Program focuses on security topics not conventionally discussed in military training: climate change, economic development, China’s use of soft power, scientific and technological development, and more.

The National Committee hosts an hour-long tele-conference for forty participants with National Committee members Rear Admiral Michael McDevitt, US Navy (ret), and Dr. David M. Finkelstein.

Professor Wang Jisi, dean, School of International Studies, Peking University, reprised one of the themes raised in his 2005 Foreign Affairs article, “China’s Search for Stability with America,” and focused on areas where Chinese and American interests converge and diverge in Asia.