Chinese Students Are Flooding U.S. Christian High Schools

Data Shows Their Atheist Parents Don’t Seem to Mind

on February 11, 2016

It is no secret that Chinese students are pouring into the United States; over 300,000 of them attended U.S. colleges and universities in 2015 alone, and Chinese are filling up spots in U.S. secondary schools in search of a better education and an easier route into U.S. universities. Less widely known is that at the secondary level, most Chinese attend Christian schools—even though they come from the world’s largest atheist state.

When Hong Kong’s Domestic Helpers Need Help

By Xyza Cruz Bacani on February 11, 2016

It was at a small, off the record press dinner with a Hong Kong government officer not too long ago at the Summer Palace restaurant in the Shangri-la Hotel. The topic of the day, inevitably, came up for discussion: the minimum wage for domestic helpers had just been raised, to reach the monthly allowance of 4210 Hong Kong dollars, or U.S.$540, a month. “Not a lot, for such an expensive place as this!” someone said. “You must take into account that they have no expenses.

Carla Freeman

on February 10, 2016

Carla Freeman directs the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she is also an Associate Research Professor in the China program. Her broad research agenda is aimed at better understanding the linkages between Chinese international and domestic policy. Before coming to SAIS, she served as the program officer for civil society and community development with an emphasis on sustainability at The Johnson Foundation. She has also worked as a political risk consultant with an Asia-wide portfolio, taught in a number of universities and colleges, and was a Peace Scholar with the United States Institute of Peace. More recently, she has been a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Fairbank Center. She completed her B.A. in Southeast Asia and History at Yale University with honors, a certificate in Chinese language studies in Beijing Foreign Languages University, and a certificate in political science from Sciences Po in Paris. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Sun Zhe

on February 10, 2016

Sun Zhe is currently an adjunct senior research scholar and co-director of the China Initiative at School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University. He was the Director of the Center for U.S.-China Relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing and has previously taught at Fudan University and Ramapo College of New Jersey. He is a graduate of Fudan University and has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

Sun Zhe is the author and editor of more than 20 books on comparative politics and U.S.-China relations, including New Thinking on Human Rights (1992), The Politics of Dictatorship (1995), Influencing the Future: the Institutional Transformation and the Decision Making Process of the U.S. Congress (2001), The Studies of U.S. Congress Series (2002, 2003), U.S. Congress and China: Cases and Analyses (2003), Rise and Expansion: American Domestic Politics and U.S.-China Relations (2004), The Remaking of the National People’s Congress in China, 1979-2000 (2004), American Studies in China: 1979-2006 (2007), and Tsinghua Review of US-China Relations (2009-2015).

Sun Zhe serves as a senior consultant to the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, a senior policy adviser to the Office of Taiwan Affairs of the State Council, a board member of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, and the U.S.-China Peoples’ Friendship Association, and an independent director of CitiGroup (China) and MGM (China).