Over the past five years, the number of Chinese undergraduates attending Washington University has more than quintupled, according to statistics from the Office for International Students and Scholars (OISS). For the class of 2015, the OISS reported that 182 undergraduate students from China accepted admission to the University, up from 29 half a decade ago.

A distant nation with a growing population, booming economy, and hardworking labor force is threatening to remove the United States from atop its economic throne. The hysteria and fear aimed at China comes from American policymakers unwilling to accept due criticism of their own decisions.

This past weekend’s Lopata Classic basketball tournament featured one school that had never played a game in the United States before: Tsinghua University.

This year’s 27th Annual Lopata Classic featured the classic match-up of the 21st century—U.S.A. versus China. The Washington University men’s basketball team (3-3) defeated Tsinghua University, from Beijing, China, 80-70 on Friday, Dec. 3, and then defeated Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges 66-57 on Saturday, Dec. 4.

With the opening of the Chinese market, more and more Western fast food consumption flooded into China. KFC, McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut and Papa John’s have occupied their respective shares in the Chinese market. They brought Chinese people with Western food such as hamburgers, sandwiches, pizzas, pastas, salads, fried chicken and fried potatoes.

Eleven Washington University students and eleven Fudan University students will participate at the U.S. – China Student International Conference on Climate Change & Sustainability in November. Washington University Students for International Collaboration on the Environment (WUSICE) is the organizer of the Conference. The students will interact with each other throughout the six-day event, participating in lectures, discussion panels with experts and social events.

The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 was extremely significant for the early foreign policy of the United States, and it helped to create a special relationship between the United States and Latin America. Chiefly aimed at European colonial powers, this document boldly declared that colonization of newly independent states in Latin America would not be permitted. [...]

The Obama administration’s recent statements about China might hinder Obama’s desire to improve the United States’ relations with all nations of the world. While some Chinese students at Washington University are not attuned to the discourse between China and the United States, others understand the controversy but are optimistic about the future.

As the international community braces for the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol—the guiding legal treaty on global greenhouse gas emissions—a group of scholars will meet at Washington University to explore how the United States will assume a role in the future of environmental protection.