CHINA Town Hall speaker Kurt M. Campbell
China's rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the United States. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections, is a national day of programming designed to provide Americans across the United States and beyond the opportunity to discuss these issues with leading experts. The third annual CHINA Town Hall was held at 8:00 p.m EST on December 8, 2009.
The National Committee is pleased to present this program, which featured a nationwide webcast by Kurt Campbell (bio), Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, followed by local presentations from on-site China specialists addressing topics of particular interest to the community. Each program is cosponsored by the National Committee and a local organization(s). CHINA Town Hall is generously underwritten by the Starr Foundation.
Prior to assuming his current position in June 2009, Kurt Campbell was the CEO and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and concurrently served as the director of the Aspen Strategy Group and chairman of the Editorial Board of the Washington Quarterly. Dr. Campbell has served in several capacities in government, including as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asia and the Pacific, a director on the National Security Council staff, deputy special counselor to the president for NAFTA in the White House, and White House fellow at the Department of the Treasury.
We thank Dr. Campbell and our local partners and speakers for helping to make this program a success.
 Click here to watch a webcast video of Dr. Campbell's interview with National Committee Vice President Jan Berris. (E-mail registration required). |
Click here for the 2009 CHINA Town Hall brochure.
Gala Dinner |
ITT Corporation and Google, Inc., honored at the 2009 National Committee Gala Dinner. |
Event Date: December 3, 2009; 6:30 p.m. reception, 7:30 p.m. dinner |
Click for Norman J. Ornstein's bio
Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He also serves as an election analyst for CBS News and writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call newspaper. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and other major publications, and regularly appears on television programs such as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose.
He serves as senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission, working to ensure that our institutions of government can be maintained in the event of a terrorist attack on Washington. His campaign finance working group of scholars and practitioners helped shape the major law, known as McCain/Feingold, that reformed the campaign financing system. He is also co-directing a multi-year effort, the Transition to Governing Project, to create a better climate for governing in the era of the permanent campaign.
Norm is a member of the board of directors of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Campaign Legal Center, and of the board of trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.
His many books include The Permanent Campaign and Its Future, Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy, The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track -- all co-authored with Thomas E. Mann; and Debt and Taxes: How America Got Into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About It, with John H. Makin.
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Stephen A. Orlins, president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations will be the moderator.
at a glance
- Established 2007; recently held Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. EST
- Goal: Facilitating the exchange of ideas through educational exchanges & public education
- Type: Public Outreach
- Category: Economics, Governance & Civil Society, Politics & Security, Transnational Issues
- Keywords: Dialogue, Forum, Local, National
- Program Funder(s): The Starr Foundation
- Program Partner(s): trade and business associations, universities, World Affairs Councils of America
- Administered by: Jonathan Lowet, Margot Landman, Nick McBurney, Sara Gavryck-Ji
39 venues in the U.S. and Greater China participated in the 2009 CHINA Town Hall
