A Close-Up Look at New Trends
In the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the world, delegations from the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) had visited counterparts across the Pacific in the U.S. at least twice a year. However, the unabated spread of the virus has to a large extent hindered exchanges between the two countries.
This year’s unusual journey marks the first time in more than two years that CCG has made an international visit. This one-month track II diplomatic tour, a tour of nongovernmental and people-to-people diplomacy, started in Singapore, followed by New York and Washington, D.C. in the U.S., then Paris, Berlin and Brussels in Europe, and finally Seoul in the Republic of Korea, with the goal of communicating face to face with leaders and experts from local think tanks, academia and business circles.
To our knowledge, this is the first Chinese think tank delegation to visit the U.S. since COVID-19 broke out, which is a positive signal that people-to-people exchanges are returning.
The ecosystem
Human and cultural exchanges between China and the U.S. have been stagnant or at times even nonexistent for more than two years. Grievances and misunderstandings have increased despite virtual
