Defense Secretaries Harold Brown, William Cohen, Chuck Hagel, and William J. Perry, in conversation with National Committee President Stephen A. Orlins, reflect on their experiences at DoD and the future of the U.S.-China security relationship.
A discussion on the current status of Hong Kong-Mainland relations, as well as the overall implementation of the 'One Country, Two Systems' policy with Hong Kong Secretary of Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung.
Thomas Christensen offers his assesment on the U.S.-China relationship, and how internal Chinese politics will continue to shape Chinese foreign policy objectives.
Lyle Goldstein focuses on American and Chinese perceptions of where their interests clash and proposes ways to ease bilateral tensions through compromise.
Jerome Cohen and Ezra Vogel reflect on normalization and how academic study of China has changed over the course of their careers.
Prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa Howard French discusses his latest book, an accounting of China in Africa.
When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they inherited a war-ravaged and internationally isolated country. Pol Pot’s government espoused the rhetoric of self-reliance, but Democratic Kampuchea was utterly dependent on Chinese foreign aid and technical assistance to survive. Yet in a markedly asymmetrical relationship between a modernizing, nuclear power and a […]
A year has passed since China installed a new president, Xi Jinping; he has moved forcefully in several areas but many challenges remain. How will the country move forward as its double-digit rate of economic growth slows? How does it plan to deal with international calls for political reform and cope with an aging and increasingly polarized population? How do China's leaders see the nation's future, including its strategic role in the region and beyond?
Since the end of the Cold War, China and Japan have faced each other as powers of relatively equal strength for the first time in their long history. As the two great powers of East Asia, the way they both compete and cooperate with each other, and the way they conduct their relations in the new era, will play a big part in the evolution of the region as a whole.
The National Committee welcomed Ambassador Jin Yongjian, head of the China Society for People’s Friendship Studies, for a roundtable discussion on topics ranging from educational exchanges to the upcoming midterm elections in the United States.