Cheng Li

A women sitting on her couch is working from home due to the confinement due to the corona virus pandemy. Paris, France. April 10 2020.Une femme assise sur son canape fait du teletravail en raison du confinement pendant la pandemie de coronavirus. Paris, France. 10 avril 2020.NO USE FRANCE

Worsening global digital divide as the US and China continue zero-sum competitions

Monday, October 11, 2021

--FILE--Chinese customers try out Apple's iPhone 6 or 6 Plus smartphones at a store in Yichang city, central China's Hubei province, 9 July 2015.The number of Chinese mobile phone users accounted for 94.5% of its total population by the end of June, latest data showed. In the first half, China saw 6.88 million new mobile phone users, bringing the country's total mobile phone users to 1.29 billion, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said in a statement. The ratio of mobile phone users to population was higher than 100% in nine provincial-level regions, including Beijing, Shanghai, as well as provinces of Guangdong and Zhejiang. The number of users choosing broadband mobile internet services (3G and 4G services) reached 674 million by the end of June, accounting for 52.1% of all mobile phone users.No Use China. No Use France.

China’s “digital natives”: How the post-’90s generation is transforming the country

Monday, September 27, 2021

People visit a main shopping area in Shanghai, China July 12, 2021. Picture taken July 12, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song

The Shanghai middle class: Embracing “cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics”?

Friday, July 30, 2021

People walk along Nanjing Pedestrian Road, a main shopping area, during the Labour Day holiday, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Shanghai, China May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song

Two tales of a city: How middle-class Shanghai reveals China’s unsettled future

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine" sticker and a medical syringe in front of displayed China flag in this illustration taken, October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo

How coronavirus scientists offer a formula for better US-China relations

Cheng Li and Senqi Ma

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

--FILE--National flags of China and the United States are seen in Ji'nan city, east China's Shandong province, 14 June 2018.Even as Chinese and American trade negotiators laid plans to maintain "intensive consultation" this month, President Donald Trump said he will impose 10% tariffs Sept. 1 on an additional $300 billion a year of imports from China. Trump disclosed the expansion of tariffs Thursday in a tweet in which he also complained that China failed to increase agricultural purchases and to cut off the flow of the opioid drug fentanyl to the U.S. from China as he said President Xi Jinping promised. Trump said the new duties will be in addition to the tariffs of as much as 25% on $250 billion a year of Chinese imports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 200 points following the news, erasing a gain of 300 points earlier in the day. China didn't immediately respond to Trump's tweet, which he concluded by writing, "We look forward to continuing our positive dialogue with China."No Use China. No Use France.

10 reasons the US and China should cooperate now to stop the pandemic

Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

U.S. Army and China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) military personnel attend a closing ceremony of an exercise of "Disaster Management Exchange" near Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China.

America’s governors and mayors have a stake in US-China relations

Cheng Li and Xiuye Zhao

Thursday, January 14, 2021

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What leaders overseas will want to ask of the Biden administration

White House at Sunset. Source: Shutterstock.

A list of specific, actionable foreign policy ideas for the next president

Chancellors, guests and graduates attend the first graduation ceremony of NYU Shanghai, the first Sino-US joint research university, in Shanghai, China, 28 May 2017.On May 28th, the pioneering class of 2017 at NYU Shanghai earned their NYU bachelor¡¯s degrees as well as their NYU Shanghai diplomas. The 264 graduates, who hail from China, the United States and 31 other countries, led the way into the hall of Shanghai¡¯s Oriental Arts Center packed with professors, friends, siblings and proud parents who travelled from around the world to celebrate the very first graduation of the first Sino-US joint research university. Chancellor Yu Lizhong and Vice Chancellor Jeff Lehman offered the commencement remarks. Yu asked the graduates to carry forward NYU Shanghai¡¯s academic values of independent thinking, innovation and creativity as well as its spirit of openness and inclusiveness to the advance of human beings and our society. On a day of many firsts for NYU Shanghai, both Chancellors also awarded the university¡¯s newly minted Medal of Honor to two prominent figures, China¡¯s former ambassador to the United States, Zhou Wenzhong, and real estate developer, Wang Shi. Both made brief congratulatory remarks to the graduating students, their families and dignitaries in attendance.No Use China. No Use France.

The deception and detriment of US-China cultural and educational decoupling

Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen

Wednesday, October 14, 2020