Office of Congressman Jim McGovern

on June 12, 2014

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Currently serving his tenth term in Congress, McGovern serves as the second ranking Democrat on the powerful House Rules Committee, which sets the terms for debate and amendments on most legislation; and a member of the House Agriculture Committee. In 2014, McGovern was named Democratic Ranking Member on the House Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Nutrition. The Subcommittee’s jurisdiction includes policies and statutes relating to nutrition, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and domestic commodity distribution and consumer initiatives.

Peter Gries

on June 12, 2014

Peter Gries was born in Singapore and grew up in Hong Kong, Japan, and Beijing, where he attended a Chinese public elementary school and learned to throw hand grenades in sports class. He later earned a B.A. at Middlebury College in Asian Studies, a M.A. in Asian Studies at the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Gries is currently the Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair & Director of the Institute for U.S.-China Issues and Professor of International & Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author, most recently, of The Politics of American Foreign Policy: How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs (Stanford University Press, 2014). He is also author of China’s New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy (University of California Press, 2005) and co-editor of State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimation (Routledge, 2004). He studies the political psychology of international affairs.

Terrorism: U.S. and China’s Common Enemy in Africa

A China in Africa Podcast

By Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more on June 12, 2014

While U.S. and Chinese interests often have divergent interests in Africa, they do share at least one common enemy: terrorism. Chinese nationals have been kidnapped and held for ransom in a number of African countries, including South Sudan, Egypt, and now Cameroon where Nigerian-militants believed to be members of Boko Haram are holding three Chinese hostages. Dr. Ross Anthony of the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa is our guest this week to discuss his recent research on how the U.S.

The Dead Swans of Dongting Lake

An Essay in Pictures

on June 12, 2014

I’ve lost track of how many nights I spent traveling to Dongting Lake, a large, shallow lake in Hunan province, central China, famed for being the origin of dragon-boat racing.

In mid-January 2013 I met the Yueyang River Porpoise Conservation Society, a volunteer group. At dawn we set out for Dongting Lake, hoping to protect the food chain which supports the endangered river porpoise, a Class II protected mammal, from illegal fishing.