China's rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the United States. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections, is a national day of programming designed to provide Americans across the United States and beyond the opportunity to discuss these issues with leading experts. The fifth annual CHINA Town Hall will be held at 7:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 16, 2011.
The National Committee is pleased to present this program, which will feature a webcast by Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor, followed by local presentations from on-site China specialists addressing topics of particular interest to the community. Each program is cosponsored by the National Committee and a local organization(s). CHINA Town Hall is generously underwritten by the Starr Foundation.
From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to the president of the United States. In 1981, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom “for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States.”
Before his government service, Dr. Brzezinski was on the faculty of Harvard University (1953-60) and Columbia University (1960-69). He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from McGill and his doctorate from Harvard.
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2011 China Town Hall Venues
Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, CO)
David Gries, China Vitae
Center for China Studies, Clemson University (Clemson, SC)
Erin Ennis, U.S.-China Business Council; Yu Keping, Peking University, and Xiaobo Hu, Clemson University
Center for China Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Panel Discussion
Channel City Club (Santa Barbara, CA)
Amy Celico, Albright Stonebridge Group
The City of Baltimore-Office of the Mayor, with the Baltimore-Xiamen Sister City Committee (Baltimore, MD)
Robert Goldberg, The Scowcroft Group
Colby College (Waterville, ME)
Katherine Kaup, Furman University
Concordia College (Moorhead, MN)
Wenran Jiang, University of Alberta
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Guobin Yang, Barnard College
Crane House, the Asia Institute, with the University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)
Henry Levine, Albright Stonebridge Group
Cranford High School (Cranford, NJ)
Margaret Lewis, Seton Hall University Law School
Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations (Dallas, TX)
Banning Garrett, Asia Program, Atlantic Council
Dayton Council on World Affairs (Dayton, OH)
Margaret Karns, University of Dayton
Laura Luehrmann, Wright State University
Andrew Lai, Wright State University
East Asia Institute, University of Oklahoma - Schusterman Campus (Tulsa, OK)
Robert Day, University of Maryland
Fordham Law School (New York, NY)
Rebecca MacKinnon, New America Foundation
George Mason University (Fairfax, VA)
David M. Lampton, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
Hastings College of the Law, University of California (San Francisco, CA)
Nicholas Howson, University of Michigan Law School
Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
Andrew Kipnis, Australian National University
Institute for Chinese Studies, Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Jennifer Turner, China Environment Forum, Woodrow Wilson Center
International Relations Council of Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)
Teng-Kee Tan, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver (Denver, CO)
Steve Lang, U.S. Department of State
Madison Committee on Foreign Relations (Madison, WI)
Douglas Spelman, Kissinger Institute
Maureen & Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana (Missoula, MT)
Darryl Johnson, Former U.S. Ambassador
Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
Christine Boyle, University of North Carolina
Northwest China Council (Portland, OR)
Melinda Herrold-Menzies, Pitzer College and Claremont Colleges
Pacific Forum Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) (Honolulu, HI)
Ira Kasoff, APCO Worldwide
Saint Joseph’s University (Philadelphia, PA)
Thomas Kellogg, Open Society Institute
South Dakota World Affairs Council (Brookings, SD)
Merritt (Terry) Cooke, China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia and T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Tsinghua University
Suffolk University (Boston, MA)
Allen Carlson, Cornell University
University at Buffalo, State University of New York (Buffalo, NY)
Peter Geithner, Asia Center at Harvard University
University of Connecticut School of Business - Stamford (Stamford, CT)
Janet Carmosky, China Business Network
University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
Mark Frazier, University of Oklahoma
University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)
Renqiu Yu, Purchase College, State University of New York
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
Nicholas Lardy, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy (Salt Lake City, UT)
I. Allen Barber II, Denver-Hainan Corporation
World Affairs Council of Arizona (Scottsdale, AZ)
Michael McCune, Iconoculture
World Affairs Council of Atlanta, with Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)
Richard McGregor, Financial Times
World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, with the University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)
Jamie Horsley, Yale Law School
World Affairs Council of New Orleans, the University of New Orleans, with Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
Kevin Nealer, The Scowcroft Group
World Affairs Council of Northern California (San Francisco, CA)
Michael Armacost, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center