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China and the Next Administration

Insights for Managing a Critical Relationship

A National Leaders Forum surveying the dimensions of the US-China relationship and the challenges and opportunities that await the new administration, featuring

  • Samuel R. Berger, former National Security Advisor
  • Thomas J. Christensen, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
  • Maurice R. Greenberg, CEO of C.V. Starr and Company
  • Carla A. Hills, former U.S. Trade Representative
  • James R. Lilley, former Ambassador to China, 1989-1991
  • Joseph W. Prueher, former Ambassador to China, 1999-2001
  • Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, former Ambassador to China, 1991-1995
  • Ambassador James R. Sasser, former Ambassador to China, 1996-1999
  • R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence

Sponsored by CNA China Studies, in partnership with The Washington Post’s Outlook section

Upcoming Events

To be announced

Event Archives

China Challenges Series

  • October 17, 2007
    Sino-US Relations: The View from Congress
    Speakers: Congressmen Mark Kirk and Rick Larsen
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  • October 2, 2007
    Social Change, Popular Opinion, and the Beijing Olympics
    Speaker: Ms. Li Xiaoping, Senior Producer, China Central Television
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  • June 19, 2007
    China's Environmental Challenges and the Road Ahead
    Speaker: Elizabeth Economy
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  • May 18, 2007
    Bloggers and Censors: Chinese Media in the Internet Age
    Rebecca MacKinnon
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  • March 27, 2007
    China in the Times to Come
    Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS Ret.)
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Past Conferences

  • China and the Next Administration — Insights for Managing a Critical Relationship December 5, 2008
    A National Leaders Forum surveying the dimensions of the US-China relationship and the challenges and opportunities that await the new administration. Sponsored by CNA China Studies, in partnership with The Washington Post’s Outlook section
  • U.S.-China Economic Relations — Issues and Prospects. Shanghai, June 2008.
  • China's Space Program: Civilian, Commercial, & Military Aspects. Dean Cheng, Conference Director, 2006
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  • Asia and the Science and Politics of Pandemics. Malia Du Mont, Conference Director, 2006
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  • China's Space Program: Civilian, Commercial, and Military Assets (October 2005)
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  • Assessing China's 2004 Defense White Paper: A Workshop Report (January 2005)
  • "The Domestic Factors in Shaping China's Foreign Policy: A Framework of Analysis," with Dr. Shi Yinhong (October 2004)
  • "Moving the Enemy: The Operational Art in the PLA's Huai Hai Campaign," with Dr. Gary Bjorge (October 2004)
  • China's New Media Milieu: Commercialization, Continuity, and Reform (June 2004)
  • Swimming In A New Sea: Civil-Military Issues In Today's China (March 2004)
  • China's Leadership Transition: Prospects and Implications (December 2001)
  • Strategic Rivalries on the Bay of Bengal: The Burma/Myanmar Nexus (February 2001)
  • The Operational Legacies of PLA Warfighting: 1949 to 1999 (June 1999)