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The meeting included business executives from NCUSCR member companies.
The off-the-record conversation was frank with both sides focusing on areas of agreement and disagreement, and proposing ways to break some of the logjams in the relationship.
NCUSCR President Stephen A. Orlins and Executive Vice Chair Evan Greenberg gave remarks, along with the other participants
Ambassador Barshefsky is best known globally as the architect and negotiator of China’s WTO agreement, which opened China’s economy as a worldwide market
Mr. Liu and his delegation stopped in New York on their way to San Francisco from the May 8-9 Washington, D.C. meeting of the bilateral Working Group on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s.
The briefing was part of an INDOPACOM initiative to provide its leadership with views from American experts outside the government on various domestic aspects of China, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese foreign policy.
President Orlins received the U.S.-China Friendship award presented by U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns.
Participants stressed the importance of engagement and dialogue between leaders of the two countries, discussed the importance of rebalancing China's economy, and underscored the value of shared regulatory norms and the role of China's private sector in improving consumer confidence and attracting foreign business and investment.
President Orlins praised the legacy of U.S. President Jimmy Carter and urged leaders in both country to build closer bilateral ties.