What It's Like To Live With A Foot In China, Another In The U.S.
China and the United States are locked in a trade fight, a technology race and competing world military strategies. Leaders of these countries seem to be pulling the world's two largest economies apart.
These tensions are especially felt by those living with a foot in each country. The NPR special series A Foot In Two Worlds reveals the stories of people affected because of their ties to both nations. Reports from both the U.S. and China show how deeply and broadly the two nations are connected and what's at stake as they reshape their relations.
In our travels, we stood in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou — on the riverbank where American traders first did business with China in the 1700s. We stood at Promontory Point, Utah, where Chinese laborers long ago helped complete the Transcontinental Railroad. And we visited a Maryland diner, meeting a Chinese immigrant who recently won elected office.
We found stories of people
