Center on U.S.-China Relations

Describing his first trip to China, the author evokes a time when it represented not just the unknown but "the unknowable."

Forging an open and collaborative relationship between the U.S. and China is essential to global peace, security, balanced economic growth and environmental sustainability.

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

The future Ambassador to China made his remarks at the launch of an Asia Society-Woodrow Wilson Center report on Chinese foreign direct investment.

Much has been written about China's so-called Jasmine Revolution

This report looks in-depth at how in the coming decade Chinese capital, in excess of $1 trillion, will be seeking direct investment opportunities abroad. The Center delivers its recommendations on ways in which the U.S. can benefit.

The Chinese are currently developing economic and political theories directly from their authoritarian society, rather than trying to model them after the West, says Orville Schell in conversation with the Institute for New Economic Thinkin

In advance of his Metropolitan Opera debut, Peter Sellars speaks with Orville Schell about the past, present and future of US-China relations as well as the role of culture in this constantly evolving relationship.