China
President Carter's decision to normalize the relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China in 1979 changed China, the United States, and the world. The Carter Center is dedicated to preserving this legacy and advancing U.S.-China relations by building synergy between China and the United States, fostering greater cooperation between them and other nations, and helping to shape the critical U.S.-China bilateral relationship through workshops, websites, and scholarly publications.
The Carter Center is initiating pilot programs to highlight the benefits of coordinated and collective action between the United States and China in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This includes developing a platform to monitor and report on regional crises that could result in internal chaos and damage the crucial U.S.-China relationship. The Center encourages multilateral dialogue to help resolve local conflicts, provide advice and assistance to local economic development and political reform efforts, and produce confidence-building measures for the U.S.-China relationship.
The Center produces original scholarship that provides action-oriented insights for advancing U.S.-China collaboration on global issues. Central to this, the focus convenes an annual Carter Center Forum on U.S.-China Relations and organizes workshops on subjects crucial to both countries in collaboration with partners in China and other countries. Conference proceedings and workshop papers are published online or in print.
In 2000, the Carter Center helped launch a website on villager self-government in China that quickly became one of the most comprehensive websites on grassroots democracy in China. Today, the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs maintains a website. Two years later, the Center launched http://www.chinaelections.org/, which became the most visited political reform portal inside and outside China.
In 2008, the Carter Center launched http://www.chinatransparency.org/. Since 2013, the Center has followed a select community of 100 influential Weibo bloggers at www.weibochina.org, where policymakers, scholars, and ordinary people can observe a China different from official media reports. Also in 2013, the focus launched the website http://www.uscnpm.org/ to provide updates on a wide range of topics related to U.S.-China relations, including foreign policy, economy and trade, and social media.
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Carter Center websites in China have become popular platforms for gathering information and exchanging views on political reform.
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