Beijing is likely to seek short-term stability as it anticipates a long-term advantage, writes Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government, in a Washington Post op-ed. Chen Weiss gives four areas to watch on what a new U.S. administration will mean for U.S.-China relations.
“As the Biden administration takes office, many observers are wondering about the escalation in U.S.-China tensions in recent months,” Chen Weiss and co-author Kacie Miura write in the piece. “The rocky transition of power, as many U.S. commentators note, has left the United States in an especially vulnerable position.”
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In "Child of Light," an experimental historical fiction set in 1890s Utica, Jesi Bender-Buell '07 tells the story of a young girl as she tries to understand her world through the interests of her parents: Spiritualism for Mama, electrical engineering for Papa.
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Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.
