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With visit to Taiwan, Pelosi upsets Xi-Biden’s balancing act

August 2, 2022

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has landed in Taiwan, becoming the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island. 

International Reach
International
Foreign Policy
Law and Policy

Ukraine invasion heightens anxiety in Taiwan

March 1, 2022

A U.S. delegation arrived in Taiwan to show support for the nation as leaders are expected to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen this week.

International

China must protect own interests in decision to provide Russia aid

March 14, 2022

A U.S. national security advisor is expected to meet with a top Chinese diplomat in the first high-level talks between the two countries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. The meeting comes as Russia has allegedly asked China for military and economic aid – a claim both deny.

Foreign Policy
International

Contentious issues between U.S., China unlikely to be resolved by zoom call

November 15, 2021

President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold a virtual summit on Monday evening amid rising tensions between the countries.

International
Law and Policy

Hong Kong resignations may end one country, two systems

November 11, 2020

Allen Carlson, associate professor of government and an expert in Chinese politics at Cornell University, says the developments in Hong Kong stand as a warning that China will be one of the first issues on Biden’s foreign policy agenda come January.

International

US-China summit: ‘It's so cold in Alaska’

March 17, 2021

Top officials from the U.S. and China will meet in Anchorage on Thursday and Friday for the first high level summit after President Biden took office. Cornell University experts, Allen Carlson and Robert Hockett, are available to discuss the political and economic implications of the summit.

International
Arts and Sciences
Law School

China, India violence could reignite border tensions

June 17, 2020

Allen Carlson, professor of government and director of Cornell University’s China and Asia Pacific Program, says the tentative peace between China and India brokered in the 1990s may have cracked this week, potentially ushering in a new and stormy chapter to the relationship between countries

Law and Policy
International

China’s law is ‘final nail in the coffin’ for Hong Kong

June 30, 2020

Allen Carlson, professor of government, says that the Chinese national security law serves as a final nail in the coffin of the ‘one country, two systems’ principle that has governed interaction between Hong Kong and China.

International
Law and Policy

China's national security law: For Xi, Hong Kong no different than Tibet, Xinjiang

May 21, 2020

On Thursday, China announced it was preparing to enact a controversial national security law for Hong Kong, bypassing the territory’s own legislative process. The announcement was made ahead of the country’s annual National People's Congress meeting, which is set to start on Friday. Allen Carlson, professor of government and an expert on Chinese politics, says the move is consistent with the Chinese government’s approach to areas it considers restive.

International
Arts and Sciences

As shadow of SARS haunts China, U.S. confirms first case of Coronavirus

January 22, 2020

Allen Carlson, associate professor of government at Cornell University and an expert on Chinese politics, says the shadow of SARS is haunting China as it wrestles to bring under control yet another infectious disease outbreak within its borders.

International
Arts and Sciences