“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.…
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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…
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…
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…
China Puts Best Face Forward With News Channel
“While our media empires are melting away like the Himalayan glaciers, China’s are expanding,” said Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York and a former dean of the journalism school at…
THE DESPAIR OF ORVILLE SCHELL | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog
Displaying a gift for comic timing that eludes most former UC Berkeley journalism professors, Orville Schell voices his concern over Himalayan melting – on the very same day that Himalayan non-melting hit the headlines. “Lately, I’ve been studying the climate-change-induced…
Can the U.S. Match China’s Efforts?
As the Asia Society’s Orville Schell has noted, “Without [the United States and China] in the climate-change game, there is, in effect, no game at all, and Copenhagen cannot succeed.” via Can the US match China’s efforts? | Hou Yanli…
China-U.S. Relations on Right Track in Time of Great Challenge
He welcomed the new “U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue” mechanism which was revealed in a White House statement following the bilateral summit. “I think this is really a positive step forward. It means we will be discussing more than just…
Answers From Orville Schell
“Of all the environmental problems which confront China, there is none greater than that presented by the country’s abundance of coal. On the one hand, this bounty of coal has provided China with an ready source of energy with which…