For more than forty years, the National Committee on United States-China Relations has worked at the forefront of the dynamic and expanding Sino-American relationship, helping to shape American foreign policy toward China into one that is in the best long-term interest of this country. The Committee also educates Americans and Chinese about the realities of each other’s countries, promotes the principles of education, not advocacy, represents the diverse views and facets of American society, and reaches out to government officials, opinion makers and the general public.
While we take pride in our long history as the oldest American organization dedicated to productive U.S.-China relations, the National Committee has adopted fresh approaches to addressing critical and emerging issues shaping Sino-American relations in the 21st century.
I encourage you to explore our web site — you can browse by subject area or goal — where you will see that the National Committee is accomplishing a great deal, including:
- Taking American political leaders to China for a firsthand look at the dramatic changes taking place there.
- Investing in the next generation of American and Chinese leaders by creating meaningful opportunities for outstanding young professionals and students to interact with one another and with policy makers from both countries.
- Convening on one evening audiences in 35 U.S. cities for a discussion on China via the Web with a Washington insider and leading specialists in the field.
- Placing American students in Chinese homes and Chinese students in American homes.
- Taking delegations away from the major cities to places that are more reflective of typical life in China and the United States.
- Conducting teacher exchanges between the United States and China
- Bringing together American and Chinese specialists for direct discussion of economic issues, the environment, labor law and other sensitive topics.
Our programs are giving participants opportunities to share professional expertise and insights, debate, argue, laugh and, we hope, find some common ground in their very different sets of personal experience.
In addition, the web site highlights National Committee’s range of public events, provides access to our resources and publications, and allows for you to sign up for our electronic updates or make an online donation (click on “Subscribe” or “Donate” respectively, on the upper right corner of any page).
We invite you to engage with the National Committee, and contact us with questions or comments about our mission, programs or web site at feedback@ncuscr.org, so that we can continue to have a positive impact on the United States and its relationship with Greater China.
Stephen A. Orlins, President