China

The Chinese-American relationship is the most important in the world today. My intense interest in China started during junior high school when read the Chinese classics Sun Zi The Art of War and Lao Zi The Dao as well as Mao Zedong on guerrilla warfare. I studied Chinese politics and foreign policy under Dr. David Lampton, then at OSU. I taught English in China during spring semester 1981 as one of the first foreign teachers there after the Cultural Revolution. My students at Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeastern University) included both professors and English majors. Subsequently I studied the Chinese language. During my PhD studies at University of Chicago, I learned more, including in-depth research in archival materials related to my dissertation on “Business Conflict and the Origin of the Pacific War,” becoming expert on Chinese-foreign business relations, including financial politics. Since the mid-1990s I have published numerous articles on the Chinese military and particularly the Taiwan-China military balance. I have made two officials visits to Taiwan, including discussions with government ministers and congressional leaders, and numerous trips to China, including living there seven years as founding dean and later management professor of the joint-venture (with NYIT) international college of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. During more than two decades as a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institution in New York I have arranged numerous programs on China and met with many Chinese delegations. I have been on numerous TV and radio programs as a China expert, including several Chinese networks. During recent years I have been teaching U.S.-China relations to international relations graduate students at NYU. Recently I am especially interested in the future of the Chinese political economy and the prospects of a U.S.-China trade war.