Why Thucydides’ Trap Misinforms Sino-American Relations

The Comparison of Sino-American Genius Education

In the 21st century, many countries in the world face the situation of talent contest. As a result, genius, especially supernormal talent is sure to become the commanding height of the contest for all countries in the world and determine the rise and fall as well as the ranking in the aspect of the development of China. Therefore, talent education is of strategic significance and worthy of furt...

Second Sino-American Conference on Nuclear Medicine.

N uclear medicine professionals from the United States and China met in New Orleans, LA, January 23–27, for the Second Sino-American Conference on Nuclear Medicine. The conference was held in conjunction with the 2013 SNMMI Mid-Winter Meeting and the annual meeting of the American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM). The previous conference was hosted by the Chinese Society of Nuclear Medicine (...

Why trap light?

In 1865 James Clerk Maxwell showed how light propagates as electromagnetic waves. In 1984 it was realized that light can also be trapped1. My journey into this subject began as a PhD student at Harvard University, focusing on the possibility to trap or localize any classical wave in a suitable material2. This was not one of the ‘big questions of science’ at the time, but my supervisor Michael J...

Irredentism, the Diaoyu Islands, and Sino-Japanese Relations

1 “ Sino - Japanese relations and Ballistic Missile Defence ”

Since December 1998, the Japanese government has formally committed itself to undertake cooperative technological research with the US into Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD). Japanese government policy-makers stress that the BMD project remains at present purely at the research stage, and that separate government decisions will be necessary before any progression towards the stages of development...