The US-China Education Trust has successfully concluded the 2025 Students Finding Common Ground program, which brought together American and Chinese students to explore pressing areas of collaboration amid ongoing strategic competition and tensions between the two countries. Students Finding Common Ground—US-China Collaborative Projects in An Era of Strategic Competition engaged thirty-two students, selected through a…
On April 25, USCET hosted its final meeting of the 2025 Students Finding Common Ground program. Each of the four project teams, co-presented by an American and a Chinese student, shared their semester-long collaborations on topics including public health, education, peace and conflict resolution, and environmental sustainability. After each presentation, mentors and advisors provided thoughtful…
On March 28, USCET hosted its monthly Students Finding Common Ground virtual meeting, convening students, mentors, and advisors from the U.S. and China for the third meeting of the program. The month’s session featured two distinguished guest speakers from the field of public health: Dr. Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council…
PUBLIC HEALTH GROUP MENTOR TANG Bei is a China Forum Expert, and Associate Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai International Studies University. He is a distinguished academic and practitioner in the field of public health, with a specialized focus on China’s health policy, international health relations, and global health governance. As an…
PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION STUDENTS Wang Xingyi is an undergraduate student from the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University. Her work and research experience in international relations includes positions at the United Nations, Chinese and American think tanks, research institutions, and political risk advisory. Xingyi has worked as a Translation/Interpretation Assistant at the Office of…
The US-China Education Trust, in cooperation with Tsinghua University and George Washington University, has re-launched the Students Finding Common Ground—US-China Collaborative Projects in An Era of Strategic Competition project for its second iteration in 2025. The project brings American and Chinese students together, working on areas where US-China cooperation is urgently needed in an era…
The US-China Education Trust, in cooperation with Tsinghua University and DC-area schools, is launching the Spring 2025 Common Ground project to advance our mission of bringing American and Chinese students together. Students will work on areas where US-China cooperation is urgently needed in an era of competition and tension between the two countries. All activities…
The US-China Education Trust, in cooperation with Tsinghua University and George Washington University, has completed our new projects to bring American and Chinese students together. These projects worked on areas where US-China cooperation is urgently needed in an era of competition and tension between the two countries. Students Finding Common Ground—US China Collaborative Projects in…
Agriculture is one of the few sectors in the economy where the way we do business and farming can help solve our planet’s challenge, today and in the future. Dr. Ying Li, Conservation and Agriculture Director at the Nature Conservancy China, made this statement come alive in her information-packed presentation for the Common Ground group. …
Below are updates from our four student group projects as of mid April 2024! Final project presentations will be posted in summer 2024. ————— Common Ground Education Group Update The Common Ground Education Group has recently achieved two main objectives. First, we have been conducting interviews with American students studying in China. To date, we…
