prepared these remarks to open his testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
John Kerry and Wang Yi, Remarks on North Korea, the South China Sea and other topics, February 23, 2016
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met at the U.S. State Department and spoke to the press in the Ben Franklin Room.
Sino-North Korean Trade: Q&A With John S. Park
In 2013 an estimated 90 percent or more of North Korean trade was with Chinese partners. US-China Today spoke with John S. Park of the Harvard Kennedy School and MIT to learn more about the dynamics of Sino-North Korean trade.
John Kerry and Wang Yi, Joint Press Conference, January 27, 2016
Press conference with Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Wang.
Goldstein, Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry (March 31, 2015)
Lyle Goldstein's book was reviewed by Zachary Fredman for H-Diplo and is published here under Creative Commons license.
Council on Foreign Relations, "CFR Backgrounders: The China-North Korea Relationship," August 22, 2014
The Council on Foreign Relations published the backgrounder, "The China-North Korea Relationship", to explain the history behind current relations, North Korea's gains, China's priorities and leverage, and the United States' role. The piece was written by Beina Xu and Jayshree Bajoria.
Shen, Mao, Stalin and the Korean War: Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s, 2012
Zhihua Shen’s book was reviewed by Kathryn Weathersby for the H-Diplo discussion list in April 2013. It is reproduced here under Creative Commons license.
Matray, ed., Northeast Asia and the Legacy of Harry S Truman - Japan, China, and the Two Koreas, 2012
James I. Matray, ed.'s book was reviewed by Luke Griffith for H-War and is published here under Creative Commons license.
Video: North Korea: Following the Chinese Road?
USCI Senior Fellow Mike Chinoy reports on trends he observed during his fifteenth visit to North Korea.
Gary Locke, Testimony before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 26, 2011
Ambassador-designate Gary Locke's testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is the nominee to become President Obama’s next U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China.
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Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
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Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author Mike Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.