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.

The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the American Jewish Committee are pleased to co-sponsor a talk by Professor Pan Guang on Sino-Middle Eastern relations, focusing on Chinese policies toward Israel and Iran. (New York Event)

In a November 10 program, Professor Cui Liru, president of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Research (CICIR), and his colleagues consider the foreign policy of the new U.S. administration, particularly regarding China, the Middle East, South Korea, and the DPRK.

Mr. Sun Chao speaks at a National Committee breakfast meeting on November 7.

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.

A cross-section of educators, hand- picked by the top students in the United States, learn more about China and U.S.-China relations at the annual Master Teacher China Seminar.

On June 18, 2008, the National Committee co-hosted a dinner in Washington, DC, in honor of Wang Qishan, Vice Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China.

At our 2008 Annual Members Program, three leading specialists – Nicholas Lardy, David Malpass and Henny Sender – examined the relationship among the U.S., Chinese and global economies and its implications for the broader Sino-American relationship. (New York Event)

AmCham-China leaders Michael Barbalas, John Watkins, and James Zimmerman give an American business perspective from China. (New York Event)

Admiral Timothy J. Keating, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, will discuss transformed U.S. alliances with Japan and the Republic of Korea; appropriate U.S. presence and forward basing; a maturing, constructive relationship with China; and how an expanding multilateral approach to crisis management will remain the command’s foundation for regional security. (New York Event)

Author David M. Lampton discusses his latest book, The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money and Minds. (New York Event)

Committee programs study tour for six editors from the United States to meet with the foreign policy community in Beijing, Shanghai, and Taipei.

"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.

The National Committee convenes a conference call program for its members to discuss the history and present situation in Tibet as well as the implications of recent events for U.S.-China relations and the Beijing Olympics.

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.

Held in memory of two giants in the China field, the annual Barnett-Oksenberg Lecture provides a forum in Shanghai to discuss Sino-American relations, arguably the most important bilateral relationship of this century.

In an off-the-record session, Chinese officials clarify for American China-watchers policies adopted at the 17th Party Congress.

In an assessment of the post-1997 landscape in Asia, NYU professor David Denoon discusses the factors that make China the new hub for economic dynamism in Asia, how the lessons of the Asian Financial Crisis continue to influence China’s economic policies and the implications of China’s increasing economic power for U.S. policymakers.

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.

Dr. Cheng Li, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, and Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy , vice chairman at Kissinger Associates, speak about the implications of the 17th Party Congress for China and U.S.-China relations.

In this off-the-record conference call with National Committee members, three specialists offer their analysis of how the current product safety issue has developed over the last several months.

In a conference call program for National Committee members, the Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force on U.S.-China Relations’s co-chairs, Carla Hills and Dennis Blair, discuss some of the group’s key findings.

In a Washington discussion, Susan Shirk highlights some of the key themes of her book, China: Fragile Superpower.

Bates Gill, Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies, traces the shift in China’s security diplomacy to several factors, among them its concern with American primacy in the post-Cold War world, its vision for its own peaceful rise and the emergence of “new thinkers” in China who have provided the theoretical underpinnings for a more pragmatic approach.

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.

Freshmen members of Congress and members of the bi-partisan U.S.-China Working Group sit down with two former Secretaries of State to discuss the history of Sino-American relations and current issues affecting the relationship.

While considering a run for the White House, former North Carolina Democratic Senator John Edwards traveled with the National Committee to China to engage in direct dialogue with officials, business executives and specialists in international relations, economic development and other fields.

Professors Robert A. Scalapino and Lucian Pye, two distinguished scholars in the U.S.-China relations field, discuss the founding of the National Committee, its work over the past 40 years and the role it might play in the future.

The dinner, on April 20, 2006, affords the president of the People’s Republic of China his only opportunity to offer a public address in Washington, DC.

The Asia Society, Korea Society and National Committee on U.S.-China Relations cosponsor an evening discussion with Christopher Hill, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, on the Six-Party Talks.

Committee-organized study tour program supplements the academic training Chinese scholars and students already receive while studying at U.S. institutions by giving greater exposure to America’s history, culture, and key institutions.

Two years before normalization of relations, program provides young American elected officials and others involved in local and state politics with an opportunity to meet with their counterparts and increase their understanding of China.

While a few staff members accompanied their Senators and Congressmen on Congressional trips to China in the early 70s, it was not until 1976 that the first group made up entirely of Senate and House committee staff members visited China.

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.

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.

Committee helps the Rockefeller Foundation look at how China’s emergence affects the foundation’s strategies and goals.

Committee conducts a survey of programs addressing Sino-American relations and security issues.

Committee's A. Doak Barnett Memorial Essay Contest challenges Chinese and American graduate students to reflect on essential aspects of the United States-China relationship.

Started in September 1984 as an off-the-record gathering of leading citizens of China and America, the U.S.-China Dialogue was the first formal instance of Track II diplomacy in the Sino-American relationship.