NCUSCR Events

Former World Bank chief economist Justin Yifu Lin, professor and honorary dean, National School of Development, Peking University, discusses China’s economy in 2016 and beyond, with a focus on free trade zone developments and reform and opening up initiatives in China. The program, moderated by National Committee on U.S.-China Relations President Stephen Orlins, includes Q&A. Program date: January 7, 2016 in New York City. 

For information, presentation slides and video of the 2016 Forecast for China’s Economy, featuring some of China’s most influential economists and a panel moderated by CNBC’s Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, visit https://www.ncuscr.org/content/forecast-chinas-economy-2016

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Following Taiwan’s January 16, 2016 presidential elections, two of America’s leading experts on Taiwan, Douglas Paal, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of East Asian politics, chair of Chinese studies and assistant dean for educational policy at Davidson College, joined a teleconference with National Committee on U.S.-China Relations President Stephen Orlins to reflect on the outcome of the election, its significance for cross-Strait relations, and likely impact on U.S. relations with both Taiwan and the mainland.

Douglas Paal

Douglas H. Paal is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase International (2006–2008) and was an unofficial U.S. representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan (2002–2006). He was on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush between 1986 and 1993 as director of Asian Affairs and then as senior director and special assistant to the president.

Dr. Paal held positions in the policy planning staff at the State Department, as a senior analyst for the CIA, and at the U.S. embassies in Singapore and Beijing. He has spoken and published frequently on Asian affairs and national security issues.

Dr. Paal is a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Shelley Rigger

Shelley Rigger is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics, chair of Chinese Studies and assistant dean for educational policy at Davidson College. She has a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University and a B.A. in public and international affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in Taiwan (2005) and a visiting professor at Fudan University (2006) and Shanghai Jiaotong University (2013). She is a non-resident fellow of the China Policy Institute at Nottingham University and a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI).

Dr. Rigger is the author of two books on Taiwan’s domestic politics, Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy (Routledge 1999) and From Opposition to Power: Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2001). In 2011 she published Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse, a book for general readers. She has published articles on Taiwan’s domestic politics, the national identity issue in Taiwan-China relations and related topics. Her monograph, Taiwan’s Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics and ‘Taiwan Nationalism,’ was published by the East West Center in Washington in November 2006. Currently she is working on a study of Taiwan’s contributions to the PRC’s economic take-off.

Dr. Rigger is a former director and current member of the National Committee. 

The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading nonprofit nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States among citizens of both countries.

Hong Kong Secretary of Justice, Rimsky Yuen discussed the state of Hong Kong-Mainland China relations and the future of the “One Country, Two Systems.”  The discussion, moderated by Jerome Cohen, professor and co-director at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law, took place at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York City on October 30, 2015.

The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading nonprofit nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States among citizens of both countries.

Former Newsweek Beijing bureau chief and Asia editor Dorinda Elliott of the Paulson Institute discusses U.S. engagement with China, including the context for the United States’ engagement policy, China’s perspective on the relationship and potentials for future challenges and cooperation between the two countries. Ms. Elliott also discusses the mission and initiatives of the Paulson Institute in China. This program, conducted at Greenwich Library in Greenwich, Connecticut, was part of the 2015 nationwide CHINA Town Hall program, conducted at 75 locations across the country on October 5, 2015.

Dorinda Elliott is Editorial and communications director at The Paulson Institute.  The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading national, non-partisan public affairs organization devoted exclusively to building constructive and durable relationships between the United States and China.

The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading nonprofit nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States among citizens of both countries.

PRC President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the United States from September 22-25, 2015, has been closely watched on both sides of the Pacific. At the close of the bilateral summit, NCUSCR Public Intellectuals Program Fellow Sheena Chestnut Greitens, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri and NCUSCR Co-Chair, Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, managing director, Kissinger Associates, discussed the expectations, outcomes and key aspects of the Xi-Obama meetings, along with their implications for the U.S.-China relationship. 

Sheena Chestnut Greitens is an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri and a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for East Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. She is also an asociate in research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and a Public Intellectuals Program (PIP) fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy retired from the Foreign Service in January 2001 after a career spanning 45 years with the U.S. Department of State.  A fluent Chinese speaker, Ambassador Roy spent much of his career in East Asia, where his assignments included Bangkok (twice), Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing (twice), Singapore, and Jakarta.  He also specialized in Soviet affairs and served in Moscow at the height of the Cold War.  Ambassador Roy served as ambassador three times: in Singapore (1984-86), the People’s Republic of China (1991-95), and Indonesia (1996-99).  In 1996, he was promoted to the rank of career ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service. Ambassador Roy’s final post with the State Department was as assistant secretary for Intelligence and Research.
 
In January 2001, Ambassador Roy joined Kissinger Associates, Inc., a strategic consulting firm, as managing director.  For several years he was director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; he now serves as its distinguished scholar and founding director, emeritus.

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Although a Sino-U.S. conflict is far from inevitable, some assessments see tensions building in the Asia-Pacific region. Despite worrying signs of intensifying rivalry between Washington and Beijing, few observers have offered paths away from disaster. In Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry, author Lyle J. Goldstein focuses on American and Chinese perceptions of where their interests clash and proposes ways to ease bilateral tensions through compromise. Each chapter contains a "cooperation spiral"—the opposite of an escalation spiral—to illustrate his policy proposals. Dr. Goldstein makes numerous policy proposals over the course of the book, hoping to stimulate a genuine debate about cooperative policy solutions to the most challenging problems in U.S.-China relations.

Dr. Goldstein discussed his book at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York on June 25, 2015. The conversation and Q&A are moderated by NCUSCR President Stephen Orlins.  For more information on the program: https://www.ncuscr.org/content/meeting-china-halfway-how-defuse-emerging-us-china-rivalry

Lyle J. Goldstein is an associate professor in the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), which was established at U.S. Naval War College in October 2006 to improve mutual understanding and maritime cooperation with China.  He served as the founding director of CMSI from 2006 to 2011.  For this service, he was awarded the Superior Civilian Service Medal in 2012. 

The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading nonprofit nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States among citizens of both countries.

In anticipation of the 2015 Strategic & Economic Dialogue, NCUSCR brings together three leading experts from the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center to discuss the dialogue and its implications for the U.S.-China relationship. Remarks by economist David Dollar and National Committee Directors Cheng Li and Kenneth Lieberthal (introduced by National Committee President Stephen Orlins) explore policy implications of the S&ED, Chinese leadership dynamics that will influence the talks and the role of the U.S.-China economic relationship.

David Dollar is a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development programs at the Brookings Institution John L. Thornton China Center.

Cheng Li is director and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center.

Kenneth Lieberthal is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution.

 The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading nonprofit nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States among citizens of both countries.

After a slow start, China has emerged as one the fastest growing sources of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States. To date, debates about potential national security risks from these investments have dominated headlines. However, there has been no comprehensive assessment of the impact of growing Chinese FDI on U.S. communities – until now. "New Neighbors," a report by the National Committee and Rhodium Group, is the first in-depth study to examine and quantify the effects of Chinese capital inflows at the local level, estimating investment, operations, and jobs provision in individual U.S. congressional districts and assessing their relevance for American innovation, exports, and other economic linkages.

On May 20, 2015, the report’s authors joined NCUSCR President Stephen A. Orlins for a discussion of "New Neighbors," including how its chief findings fit into the broader dynamics of U.S.-China relations. 

Speakers: 

Stephen A. Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Daniel H. Rosen, Founding Partner, Rhodium Group

Thilo Hanemann, Director of Research, Rhodium Group

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No country feels China's rise more deeply than Japan. Through intricate case studies of visits by politicians to the Yasukuni Shrine, conflicts at the East China Sea boundary, concerns about food safety, and strategies of island defense, In a discussion with National Committee President Stephen Orlins, Sheila Smith explores the policy issues testing the Japanese government as it navigates its relationship with China. She finds that Japan's interactions with China extend far beyond negotiations between diplomats to include an array of social actors intent on influencing the Sino-Japanese relationship. At a National Committee event on May 11, 2015 in New York City, Sheila Smith discussed her book Intimate Rivals and the implications of the Sino-Japanese relationship on U.S.-China relations.

Dr. Smith is a regular contributor to the CFR blog Asia Unbound, and frequent contributor to major media outlets in the United States and Asia. She joined CFR from the East-West Center in 2007, where she directed a multinational research team in a cross-national study of the domestic politics of the U.S. military presence in Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines.

The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading nonprofit nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States among citizens of both countries.

Author Michael Meyer discusses his new book, In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China at a National Committee public program on April 2, 2015.  For three years, Mr. Meyer, a National Committee Public Intellectuals Program fellow, lived in a rice-farming community in Jilin Province, documenting the tremendous changes that were occurring. In Manchuria is a combination of memoir, reportage, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of China's northeast.

 As the author of the acclaimed The Last Days of Old Beijing (2008), Mr. Meyer received a Whiting Writers’ Award for nonfiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He also won a Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers. Mr. Meyer’s stories have appeared in the New York Times, Time, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Slate, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and on This American Life.

He recently taught literary journalism at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Center, and is now an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh where he teaches nonfiction writing.  He divides his time between Pittsburgh and Singapore.

The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading nonprofit nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States among citizens of both countries.