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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Vietnam, the United States and China Today – Insights from the Consul General (MLF)
Nguyen Ba Hung, Consul General of Vietnam in San Francisco the Socialist Republic of Vietnam will discuss the relations between Vietnam, the United States and China today.
Maritime Security Challenges 2018: Pacific Seapower
The Navy League of Canada in association with the Royal Canadian Navy hosts a conference in British Columbia focusing on Pacific seapower.
Conference: Maritime Frontiers in Asia: Indigenous Communities and State Control in South China and Southeast Asia, 2000 BCE - 1800 CE
This conference provides a platform for discussing maritime frontier zones in pre-modern China and Southeast Asia.
The Rise of China and Japan’s New Security Strategy
UC Berkeley's Center for Chinese Studies hosts a talk with Narushige Michishita
Is Armed Conflict with China Avoidable?
The Commonwealth Club of California presents Professor Christopher Twomey who will speak on China's foreign policy and security issues in East Asia.
The Crucial Connection between China’s Economy and Its Foreign Policy
In the past, concerns raised by China's bad debt bubbles have raised no alarms because of China's $4 trillion in foreign exchange reserves. Now, those reserves are at $3 trillion and declining. Just what trajectory those reserves take may have an enormous impact on China's foreign policy choices - whether to turn inward or to become ever more assertive.
The U.S. and China: Partners, Rivals, or Adversaries?
The National Committee on American Foreign Policy hosts a discussion of the U.S.-China relationship and it's future.
US-China Relations: Can Conflict Be Avoided?
The Foreign Policy Research Institute presents Dr. Jacqueline Deal, exploring the rise, the potential for conflict, and US policy responses to China in a "Main Line Breakfast Briefing".
China, the Internet, and Google
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China presents a hearing on the impact of China's Internet policies on the development of human rights and on the development of commercial rule of law in China.
The Military and Militarization of Republican China
The Republican period in Chinese history saw wars on multiple fronts, with invasions from without and civil strife from within. The period was shaped by wars that traumatized and transformed society. Papers by scholars from China, the US, and Europe, including work informed by new archival materials and interdisciplinary in approach, analyze the issue of "militarization" and look into the way wars, and the institutionalization or routinization of violence, might have shaped the culture of Republican China.
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