National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Following Taiwan';s January 16, 2016 presidential elections, two of America's leading experts on Taiwan, Douglas Paal, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of East Asian politics, chair of Chinese studies and assistant dean for educational policy at Davidson College, joined a teleconference with National Committee on U.S.-...

Author and New Yorker writer Evan Osnos introduces his newest book Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China in a conversation with National Committee on U.S.-China Relations President Stephen Orlins on June 3, 2014 in New York. From abroad, we often encounter conflicting characterizations of China: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destin...

Former Newsweek Beijing bureau chief and Asia editor Dorinda Elliott of the Paulson Institute discusses U.S. engagement with China, including the context for the United States' engagement policy, China's perspective on the relationship and potentials for future challenges and cooperation between the two countries. Ms. Elliott also discusses the mission and initiatives of the Paulson Institute in C...

National Committee President Stephen Orlins discusses public service at an event of the China Entrepreneurs Forum before an audience of 1,200 at Harvard University, April 18, 2014. Stephen Orlins bio: http://www.ncuscr.org/stephen-orlins-president The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading nonprofit nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United S...

On November 30, 2011, Harvard University professor emeritus Dr. Ezra F. Vogel discussed his landmark biography, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, at the New York office of Covington & Burling. The event was hosted by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and was moderated by National Committee President Stephen Orlins.

On April 2, Dr. Stephen R. Platt, a 2008-2010 fellow in the National Committee's Public Intellectuals Program, discussed his latest book,Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War, at the Luce Foundation office in New York. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom is a military history of the nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil war...

5 Former U.S. Ambassadors to China by National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Dr. David M. Lampton delivered the 10th annual Barnett-Oksenberg Lecture on Sino-American Relations in Shanghai on November 23, 2016. This annual forum affords the opportunity for a frank and forthright discussion of current and potential issues between the two countries and is the only ongoing lecture series on U.S.-China relations that takes place in Mainland China. A transcript of Dr. Lampton's...

Christine Loh, Hong Kong undersecretary for the environment and former CEO of the public policy think tank Civic Exchange, discusses environmental developments in Hong Kong, offers a perspective on regulatory interactions with China's neighboring Guangdong Province and outlines issues and opportunities for ensuring regional environmental balance for Hong Kong's seven million residents. This was a...

Born to American missionaries in northern India, John Birch went to China in 1940 as an Independent Baptist missionary. Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Birch volunteered for the U.S. Army to fight the Japanese in China and was recruited by Claire Chennault, leader of the Flying Tigers and the U.S. 14th Air Force, as a field intelligence officer. John Birch is better known today for what...

Despite its implementation at a time of global concern about over-population, China's one-child policy developed into one of the most controversial social policies of the twentieth century. Between 1970 and 1976, the Chinese government successfully led the Long, Late, and Few campaign which aimed to curtail population growth at a time of limited resources. However, by the end of the decade, after...

Dr. Edward Steinfeld discusses the ground-breaking conclusions of his new book Playing Our Game: Why China Isn't a Threat to the West. He examines the de-verticalization of technology development and manufacturing that is leading to a new industrial revolution. Dr. Steinfeld outlines how, rather than viewing China simply as a competitive threat to the United States, a deeper perspective reveals co...

Professor and author Deborah Brautigam discusses her new book "The Dragons Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa" on February 9, 2010 in New York. The book examines Chinese aid and state-sponsored economic engagement in Africa, and Chinas distinct attitudes towards foreign aid, which result in aid implementation that often differs from western models. China's aid in Africa is based on mutual ben...

On April 10, 2012, Chinese authorities announced that Politburo member Bo Xilai had been removed from both the Politburo and the Central Committee and that his wife Gu Kailai was implicated in the murder of a British national in Chongqing last fall. Three days later Dr. Cheng Li, America's leading scholar of elite politics in China and director of research and senior fellow at the Brookings Instit...

What does the modern Chinese consumer want, and how are those desires changing? Advertising guru and frequent television news commentator Tom Doctoroff, North Asia Area Director and Greater China CEO at JWT, discussed these issues and his new book, What Chinese Want: Culture, Communism and China's Modern Consumer at a National Committee public program on June 1, 2012 at Dorsey Whitney New York. Th...

Bo XiLai Conference Call by National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Former World Bank SVP and chief economist Justin Yifu Lin discusses China's mid- and long-term growth prospects at China's Economy 2015, a program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in cooperation with Peking University's China Center for Economic Research, held at the New York Stock Exchange, January 7, 2015. For program videos and presentations, visit: https://www.ncuscr.org/conte...

Former World Bank chief economist Justin Yifu Lin, professor and honorary dean, National School of Development, Peking University, discusses China's economy in 2016 and beyond, with a focus on free trade zone developments and reform and opening up initiatives in China. The program, moderated by National Committee on U.S.-China Relations President Stephen Orlins, includes Q&A. Program date: January...

Dr. Ashley Esarey, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, and Dr. Yang Guobin, associate professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University, speak about the internet and Chinese society and the Green Dam software controversy on June 11, 2009 in New York. Each discuss ongoing changes in internet restrictions and the predicted ramific...

Given its experience of colonialism, Africans have long been suspicious of Chinese intentions on the continent. Recent allegations of unprecedented Chinese state-sponsored acquisitions of African farmland have alarmed many who now fear that Africa, with its large tracts of untouched arable land, will enter a new colonial era. In her book, Will Africa Feed China?, leading expert and National Commit...