Fewer opportunities, less passion, no clue? How the US’ China expertise is fading
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As the US marks its 250th anniversary, it faces a world order shaped by relations with China. This series explores US-China ties from technology to culture. An article by Meredith Chen suggests that reduced academic exchanges and tensions are diminishing America's experience-based understanding of China, which previously relied on direct contact rather than modern surveillance methods.
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US-China relationship is described as dominant in the new world order.
The series examines pressure points and possibilities in US-China ties from hard tech to soft power.
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Tensions and shrinking academic exchange may be eroding America's deep, experience-based understanding of China.
Prediction- US-China relationship is described as dominant in the new world order.
- Geopolitical tensions are causing reduced academic exchanges.
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Loaded language removedAs the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, it faces a new world order dominated by its relationship with China. In this wide-ranging series, we examine the key factors and potential developments in those ties, from hard tech to soft power.
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Tensions and shrinking academic exchange may be eroding America's deep, experience-based understanding of China.
PredictionLong before China could be studied through satellite images, social media, big data, there was a different kind of understanding.
South China Morning PostThe United States is marking its 250th anniversary.
South China Morning PostThe US confronts a new world order dominated by its relationship with China.
South China Morning PostThe series examines pressure points and possibilities in US-China ties from hard tech to soft power.
South China Morning Post