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< U.S.-China Mutual Trust Committee Recent Projects To Build Mutual Trust UMN Opera Theatre Premieres Chamber Version of Dream of the Red Chamber 2024 In 2011 the MN-based Chinese Heritage Foundation (CHF) initiated a pie-in-the-sky project, to commission a new opera based on Dream of the Red Chamber. The goal was to fulfill its mission […]

U.S.-China Mutual Trust Committee Recent Project to Build Mutual Trust UMN OLLI Course by Rob Scarlett 2024 In January 2024 Rob Scarlett co-presented a course at UMN OLLI Program on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. The following PDF includes slides that were used to make key points in his lecture. The speaker’s notes are not included, so

U.S.-China Mutual Trust Committee Our Vision Given the daunting complexities of U.S.-China relations, what would be the crucial component necessary to bring about progress? We posit that the crucial necessary component is a mutual trust in each other.   How do we, all private citizens, help build mutual trust between our two countries?  We suggest

U.S.-China Mutual Trust Committee Summary of Findings From a review of the historical and cultural context of both U.S. and China’s perspectives on the world (as explored more fully in the Appendix), we can summarize the following observations: Differences in Historical Practices — For at least two thousand years, China has been engaged in trade with

U.S.-China Mutual Trust Committee Potential Collaborating Partners Focusing on our geographic base in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, we are developing a list of potential partners to collaborate with us on presenting these webinars / town hall forums / panel discussions. There are many organizations in the Midwest which are already doing wonderful

U.S.-China Mutual Trust Committee Introduction The U.S.-China Mutual Trust Committee 互信組 set out to uncover some of the possible root causes of the dauntingly complex relationship between the United States and China. We have found:  These historical differences between the two countries make peaceful US-China collaboration challenging, and the lack of mutual trust in each other’s words

U.S.-China Mutual Trust Committee Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Colonialism in Europe and the U.S.  “The Doctrines of Christian Discovery (DoCD) originate with 15th century Papal Bulls that were issued by the Vatican and implemented by Monarchies, sanctioning the brutal conquest and colonization of non-Christians who were deemed “enemies of Christ” in Africa and the

U.S.-China Mutual Trust Committee Chinese in the U.S. The first recorded Chinese woman to arrive in the U.S. was Afong Moy. She was on board the Washington, a ship filled with Chinese goods for the American middle class, when it pulled into the New York Harbor in November 1834. https://us-china-mtc.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=924&action=edit&swcfpc=1 The Gold Rush and the

U.S.-China Mutual Trust Committee China in the 21st Century Since the Opium Wars the Qing Dynasty continued in its decline and was finally overthrown by Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s revolutionary forces in 1911. The subsequently established Republic of China was soon consumed in a chaotic civil war, though the Japanese invasion in 1937 did force

U.S.-China Mutual Trust Committee The U.S. in the 21st Century Since 2017, U.S.–China relations have been going steadily downhill.  In his book, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, John Pomfret, a journalist with extensive experience in China, traces the relationship between U.S. and China from 1776 to the book’s publication in 2016 as a series