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208 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 18 ratingsThe National Committee on United States-China Relations is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization that encourages understanding and cooperation between the United States and Greater China in the belief that sound and productive Sino-American relations serve vital American and world interests. With over four decades of experience developing innovative programs at the forefront of U.S.–China relations, the National Committee focuses its exchange, educational and policy activities on politics and security, education, governance and civil society, economic cooperation, media and transnational issues, addressing these with respect to mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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John Birch: A Life - Discussion with author Terry Lautz
February 18, 2016 18:24 - 1 hour - 26 MBBorn 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 happened after he was shot and killed by Chinese Communist forces in the days immediately follo...
David Lampton: Managing US-China Relations
January 28, 2016 19:32 - 27 minutes - 11.1 MBDr. 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 prepared remarks is available here: https://www.ncuscr.org/content/managing-relations-between-t...
Justin Yifu Lin: China’s Economy 2016 & Beyond
January 26, 2016 17:32 - 29 minutes - 11.9 MBFormer 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 7, 2016 in New York City. For information, presentation slides and video of the 2016 Forecast...
Shelley Rigger & Douglas Paal: Taiwan's Elections 2016
January 19, 2016 22:03 - 1 hour - 24.5 MBFollowing 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.-China Relations President Stephen Orlins to reflect on the outcome of the election, its significa...
Hong Kong-Mainland Relations: HK Secretary of Justice Rimsky Yuen
October 30, 2015 21:14 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBHong Kong Secretary of Justice, Rimsky Yuen discussed the state of Hong Kong-Mainland China relations and the future of the “One Country, Two Systems.” The discussion, moderated by Jerome Cohen, professor and co-director at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law, took place at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York City on October 30, 2015. The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading nonprofit nonpartisan organization that encou...
Engagement with China: Dorinda Elliott, Paulson Institute
October 30, 2015 21:01 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBFormer 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 China. This program, conducted at Greenwich Library in Greenwich, Connecticut, was part of the 20...
Obama-Xi Summit 2015: Sheena Greitens and Stapleton Roy
September 28, 2015 17:13 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBPRC President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the United States from September 22-25, 2015, has been closely watched on both sides of the Pacific. At the close of the bilateral summit, NCUSCR Public Intellectuals Program Fellow Sheena Chestnut Greitens, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri and NCUSCR Co-Chair, Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, managing director, Kissinger Associates, discussed the expectations, outcomes and key aspects of the Xi-Obama meetings,...
Meeting China Halfway: Defusing an Emerging US-China Rivalry
June 30, 2015 14:23 - 1 hour - 30.9 MBAlthough a Sino-U.S. conflict is far from inevitable, some assessments see tensions building in the Asia-Pacific region. Despite worrying signs of intensifying rivalry between Washington and Beijing, few observers have offered paths away from disaster. In Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry, author Lyle J. Goldstein focuses on American and Chinese perceptions of where their interests clash and proposes ways to ease bilateral tensions through compromise. Each ch...