For the past five years, the Foreign Policy Colloquium has provided Chinese graduate students from all academic disciplines with an opportunity to learn about the making and implementation of U.S. foreign policy, to meet high-level policy leaders, and to interact with fellow graduate students.

"CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections" uses webcasts and on-site speakers to give Americans in dozens of cities the opportunity to hear directly from policy-makers and specialists.

Committee takes 10 staff members from the House and Senate to Beijing, Yunnan, and Shanghai for discussions on energy security and efforts to combat terrorism and narcotics trafficking.

Comprised of 20 young American China scholars, the Public Intellectuals Program expands and deepens the scholars' knowledge of aspects of China beyond their own specialties and encourages their active engagement as public intellectuals both within and beyond their professional and geographic communities.

Participants bond over a nine-day training program in San Diego focusing on conflict management and resolution. Formal training is balanced with informal group bonding activities that established sense of camaraderie, trust, and friendship among all three groups.

Orientation program exposes up-and-coming government officials to American history, politics, and contemporary society through a two-week study tour of the eastern United States

Twelve months before the Beijing Olympics, U.S.-China Working Group co-chairs Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) meet with high-level officials in Beijing, Xinjiang province, and Shanghai to discuss trade, product safety, border safety, counter-terrorism, and the Olympics themselves.