“When the Chinese back themselves into a corner like this — with foreigners involved and a lot of foreign scrutiny, they can become very obdurate,” says Orville Schell. via The Current U.S.-China Standoff Has A Precedent : NPR.
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Mentions and quotes in the press.
Frenzied Hours for U.S. on Fate of a China Insider
“It would be incredibly foolish for the U.S. to play any public cards in this very messy Chinese family feud,” said Orville Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. “The U.S. and China urgently…
Frenzied Hours for U.S. on Fate of a China Insider
“It would be incredibly foolish for the U.S. to play any public cards in this very messy Chinese family feud,” said Orville Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. “The U.S. and China urgently…
Even in Death, Fang Lizhi’s Calls for Chinese Political Reform Resonate Strongly
“Fang’s fearlessness appeared deeply rooted in his personality,” Orville Schell (夏偉), an eminent American journalist and China hand who once studied Chinese language at National Taiwan University, wrote in an article for the Atlantic Monthly in 1988. In the article,…
U.S. Keeping Close Eye on Chinese Upheaval
U.S. officials are closely watching the scandal in China engulfing onetime rising star Bo Xilai as a key test of the Communist Party leadership’s ability to maintain credibility with the Chinese public, especially the political and economic elites. via U.S.…
China’s Leadership Had ‘Knives Out’ for Bo Xilai
ORVILLE SCHELL, director, Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations: “Well, I think, quite apart from any charges of corruption which may be proven against him, I think his real affront was that he was incredibly flamboyant. And rather than just…
Fang Lizhi, Who Inspired Chinese Dissidents, Dies
“Democracy is built from the bottom up,” he told students at Shanghai’s Tongji University in November 1986, according to an account by longtime China watcher Orville Schell. “Although we seldom dare utter the words ‘human rights,’ actually human rights are…
Is The Economy Of China More Free And Capitalist Than That Of US?
It is beyond obvious that the United States does not have a free market and that its economy is not capitalist. Whether “China Does Capitalism Better than America” was debated by Ian Bremmer, Minxin Pei, Orville Schell,a and Peter Schiff…
Intelligence Squared U.S. Audience Does Not Agree That “China Does Capitalism Better than America”
ORVILLE SCHELL: “Who would have thought five or 10 years ago, that we would be sitting here tonight even having this debate, that there would be any kind of equilibrium even to discuss between these two great economic systems. No…
At N.Y.U., A Debate on Whether China is ‘Better at Capitalism’ Than The U.S. That Never Quite Escapes The Absurdity of the Premise
Schell said he recently went to meet Chinese governors with California governor Jerry Brown. “Every one of those governors and party secretaries came with ten guys with black suits, you know, from trade, from energy, from manufacturing,” Schell said. “Brown…