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Ambassador Jeffrey Bader, John Whitehead Senior Fellow in International Diplomacy, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution, and former National Security Council senior director for East Asian affairs, delivered the keynote address at the 2013 Barnett-Oksenberg Lecture on Sino-American Relations to an audience in Shanghai.

In her new book, Civil Society in China: The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the “New Reform Era,” Catholic University Professor Karla Simon provides both an historical and contemporary analysis of the legal framework for civil society and citizen participation in China. Professor Simon discussed the historical development of China’s civil society and how social, economic and legal system reforms today will affect China’s civil society going forward.

When President Richard M. Nixon met with Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in February 1972, at his side was a young U.S. diplomat serving as his principal interpreter: Chas W. Freeman, Jr. had started studying Mandarin (and Taiwan’s dialect, Minnan) in Taiwan three years earlier; and he spent much of his long diplomatic career specializing in China, including Taiwan.

Former National Security Council Asia expert Ambassador Jeffrey Bader and former U.S. ambassador to China J. Stapleton Roy discuss the Sunnylands Summit and offer perspectives on where the U.S.-China relationship will go from here in a National Committee on U.S.-China Relations conference call on June 13, 2013, moderated by National Committee President Stephen Orlins.

China is undergoing the largest migration in human history: Since the mid-1980s, roughly 300 million people have moved from China's countryside into its cities; between now and 2025, its expected that another 300 million Chinese will make their ways in. Without appropriate urban planning, design, and construction focused on sustainable development, the consequences of this massive urbanization could be dire for China and the world.

Ambassador Freeman brings a broad and well-informed historical perspective to his analysis of the issues that have confronted the world’s two most powerful countries over the last four decades. Recorded 6/6/2013. 

Professor Karla Simon, co-director of the Center for International Social Development at Catholic University of America and an affiliated scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at New York University School of Law, discusses her most recent book, Civil Society in China: The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the “New Reform Era.”