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-74 posts tagged "China"
Liam Kelly | Monday, March 6, 2023
“It is the biggest challenge that we have faced since World War II, and we have to get ready for that challenge,” Notre Dame professor Joshua Eisenman said of the United States’ relationship with China during a lecture Friday morning. Eisenman is an associate professor of politics in the Keough School of Global Affairs. His
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Foreign meddling in democratic elections in North America sounds like a familiar story. This time, however, we do not need to rehash the particulars of the Mueller Report and allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. No, this saga is playing out north of the border in Canada, and almost nobody in
Pablo Lacayo | Wednesday, March 1, 2023
One of my favorite classes this semester has been Politics of China, a solid political science course dedicated to the history of Chinese politics since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in the fall of 1949. I have been able to learn a great deal about China’s journey from near anarchy in the
Liam Kelly | Thursday, February 23, 2023
Over the past few weeks, the United States has witnessed a heightening of tensions with China, raising concerns about a potential conflict between the two world powers. On Feb. 4, a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean that had made its way across the U.S. after being
Kelsey Quint | Monday, February 13, 2023
Students and faculty gathered in the Coleman Morse Lounge on Saturday to celebrate Lunar New Year with performances, food and cheerful company. The event was organized by the Chinese language program and department of East Asian languages and cultures. The celebration’s 12 performances were put on by students studying Chinese, and the acts included singing,
Caroline Collins | Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Historian and Rice University professor Tani Barlow defined an event as “a politically inspired action to establish a newly discovered truth.” Barlow’s most recent book, “In the Event of Women,” characterizes women by the way they enact change, rather than as a group or broad idea. At a lecture Wednesday hosted by the Modern Chinese
Isa Sheikh | Friday, November 18, 2022
As President Biden flew back to Washington D.C. from the G20 summit, where he met with Xi Jinping, members of the Notre Dame community stepped out of the snow into Jenkins-Nanovic Hall on Wednesday night for a conversation about U.S.-China relations. Notre Dame was one of 80 locations to partake in the CHINA Town Hall,
Emma Duffy | Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Brendan Carr, a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said the social media app TikTok should be banned in the U.S. The Council on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) has spent months negotiating with TikTok to determine if it can be divested by its Chinese parent company ByteDance creating bleak outlooks and the
Kathryn Muchnick | Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Fiona Cunningham, assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, visited campus Tuesday to present her research on China’s strategy in limited war. Cunningham’s research lies at the intersection of technology and conflict, especially in China. She traveled to Beijing to conduct fieldwork from 2015 to 2017 as a joint Ph.D. research fellow
Liam Kelly | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
“People often say history repeats itself, but we allow history to repeat,” Commissioner Nury Turkel said in his conversation with Stephanie Barclay, a professor at the Notre Dame Law School, this Monday. In the talk, Turkel detailed the ongoing genocide against the Uyghur people in China. Turkel, who was born in a Chinese “re-education” camp, is