The world’s biggest corporation and the world’s most populous nation have launched a bold experiment in consumer behavior and environmental stewardship: to set green standards for 20,000 suppliers making several hundred thousand items sold to billions of shoppers worldwide. Will…
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Orville Schell Discusses US-China Trade on Bloomberg
While the relocation of so many manufacturing jobs to China has fundamentally altered the structure of the U.S. economy, Schell believes blaming China for America’s current economic malaise misrepresents the true situation. The United States should “look in the mirror…
When Can the Chinese Expect Their Arab Spring?
“The teleology of history has us heading toward more openness and freedom, but has this new and very effective Chinese model hijacked history?” asks Orville Schell, of the Asia Society. “Hillary Clinton told you what she said because she believes…
A Hot Topic for Davos: China’s Big Challenges
“There’s a muscular resistance to any kind of cooperation that might seem like yielding to U.S. demands and interests,” Mr. Schell said. “For the last hundred years, China has wanted to be in the position where it’s not pushed around.…
Hu Gets Full State Honors as Visit Displays Obama’s Dueling Views of China
Schell compared a state visit to a reaffirmation of marriage vows between a long-married couple. “It’s not that the relationship is terrible,” he said. “It’s that it has a funny way of declining in between the re- declaration of vows…
Obama, Hu Jintao Have Clean Energy Opportunity San Francisco Chronicle
Among the many difficult issues Presidents Obama and Hu Jintao will confront when they meet this week stands one possible bright spot: collaboration on clean energy technology. It represents a critical, urgent need, an enormous market opportunity for both nations…
Clinton Says United States Not Trying to Contain China
“She’s saying, ‘We’re still trying to have a reciprocal relationship, but if it doesn’t work, we’re hedging our bets,’ ” said Orville Schell, who heads the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. via Clinton Says United States Not Trying…
Richard Holbrooke in Asia The New Republic
While sitting in Istanbul‘s Attaturk International Airport waiting for a flight, I was stunned to hear a BBC announcer report that my colleague and friend U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke had just died. I knew that he had been rushed to…
Orville Schell: Climate Change and How It Complicates US-China Relations
Schell explained that one of the main causes of this accelerated melting process is coal emissions generated from electricity production. The US and China are the world’s leading users of coal. However, Shell noted that, “China’s leaders have realized the…
U.S. Expert Expects U.S-China Collaboration at G20 Summit
“The main place where I expect the breakthrough (of G20 Summit) is between the U.S. and China. We both recognize that we cannot go alone. That’s not the solution,” said Prof. Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of Center on U.S.-China…