While the United Nations General Assembly discusses climate change, Ian Teh and David Breashears will present their photography from the frontiers of this global environmental crisis, in an evening discussion with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on…
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Old hands trade war stories of covering China over the years.|China Daily
“Are we going to accept China for what it is?” asked Orville Schell, a China expert who leads the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society. “Because until that happens, we are not going to resolve many of these…
How Jerry Brown ‘free ranges’ for advice | The Sacramento Bee
“He likes to sort of blue sky with people … just sort of see what’s cooking,” said Orville Schell, who wrote a book about Brown in 1978 and remains in contact with him. “I don’t know any other politician in…
Aug. 18: Screening: Waking the Green Tiger | New York | Asia Society
Q&A featuring Shi Lihong, an environmental activist who contributed footage and is interviewed in this film, moderated by Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society. via Screening: Waking the Green Tiger | New York | Asia…
China Earthquake Prompts Debate on Role of Volunteers | Wall Street Journal
“The ambiguity with which Chinese authorities have faced civil society has always been profound and, of late, more evident,” said Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. via China Earthquake Prompts Debate on Role of Volunteers…
The Conversation: America’s international broadcasters are losing the air wars | The Sacramento Bee
As Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, once put it: “While our media empires are melting away like the Himalayan glaciers, China’s are expanding.” via The Conversation: America’s international broadcasters are losing the…
If China Really Wants Peace, Then It Needs To Prove It | Business Insider
Nonetheless, the Chinese rise has also created unintended consequences that could further elevate hostilities in the region. “How can you keep it clean when you have always been a victim?” wonders Orville Schell. Minor confrontations with the Philippines and Vietnam…
MAY 14: ChinaFile Presents: Evan Osnos | New York | Asia Society
Join New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos for a discussion of his new book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. Based on eight years living in Beijing, Osnos describes the greatest collision currently taking place…
China flexes its muscles in dispute with Vietnam | The Economic Times
“I find it quite alarming, because it was not so many years ago that there was a relatively tranquil relationship between China and its neighbors,” said Orville Schell, a China scholar who is the director of the Center on US-China…
Orville Schell on the rise of China | Minnesota Public Radio News
Orville Schell speaks at the Commonwealth Club of California about his new book “Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century.” He observes that the rapidly transforming country has shifted from “imperial doormat to global economic powerhouse.” He…