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In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon’s national security advisor, Dr. Henry Kissinger, steered U.S. foreign policy through challenging times, reshaping the country’s policies on China, Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East. Working by his side throughout was Ambassador Winston Lord, then special assistant to the national security advisor and director of the State Department’s policy planning staff.

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The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is pleased to announce the election of Benjamin Harburg to its Board of Directors on May 21, 2019. We are honored to welcome Mr. Harburg, who, along with his fellow board members, will help guide the National Committee at this critical period in the relationship.

In his keynote speech at the U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium on May 30, 2019, Ambassador Thomas Pickering explains the shift toward multi-polarity in the current world order. Recorded 5/30/19.

In his keynote speech at the U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium on May 30, 2019, Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering explains the shift towards multi-polarity in the current world order and highlights seven key issues, from growth and development to weapons of mass destruction, confronting U.S. foreign policy.

In the decades following World War II, global geopolitics were dominated by two superpowers: the United States and the U.S.S.R. The Cold War era was defined by estrangement and the threat posed by a nuclear arms race between the two countries. Today, there is growing consensus that the United States is entering into a new kind of cold war with another communist superpower: China.

The Honorable Chas W. Freeman, Jr., delivers the 2008 Barnett-Oksenberg Lecture on Sino-American Relations in Shanghai. Recorded 02/21/08. View Transcript.