Event Details

Sino-American relations are in [Choose a word]: "flux," "crisis," "free-fall," "all of the above." The two governments are engaged in siege warfare, with tariffs as their original weapons of choice, but all sorts of additional measures now conspicuously in their arsenals.


Moving forward, stable and cooperative engagements between China and the US may rely on the secondary sectors of the relationship, such as:

  • People-to-People programs
  • Educational exchanges
  • Cultural exchanges


To explore this potentiality, experts in bilateral engagement and the leaders of the US-China Education Trust, Ambassadors Nicholas Platt and Julia Chang Bloch, as well as USCET Special Advisor Robert Kapp (former President of the US-China Business Council) will sit down with AmCham China members and friends from the education world for a frank exchange of views on the state and the future of US-China relations in these important, secondary areas of bilateral engagement.



"Is continued progress possible?"


"Can this sector help to hold US-China relations on track?"


"How can US companies in China best position themselves: Offer a helping hand? Stay clear?"



Bring your own thoughts and opinions! This will be an interactive discussion between our high-level speakers and members, not a briefing.


This is the member only event and the event is off-the-record. To register, please purchase your ticket(s) by clicking "register" before 1:00 pm on Oct 23, 2019.


Please note that we will NOT accept any walk-ins or on-site payments for this event. For any questions, please contact Tingting Liu at tliu@amchamchina.org.

Agenda

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Registration and Networking
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Discussion and Q&A
Exchange of views on the state and the future of U.S.-China relations
4:30 PM - 4:35 PM
Closing remarks
4:35 PM - 5:00 PM
Coffee, Tea and Networking

Speakers

  • Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch (Founder and President of the US-China Education Trust)

    Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch

    Founder and President of the US-China Education Trust

    http://www.uscet.org/julia

    Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch is the first Asian American to hold such rank in U.S. history. She has had an extensive career in international affairs and government service, beginning in 1964 as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sabah, Malaysia and culminating as U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Nepal in 1989. From 1981 to 1988, Ambassador Bloch served at the U.S. Agency for International Development as Assistant Administrator of Food for Peace and Voluntary Assistance and as Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East, positions appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. She also was the Chief Minority Counsel to a Senate Select Committee; a Senate professional staff member; the Deputy Director of the Office of African Affairs at the U.S. Information Agency; a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and an Associate of the U.S.-Japan Relations Program of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard.

    After 25 years in government service, Ambassador Bloch moved to the corporate sector in 1993, becoming Group Executive Vice President at the Bank of America, where she created the Corporate Relations Department, heading the bank's Public Relations, Government Affairs, and Public Policy operations. From 1996 to 1998, Ambassador Bloch moved into philanthropy, serving as President and CEO of the United States-Japan Foundation, a private grant making institution, with $100 million in assets. Beginning in 1998, Ambassador Bloch shifted her focus to China, first becoming Visiting Professor at the Institute for International Relations and Executive Vice Chairman of the American Studies Center at Peking University, and subsequently affiliating with Fudan University in Shanghai, as well as the University of Maryland as Ambassador-in-Residence at the Institute for Global Chinese Affairs.

    A native of China who came to the U.S. at age nine, Ambassador Bloch grew up in San Francisco and earned a bachelor's degree in Communications and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964, and a master's degree in Government and East Asia Regional Studies from Harvard University in 1967. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Northeastern University in 1986.

    Ambassador Bloch serves on a number of corporate and non-profit boards, including: Asia Institute for Political Economy, the University of HK, the Atlantic Council, Council of American Ambassadors, US Asia Pacific Council, Meridian International Center, World Affairs Council, the Fund for American Studies, and Penn Mutual Insurance Co. She was elected as a Fellow to the National Academy of Public Administration and is on the Expert/Eminent Persons Register of the ASEAN Regional Forum, a member of the Woodrow Wilson Council, as well as Trustee Emeriti of the Asia Society, Honorary Member of the Board of Directors of the Friends Society of the Asian Division, Library of Congress, and Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and American Academy of Diplomacy, she also serves on the Edumasters International Advisory Committee and the Editorial Board of Berkshire Publishing Group's Encyclopedia of China.

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  • Robert A. Kapp (President at Robert A. Kapp & Associates)

    Robert A. Kapp

    President at Robert A. Kapp & Associates

    http://www.uscet.org/robert

    Dr. Kapp is senior China advisor to Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP ("K&L Gates"), a global law firm with more than twenty offices in Asia, North America, Europe, and the Middle East, including strong facilities in Greater China (including Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei), London, California, and Washington, D.C. He chairs the China Committee of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

    In addition, Dr. Kapp serves actively on a number of advisory boards of organizations deeply involved in contemporary Chinese affairs and US-China relations. These include The China Economic Quarterly and the Indiana University Research Center for Chinese Politics Business. Most recently, he has been advising China Dialogue - USA, an affiliate of the innovative bilingual website and blog Chinadialogue.net, which focuses on China's global discourse on environmental and climate change challenges. He is also a director of the Wilton Park USA Foundation.

    From April, 1994 to November, 2004, Dr. Kapp served as president of The US-China Business Council, which is the principal organization of major American companies engaged in trade and investment with China. He guided the organization’s business services, publications, and program activities through their Washington, D.C. headquarters and Beijing and Shanghai representative offices. Dr. Kapp also contributed regularly to informed U.S. dialogue on China through congressional testimony, published articles, frequent media appearances, and presentations to educational and community organizations nationwide. He has been widely recognized in the United States and China as a leader in the effort to sustain strong, mutually respectful relations between the two nations. In the field of corporate social responsibility, he was the initiator of The US-China Legal Cooperation (Funduschinalegalcoop.org), a corporate-supported program supporting bi-national projects for the development of China's legal and judicial systems. Since its inception in 1998, the Fund has provided more than a million dollars in support of a wide range of innovative and successful programs.

    From 1979 to 1987, he was the founding executive director of the Washington State China Relations Council. From 1987 to 1994 he served as president of the Washington Council on International Trade, a not-for-profit trade information and education association primarily concerned with trade policy issues. Dr. Kapp has been a frequent visitor to China since January, 1977.

    Dr. Kapp received his Ph.D. in modern Chinese history from Yale University. From 1970 to 1980, he taught Chinese history at Rice University (Houston) and the University of Washington (Seattle). From 1986 to 1991, Dr. Kapp was Lecturer at the University of Washington School of Business Administration, where he received a distinguished teaching award. He edited the scholarly publication The Journal of Asian Studies (1978-80). He has published one scholarly book and many articles, including one on U.S.-China relations which appeared in the scholarly journal World Economy and Politics in January, 2010.

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  • Ambassador Nicholas Platt (Chairman at USCET's Advisory Council)

    Ambassador Nicholas Platt

    Chairman at USCET's Advisory Council

    http://www.uscet.org/nicholas

    He was the former U.S. ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Zambia (1982-1984), the Philippines (1987-1991) and Pakistan (1991-1992). He has spent most of his life working on relations between the US and Asia, including serving as a high level diplomat in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. His ambassadorship was followed by twelve years as president of the Asia Society, beginning in 1992. He became president emeritus following his retirement July 1, 2004.

    Ambassador Platt's involvement with Asia began as a student of the Chinese language in Taiwan in the early sixties, and continued with Foreign Service assignments in Hong Kong (1964-68), Beijing (1973-74) and Tokyo (1974-77). In 1972 he accompanied President Nixon on the historic trip to Beijing that signaled the resumption of relations between the United States and China. He was one of the first members of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing when the United States established a mission there in 1973.

    In the course of his government service, Ambassador Platt served in several capacities in Washington, including as China analyst, director of Japanese affairs, National Security Council staff member for Asian affairs, deputy assistant secretary of defense (responsible for politico-military relations with Japan, Korea, China and Southeast Asia), acting assistant secretary of state for UN affairs (1981-1982), and executive secretary of the Department of State (1985-1987).

    Born in 1936, Ambassador Platt graduated from Harvard College in 1957 and earned an MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1959. He is a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of Scenic Hudson and of the Friends of China Heritage Fund Limited. Ambassador Platt and his wife, Sheila, have three grown sons: Adam, a writer; Oliver, an actor; and Nicholas Jr., an investment banker. They also have eight grandchildren. His memoir, China Boys, was published in March 2010.

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Venue

Ballroom A, China World Hotel, Beijing

No. 1 Jianguomen Outer Street
Beijing, China

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