Competition between the United States and China has grown fierce in recent years, although yet to spillover into outright conflict. While embracing competition, the prior Biden administration worked to stabilize the U.S.-China relationship with "guardrails", including with limited support for people-to-people exchange and even scientific collaboration.

The Yangtze Delta, boasting 1/6 of China's population and 1/4 of its GDP, is a powerhouse of economic activity, home to a highly skilled workforce and a world-class manufacturing ecosystem. This dynamic region offers a unique and fertile ground for innovation-driven solutions.

The mechanisms of social control in China have expanded significantly in the Xi Jinping era. Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will discuss the range of these means of social control used in China, with an emphasis on contagion governance during Covid, the retention of some Covid-era social control mechanisms after Covid, and new tools for social control that have begun to emerge in the post-Covid era.

Join us as we celebrate the 45th anniversary of the China Center with the 2024 Bob and Kim Griffin Building U.S.-China Bridges Lecture.

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Registration closes November 13.

The University of Minnesota China Center invites you to a webinar featuring renowned writer and journalist Peter Hessler.

Since China’s open-door and economic reform policies in the 1980s, when China began to reengage with the world, the need for foreign language teaching (FLT) became a priority. Theorists and practitioners of FLT raised the awareness of understanding its social and cultural knowledge while learning a language. This expansion of FLT to social cultural knowledge led to a growing awareness of the need for intercultural communication. In this presentation, Dr.

The China Center invites new students and scholars from China to a reception, where they can meet current students and faculty from China and learn more about the China Center and the resources available on campus.

Pizza and beverages will be provided.

Speakers:

• Harvey Charles, vice provost for international affairs
• Katie Jackson, associate vice president and dean of students

As the largest economies in the world, the U.S. and China must work together and find solutions to world climate challenges. Undergraduates proposed their ideas as part of the China Center's fourth annual China Bridge Challenge.

The China Center awarded the 2024 Sping Lin and Ying-Ngoh T. Lin Visiting Scholars fellowship to Dr. Juanjuan Wu (pictured), a professor of retail merchandising in the College of Design. With the $7,500 award, Dr. Wu will sponsor a professor from Shanghai University of Engineering Sciences for collaborative research in Chinese fashion.

A University of Minnesota delegation visited China in October, rekindling relationships with partner universities and connecting with alumni. It was the University’s first official visit to China since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.