National Committee on United States-China Relations – Annual Report 2008

NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON

UNITED STATES - CHINA RELATIONS

2008 Annual Report

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

November 2007 - November 2008

CHAIR

Carla A. Hills

VICE CHAIRMEN

Maurice R. Greenberg

Lee H. Hamilton

Thomas H. Kean

Nicholas R. Lardy

William R. Rhodes

James R. Sasser

TREASURER

Keith W. Abell

SECRETARY

Terrill E. Lautz

Madeleine K. Albright

Dennis C. Blair

Ray Bracy

Lincoln Chen

Thomas J. Christensen w

Kathryn D. Christopherson

Edward T. Cloonan

Jerome A. Cohen

Lorne W. Craner

Nelson G. Dong

Michael L. Ducker

Richard Edelman

Martin S. Feldstein

Thomas Fingar w

Barbara H. Franklin

Charles W. Freeman, III

Peter F. Geithner

David R. Gergen

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Thomas B. Gold

Clifford Holland

Jamie P. Horsley

David A. Jones, Jr.

Virginia Kamsky

Muhtar Kent

Henry A. Kissinger

Geraldine S. Kunstadter

David M. Lampton

James A. Leach

Richard C. Levin

Robert A. Levinson

Cheng Li

Sean Maloney

David R. Malpass

D. Bruce McMahan

Robert S. McNamara

Ken Miller

Douglas H. Paal

John G. Parker

Clark T. Randt, Jr. w

Charles S. Robb

David L. Shambaugh w

Edward S. Steinfeld

John L. Thornton

Kellee S. Tsai

I. Peter Wolff

w Appointed

November 2008

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NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON

UNITED STATES - CHINA RELATIONS

The National Committee on United States - China

Relations is a nonprofit educational organization that

encourages understanding of China and the United

States among citizens of both countries. The

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.

The Committee’s programs draw strength from its

members, who number more than 700 Americans

from all parts of the country and about 70 corporations

and professional firms. They represent many viewpoints,

but share the belief that productive U.S. - China

relations require ongoing public education, face-to-face

contact and forthright exchange of ideas.

The year covered by this report, 2008, was an election year. Americanschose a new president and he made a commitment to a new kind ofdiplomacy, a multilateral approach that can allow U.S.-China relations to

move to a higher plane. President Obama will have many opportunities to meetthe senior Chinese leadership in numerous international gatherings, but werecommend that in addition to these, the president make China the destination ofone of his first international trips and that he not only go early, but go often.

With the global economy suffering its worst downturn in decades andtransnational issues such as global warming, terrorism and nuclear proliferationraising worldwide concern, the role of stable and productive relations betweenthe United States and China has become more important than ever. Withoutmutual understanding and cooperation between the United States on China onthese issues, there is little hope of resolving or even ameliorating them. Buildingon a forty-three year history, the National Committee has redoubled itscommitment to its ongoing work of informing policy makers, educating andengaging next generation leaders, providing forums for direct interaction,discussing cutting-edge issues and educating Americans and Chinese about eachother’s country.

The National Committee is grateful to its membership and supporters, whoare vital partners as we work to ensure a trusting and fruitful Sino-Americanrelationship.

Carla A. HillsChair

Stephen A. OrlinsPresident

2 Annual Report 2008

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR & PRESIDENT

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EXCHANGES & CONFERENCES

For more than four decades, theNational Committee has been acatalyst for constructive change during

a period of unprecedented expansion inU.S.-China relations. National Committeeexchanges and conferences bring togetherleading policy makers, corporate leaders,academics, entrepreneurs, professionals,government officials and students from theUnited States and Greater China to promotestrong personal connections, informeddecision-making and durable andproductive Sino-American relations.

The U.S.-China relationship will play a pivotalrole in issues of global concern in the 21stcentury. National Committee work in

politics and security encourages stability and coop-eration by promoting face-to-face discussion,working relationships and ongoing collaborationamong policy makers, elected officials and militaryleaders from the United States and Greater China.

Congressional Staff Delegations to ChinaThe National Committee organized the first

Congressional staff delegation to China in 1976;since then it has sent several groups ofMembers and of staff to the People’s Republic.In 2006, the National Committee began a newphase of these programs by cooperating withthe U.S.-China Working Group on an ongoingseries of delegations, including two in 2008—one in March and the other in December—which were conducted under MutualEducation and Cultural Exchange Act(MECEA) guidelines. The U.S.-China WorkingGroup is a bipartisan initiative at the forefrontof Congressional dealings with issues in theSino-American relationship; the focus is onensuring that Members of Congress receivebalanced and accurate information aboutChina.

In March, the National Committee sent aten-person bipartisan delegation of key staffersrepresenting Members of the U.S.-China

Working Group to China. The programmaticfocus was energy security (from both thestrategic and environmental perspectives) andcounter-narcotics, though the group looked atseveral other issues as well. The NationalPeople’s Congress (NPC), the direct coun-terpart of the U.S. Congress, was the Chinesehost, and put together a very good schedulethat included official meetings with central,provincial and municipal officials, as well asopportunities to get together with people in thebusiness, academic, military, media, NGO,cultural and diplomatic sectors. The scheduleincluded Beijing; several places in YunnanProvince, including Kunming, Jinhong(Xishuangbanna) and Daluo, a small town onthe Burmese border; and Shanghai.

While Washington, D.C.-basedCongressional staff members focus on legis-lation, it is the district staff that interacts mostclosely with the public, dealing withconstituents on a regular basis. Thus, inDecember, the National Committee waspleased to send the first delegation of districtstaff directors to China. The focus of theprogram was the global economic crisis. PublicIntellectuals Program fellow Dr. KatherineKaup, a delegation escort, provided usefulbackground information for the visit.

Among its many activities, the eight-member bipartisan delegation spent time inBeijing at meetings with senior officials at theMinistry of Foreign Affairs and othergovernment agencies, as well as gettingtogether with journalists and other profes-sionals working in various aspects of Chinesesociety. In Guangzhou and Dongguan, cities inthe southern province of Guangdong, factoryvisits and meetings with leaders of theprovincial People’s Congress, the U.S.Consulate General and regional trade officials,brought home the reality of how severely theworldwide financial crisis was affecting themanufacturing sector. Hefei and Wuhu, inAnhui Province, featured visits to a majorsoftware company, a sapling and flowerproducer and several manufacturing facilitiesin an industrialized economic developmentarea, including one of China’s most successfulautomobile companies. Discussions in

Head of the Congressional District Staff Delegation JasperMacSlarrow talks with Ren Haishen, vice chairman of theAnhui Provincial People’s Congress Standing Committee


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Shanghai with a popular blogger who headsChina’s leading classifieds web site, aprominent local attorney and officials from theMunicipal People’s Congress rounded out theweek-long program.

The caliber of official meetings and warmreception provided by the National People’sCongress, host for both delegations, and by themany others involved in these two programs,underscores the value of these visits for bothour participants and their interlocutors, andthe importance they have for providing oppor-tunities for access to and personal connectionsbetween China and the United States.

Strategic Security Issues Delegation to thePeople’s Republic of China and Taiwan

This year marked a decade that the NationalCommittee has collaborated with the Stanford–Harvard Preventive Defense Project (PDP) toconduct a series of Track II dialogues amongsenior leaders from the United States,Mainland China and Taiwan on cross-Straitissues, Sino-American relations and northeastAsian security. The most recent of theseprograms took place in June and July inTaiwan (Taipei and Kinmen) and Beijing,during a time of unprecedented opportunity incross-Strait relations. The constructive talks

yielded several productive developments. The delegation was led by former Secretary

of Defense William Perry and included Dr.Perry’s PDP co-chair, Dr. Ashton Carter of theJohn F. Kennedy School of Government atHarvard and, among others, NationalCommittee members Ambassador JosephPrueher, Dr. Kurt Campbell, Dr. David M.Lampton, Dr. Evan Medeiros, NationalCommittee President Stephen Orlins and VicePresident Jan Berris.

The group was in Taiwan one month afterthe inauguration of President Ma Ying-jeouand met with President Ma, Vice PresidentVincent Siew, National Security CouncilSecretary General Su Chi, Defense MinisterChen Chao-min, Foreign Minister FranciscoOu, and other top officials. A day-long visit toKinmen (Quemoy) included discussions withthe magistrate of the island and the general incharge of the Kinmen Defense Command.

In Beijing, the group met with PresidentChen Yunlin of the Association for Relationsacross the Taiwan Straits and key officials atthe Central Military Commission, includingGeneral Xu Caihou and Major General ChenXiaogong. The centerpiece of the program wasa two-day Track II seminar with formerForeign Ministry officials, PLA officers,

“I cannot think of a more relevant subject worthy ofstudy for those like me. The remarkable assemblage ofmen and women you orchestrated for our benefit isstaggering. I look forward to continuing myengagement and enlightenment on Chinese issues to thebenefit of both our nations.”

Brigadier General (Select) Michael J. Carey,Deputy Director, J-3, Global Operations, U.S.Strategic Command, discussing public health inChina with Susan Lawrence, head of the ChinaProgram at the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids


China Briefing for U.S. Air Force Officers

Participant Perspective: Brigadier General (Select) Michael J. Carey

analysts and academics. In both Taiwan and Mainland China, the

delegation proposed a step-by-step approachto the issues as a framework for ongoingengagement, a strategy that resonated withboth sides.

Conference: China, the United States and theEmerging Global Agenda

In July 2008, the National Committeebrought together thirty of the best minds onvarious aspects of China and several specialistsin other areas for an in-depth discussion ofsome of the major challenges facing China andthe United States and what the best policiesmight be to enhance cooperation and reduceconflict over them. “China, the United Statesand the Emerging Global Agenda,” a two-dayconference held at the Aspen Wye RiverConference Center in Queenstown, Maryland,explored the major dimensions of Americanrelations with China over the next decade andfocused on our long-term interests rather thanthe immediate problems that tend to dominatesuch discussions.

The conference, funded by the StarrFoundation, centered around three majorsessions, each on a topic of crucial importanceto the two countries and to the overall rela-tionship: economics and trade, security andpolitics, and climate change. The sessionsbegan with comments from a panel consistingof a chair, the writer of a background paperand two discussants; however, the majority of

time was spent in very lively discussion of thevarious issues. The very informative back-ground papers are available on the NationalCommittee’s web site.

China Briefing for U.S. Air Force OfficersThe National Committee continued its

successful series of intensive briefings on Chinafor next-generation military leaders with afour-day program for prominent mid-careerofficers of the U.S. Air Force in September 2008.The program, which began with a briefing forofficers of the U.S. Navy in 2007, wasdeveloped at the suggestion of former NationalCommittee Director Dennis Blair, AdmiralUSN (Ret.) and now Director of NationalIntelligence. He noted that while he is wellversed on military and security issuespertaining to China, knowledge about otheraspects of the PRC would have enhanced hiswork when he was responsible for U.S. forcesin the Pacific Command.

The program, held outside of Washington,D.C., brought together brigadier generals,major generals and colonels from bases aroundthe globe for presentations and discussionswith top figures in the China field including,among others, National Committee directorsDr. David M. Lampton, Dr. Cheng Li, Dr.Kenneth Lieberthal and Ambassador J.Stapleton Roy. Topics included China’s foreignpolicy and domestic challenges; environmental,energy and health issues; and economics,business and law.

Inspired by the enthusiastic response to thisseries of offerings, the National Committee isdiscussing a similar program for the U.S.Army, and is considering a joint trip to Chinafor participants from all three militarybriefings.

Policy Leaders Orientation ProgramThe Policy Leaders Orientation Program

helps mid-career Chinese policy makersenhance their understanding of the UnitedStates and their dealings with Americansthrough an intensive two-week introduction toU.S. politics, history, culture and society.While many Chinese officials have regularcontact with Americans, they have fewer


Participants in the conference “China, the United States andthe Emerging Global Agenda” in Queenstown, Maryland

Jeanne Barnett (widow of National Committee founder DoakBarnett) hosted Wang Min, first secretary at the ChineseConsulate General in New York, during the homestay portionof the Policy Leaders Orientation Program.

opportunities to study the United States orhave personal interactions with Americansoutside of their official spheres. This programprovides them with vital personal and profes-sional links to American society. It has its rootsin the Counselor Orientation Program run bythe National Committee in the 1980s and hastwo distinct parts: one for American-basedofficials from the Chinese Embassy, Consulatesand Mission to the United Nations; the other isfor officials at ministries and agencies in China.Generally one of each of these programs is runeach year, though the 2008 program for U.S.-based officials was postponed to January 2009because of scheduling conflicts.

A delegation of twelve promising youngofficials spent two weeks in Williamsburg,Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Gettysburg andHarrisburg, Pennsylvania; and New York City.The group was drawn from the Ministries ofForeign Affairs, Environmental Protection, andCulture; the National Development andReform Commission, the People’s Bank ofChina; the General Administration of QualitySupervision, Inspection and Quarantine; theCommunist Youth League, the ChinesePeople’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and theShanghai Institute for International Studies.

During site visits, briefings and officialmeetings, the delegation members focused onU.S. history, the foundations of our politicaland legal systems, the American financial situ-ation, the role of the nonprofit sector, themedia, and the work of and relationshipamong local, state and federal governments.Participants gained a more personal view ofAmerican society and daily life through home-stays in Washington, D.C., which providedopportunities for closer interaction withAmericans and their communities.

The program has received consistent praisefrom participants, many of whom remain incontact with the National Committee as theircareers progress.

Human Rights Foundation DelegationThe National Committee hosted a ground-

breaking visit to the United States by aten-member delegation focusing on humanrights and philanthropy. The group was led by

Vice Premier Huang Mengfu, chairman of theChina Foundation for Human RightsDevelopment. Mr Huang is the most seniorPRC human rights official to have visited theUnited States; while here he forged new rela-tionships and initiated important dialogues onhuman rights issues with prominent Americanfoundations, human rights organizations andthe media. The meetings in New York,Washington, D.C. and Boston in Novembercame at an opportune time, closely followingChina’s announcement that it was drafting anational action plan to protect human rights.

In addition to his role at the Foundation,Mr. Huang is also vice chairman of the ChinesePeople’s Political Consultative Conference,China’s top legislative advisory body, andchairman of the All-China Federation ofIndustry and Commerce, where he has beeninstrumental in the development of China’snon-public economic sectors.

In New York, the delegation met withHuman Rights Watch Executive DirectorKenneth Roth; National Committee DirectorMaurice R. Greenberg, chairman of C.V. Starr& Co. and chairman of the Starr Foundation,which has a long history of philanthropy inChina; Ford Foundation President Luis A.Ubiñas; Rockefeller Foundation PresidentJudith Rodin; Citi Foundation Director MichaelSchlein; and members of the editorial boards of


Congressional Staff Members DelegationBeijing, Kunming, Jinghong, Daluo, ShanghaiMarch 22–30 Funders: Unrestricted funds, Embassy of the PRCPartners: National People’s Congress, U.S.-China Working Group

Strategic Security Issues DialogueTaipei, Kinmen, BeijingJune 23–July 1Funder: Starr Foundation, China Foundationfor International and Strategic StudiesPartner: Stanford-Harvard Preventive DefenseProject

Conference: China, the United States and theEmerging Global AgendaQueenstown, MarylandJuly 13–15Funder: Starr Foundation

China Briefing for U.S. Air Force OfficersWarrenton, VirginiaSeptember 2–5Funder: Starr Foundation

Human Rights Foundation DelegationNew York, Washington, BostonNovember 16–25Funder: China Foundation for Human RightsDevelopment, Starr Foundation

Policy Leaders Orientation Program Williamsburg, Washington, D.C., Gettysburg,Harrisburg, New York CityNovember 30–December 13Funder: Starr FoundationPartner: Chinese People’s Institute of ForeignAffairs

Congressional District Staff DirectorsDelegationBeijing; Guangzhou and Dongguan,Guangdong; Hefei and Wuhu, Anhui;ShanghaiDecember 6–14Funders: Unrestricted fundsPartners: National People’s Congress, U.S.-China Working Group

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forum in China on philanthropy and humanrights and Mr. Huang viewed his visit as a keyopportunity to initiate this and other programsin these areas, which play critical roles in U.S.-China relations.


the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Meetings in Washington, D.C. were held

with the president and senior officials of organ-izations including the Brookings Institution,the Carnegie Endowment for InternationalPeace, the Center for Strategic andInternational Studies; with Acting AssistantSecretary of State for East Asian and PacificAffairs John Norris and with Fred Hiatt,editorial page editor and member of theWashington Post editorial board.

Mr. Huang also delivered an address atHarvard University’s Fairbank Center forChinese Studies on China’s new national actionplan and issues affecting human rights inChina. Included were developments in China’spolitical system and government, economicand rural-urban disparities and the challengesof balancing reform with stability in theworld’s most populous nation.

The Foundation for Human RightsDevelopment hopes to establish an annual

Vice Premier Huang Mengfu, chairman of the ChinaFoundation for Human Rights Development, atHarvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Acentral part of the National Committee’smission is to introduce next-generationleaders from the United States and China

to one another, and to educate each about the other’scountry. Several noteworthy programs with thisgoal were conducted in 2008, providing opportu-nities for learning and dialogue while promotingsustained interaction and ongoing relationships thatwill enhance Sino-American relations in the decadesto come.

Public Intellectuals Program II From 2005 to 2007, the Public Intellectuals

Program (PIP) brought together twenty of themost promising of the younger generation ofAmerican China scholars and specialists tointroduce them to senior U.S. and Chinesepolicy makers; expand their knowledge aboutChina’s politics, economics and society beyondtheir own areas of specialization; and givethem the skills to use this knowledge to informpolicy and educate the public. The first roundof PIP was so successful that both the Henry

Luce Foundation and the Starr Foundationagreed to fund a second round.

In May 2008, twenty new PIP fellows wereselected from an extremely competitive field ofapplicants. The first gathering of the fellowswas in October, in Washington, D.C., wherethey were introduced to the program and oneanother, made the rounds of the major D.C.-based institutions (government and private)that focus on China, and spent a day on mediatraining to help them develop the skills neededto engage effectively with the public.

In addition to two such meetings inWashington, the two-year enrichment programincludes a conference in San Francisco (to get toknow the Bay Area China-related organizationsand individuals); travel to China together (intwo separate groups) and separately as scholarescorts for National Committee delegations;and the development and running of a localpublic education program by each fellow.Student Leaders Exchange

Now in its fifth year, the Student Leaders

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U.S.–China Student Leaders Exchange

“I got to experience and do so many diverse and uniquethings that I know I would have never had the chance toexperience if I had gone there as a tourist by myself. Thetrip did not introduce me to China as a foreign country, itimmersed me in its culture, its traditions, its people, itshistory, and made me a part of its present. Most impor-tantly, I have a newly found interest and a great curiosityto know, to explore, and to discover even more.”

Presidential Scholar Paola Melendez of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, at an orphanage schoolin Luoyang

Participant Perspective: Paola Melendez, Presidential Scholar

Exchange (SLE) took twelve of America’s mostoutstanding high school seniors on anintensive two-week study tour to China, wherethey experienced aspects of China’s history,society and culture that ordinary visitors rarelysee, while forging new friendships and lastingconnections with China.

Each year, the U.S. Department ofEducation designates 141 of the nation’s mostpromising graduating high school seniors asPresidential Scholars: it is from this excep-tional pool that the National Commmitteeselects SLE participants. This year’s cohortwent to Beijing, Xi’an and Luoyang forbriefings and activities that introduced them toChina’s long, rich history and vibrant, modernsociety. Participants experienced life in Chinafirsthand through activities that includedhomestays in each city with Chinese familieswith teenage “host siblings,” teaching Englishto students in a rural area, and spending timewith developmentally disabled preschoolers inan orphanage. The SLE group was alsofeatured on the popular China CentralTelevision talk show “Us.”

SLE has turned out to be a transformingexperience. Participants from past years havecredited SLE with inspiring them to engagewith and learn more about China, and half of

the students in the 2008 program tookuniversity-level coursework on China (acountry that had not been an area of interestprior to the trip) and a quarter of themcommitted to return to China the followingsummer.

In conjunction with SLE, the NationalCommittee also offered an intensive briefing onChina for educators chosen by the PresidentialScholars to accompany them to NationalRecognition Week in Washington, D.C. anddesignated as “master teachers” by theDepartment of Education. This was anexcellent opportunity for the NationalCommittee to reach out to some of the nation’sfinest secondary school educators, who appre-ciated both the opportunity to engage with theexcellent panel of speakers on China and thebooks provided for further reading.

Foreign Policy ColloquiumThe sixth annual U.S. Foreign Policy

Colloquium, held in Washington, D.C. in June,provided an inside view of American foreignpolicy from foremost specialists, business-people and government officials to 150outstanding students from the People’sRepublic of China currently studying ingraduate programs at American universities.

Organized jointly by the National

Public Intellectuals Program fellows and advisorycommittee members visit the National Academy of Sciencesin Washington, D.C.


Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary ofState for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (second row, r)and National Committee President Stephen Orlins withparticipants in the Foreign Policy Colloquium

Committee and the Elliott School ofInternational Affairs at the George WashingtonUniversity and funded by AmericanInternational Group, Inc., The Coca-ColaCompany and Anheuser-Busch, theColloquium included lectures, panels anddirect interaction with speakers who, this year,included Assistant Secretary of StateChristopher Hill, former Senator and Governorof Virginia Charles Robb, former AttorneyGeneral and Pennsylvania Governor RichardThornburgh, and journalist Ted Koppel. Sitevisits included foreign policy-related discus-sions at government, business and nonprofitinstitutions where participants were able tohave their questions addressed in depth. Thekeynote speaker was respected politicalanalyst Norman Ornstein, who spoke aboutChina as an issue in the congressional andpresidential elections.

Young Leaders ForumThe Young Leaders Forum (YLF) brings

together prominent young Chinese andAmericans from a range of fields and profes-sions who are selected on the basis of theiraccomplishments, leadership potential andparticipation in civic and international affairs.Participants are under forty years of age uponentering YLF and attend the program (heldalternately in the United States and China) forthree years, after which many attend as alumni.YLF creates fertile professional and personalconnections that both enhance individualcareers and ultimately benefit both the UnitedStates and China as fellows continue their lead-ership roles on both sides of the Pacific.

The four-day 2008 Forum, funded by theAce Charitable Foundation, was held inSnoqualmie, Washington, in September andwas attended by thirty-five fellows and alumni.


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“I enjoyed having the executive director of New York’sMiller Theater helping me learn how music changes life,discussing the importance of space technology with anAmerican astronaut, debating about U.S. policy on Chinawith the National Security Council’s China director, orgetting insights about the Iraq war from a lieutenantcolonel in the U.S. Air Force who just got back fromthere. It was both inspiring and life-changing.”

YLF alums Wang Jian Shuo (YLF 2008) andAndrew McLaughlin (YLF 2005) at the 2008forum in Snoqualmie, WA

Participant Perspective: Wang Jian Shuo, CEO of Baixing.com

Master Teacher China SeminarWashington, D.C.June 23Funder: Private sourcesPartner: U.S. Department of Education

Student Leaders Exchange Beijing, Xi’an, LuoyangJune 26–July 11Funder: Wall Street EnglishPartner: China Education Association forInternational Exchange, U.S. Department ofEducation

Foreign Policy ColloquiumWashington, D.C.June 4–7Funders: American International Group, Inc.,The Coca-Cola Company, Anheuser-BuschPartner: Elliott School of International Affairs,The George Washington University

Young Leaders ForumSnoqualmie and Seattle, WashingtonSeptember 18–22Funder: Ace Charitable FoundationPartner: Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs

Public Intellectuals Program Fellows ConferenceWashington, D.C.October 2–6Funders: Henry Luce Foundation,Starr Foundation

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The intellectually and professionally focuseddiscussions and presentations were balancedby social and team-building activities thatenabled fellows to get to know one anotherfrom a different perspective and strengthen theYLF community. The diverse backgrounds,working experience and interests of the partici-pants make the forum a uniquely valuableexperience.


YLF participants (l to r) Pei Xiaofei (2008 fellow), PaulHaenle (2002 fellow), Jennifer Dulski (2008 fellow) andKim Ng (2007 fellow)

For more than thirty-five years, the NationalCommittee has been at the forefront increating educational exchanges between the

United States and China, from intensive studytours for educators to year-long professional place-ments for American and Chinese teachers. Demandfor education-focused programs continues toexpand as interest in China and Chinese languageprograms rapidly increases in the United States andEnglish is studied by more Chinese children thanthere are Americans. As the two countries andcultures grow closer on multiple levels, theNational Committee enables educators from bothcountries to learn about and experience the otherand in turn effectively educate the next generationabout the realities of the U.S.-China relationship.

The U.S. – China Teachers Exchange ProgramFew programs have offered greater oppor-

tunities for sustained contact betweenindividuals in the two societies than the U.S. –China Teachers Exchange Program (TEP),which entered its thirteenth year in 2008.

Generously funded by the FreemanFoundation, TEP is the only national programin the United States that sends professionalAmerican and Chinese teachers to spend anacademic year teaching in the other country,thus providing a unique opportunity for theeducators to live in and learn about the UnitedStates and China while touching the lives ofthe thousands of students with whom theywork.

The benefits of the program are twofold:teachers bring inspiration and enthusiasm to

the study of language and culture, and to thecommunities they live in, by serving as a livinglink to their native country. At the same time,they are immersed in a new education system,language and culture during their stay, andreturn home with deeper appreciation, inno-vative ideas and a wealth of knowledge aboutlife in their host country. The teachers sharetheir knowledge during the course of theircareers and collectively have a profoundimpact on the way the next generation in theUnited States and China will regard oneanother.

The Teachers Exchange Program placedtwenty-four Chinese teachers in schoolsthroughout the United States in both the 2007 –2008 and 2008 – 2009 academic years, and eightAmerican teachers taught at schools in fiveChinese cities during the 2007 – 2008 academicyear. Participants attended an intensive pre-departure orientation in their home countrythat covered issues relating to the educationalsystem and culture they would be entering andexpectations of them as teachers and culturalambassadors. Both groups also attended mid-year conferences in the host country, duringwhich they shared their experiences, collabo-rated on ways to address the challenges ofteaching in a new system and developed ideason how to incorporate what they had learnedduring their stay into their teaching once theyreturned home. Many of the visiting Chineseeducators also attended an optional ten-daysummer study tour where they supplementedtheir experiences in the United States with anoverview of the country’s historical founda-tions, government, nonprofit sector andeducational system.

Museums and Educational Outreach in ChinaAmerican museums have long played an

active role as educators of the general public.By contrast, Chinese museums have servedprimarily as conservators of the nationalcultural heritage, with their prime responsi-bility being research and preservation of theircollections. However, as museums in Chinahave become popular destinations in recentyears, and with a new free admission policy setby the central government, there has beengrowing recognition that they should better

Teachers Exchange Program participant Zhang Fang duringthe 2007-2008 academic year in Royal Oak, Michigan


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engage and educate the general public andChina’s youth.

To address this need, the NationalCommittee developed an innovative two-wayexchange program for museum professionalsand specialists from China and the UnitedStates to share best practices on how museumscan engage young audiences and serve aseducational resources. Funded by the U.S.State Department’s Bureau of Educational andCultural Affairs, the first phase of the programtook six prominent American museumeducation professionals and specialists fromthe Brooklyn Historical Society, ColumbiaUniversity, The Frick Collection, the SolomonR. Guggenheim Museum and the SmithsonianInstitution to Shanghai, Changsha and Beijingfor two weeks in June. The group met withprofessional counterparts, visited a range ofChinese museums and served as the center-piece of a major conference on art museumeducation held at the National Art Museum ofChina in Beijing.


“For the returning teacher, it is hard to believe just howmuch his perception of China has changed sincebeginning the exchange. In the end, he finds that his tripwas a wonderful benefit personally and academicallybecause it forced him to examine himself and his percep-tions of the world more deeply. Finally, when backhome, the teacher has his memories from which he candraw a variety of stories for his students and colleagueswhen necessary to become a more interesting andbalanced teacher. ”

Jessie Koenig with a student during the 2007-2008 academic year in Anqing, Anhui Province

U.S.–China Teachers Exchange Program

Participant Perspective: Jessie Koenig, Teacher


Museums and Educational Outreach exchange participantswere the centerpiece of a major conference at the NationalArt Museum of China in Beijing

The delegation received extensive mediaattention, particularly in Changsha and at theBeijing conference.

The second phase of the program will bringnine Chinese museum specialists to severalU.S. cities in 2009 for a two-week study tour,and one-month internships at major museumsfor three of the participants to give them prac-tical experience in managing youth-focusededucation programs.

Secondary School Reform DelegationNational Committee study tours for

Chinese educators are conducted on behalf ofthe U.S. Department of Education and China’sMinistry of Education and focus on specificthemes for two years each. The 2008Secondary School Reform Delegation was thethird in the series, and provided the oppor-tunity for twelve secondary school principals,senior administrators and representatives fromthe Ministry of Education to participate in atwo-week study tour of Washington, D.C.,Atlanta, Denver and Los Angeles.

The delegation members observed theworkings of the American educational system,including special education, communityservice, student counseling, teacher recruit-ment, the role of museums in education andthe involvement of parents and the broadercommunity in schools. The program delivereda wealth of material to principals and adminis-

trators able to drive change in their districtsand individual schools. Of particular interestto the participants was the emphasis on indi-vidualism and creativity in Americaneducation, and the focus on collaboration andproblem-solving. They enthusiasticallyplanned to share their experiences withcolleagues after their return to China, to adaptsome American innovations into their schools,and to increase communication and exchangebetween Chinese and American schools.


U.S.–China Teachers Exchange Program2007–2008 and 2008–2009 Academic YearsFunder: Freeman FoundationPartners: China Education Association forInternational Exchange; eight host schools infive Chinese cities and twenty-two host schoolsin fourteen American cities and towns

Museums and Educational OutreachDelegationShanghai, Changsha, BeijingJune 6–20Funder: U.S. Department of State, Bureau ofEducational and Cultural Affairs

Education Delegation: Secondary School ReformWashington, D.C., Atlanta, Denver, Los AngelesNovember 29–December 12Funder: U.S. Department of EducationPartners: Ministry of Education, ChinaEducation Association for InternationalExchange, U.S. Department of Education

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Chinese secondary school principals and senior administratorsvisit the National Association of Secondary School Principalsin Reston, Virginia

National Committee programs in the areasof governance and civil society enableofficials and professionals from the United

States and Greater China to share best practicesand cutting-edge ideas, while developing a betterunderstanding of their counterparts across thePacific and the global relationships that connectthem. The programs in 2008 exemplify these goals.

Best Practices in Municipal E-GovernanceDelegation

The rapidly developing field of municipale-governance was the focus of a two-partproject that brought together American andChinese e-governance specialists. The firsttook place in 2007 when four American expertsled workshops in Mainland China and Taiwanon innovative municipal programs that serveas models for other cities. A prominentexample is Beijing’s Dongcheng District CityGrid Management System, which has attractedattention around China and was cited byMicrosoft Chairman Bill Gates as a remarkableinnovation in e-governance.

In March 2008, eight leading municipalinformation officers and specialists fromBeijing, Hangzhou and Taichung visitedWashington, D.C., Tampa and Seattle toexchange ideas on e-government initiativeswith their colleagues in these American cities,all of which are known for their leadership inthe field. A series of in-depth briefings in eachcity addressed specific case studies that shednew light on participants’ work. InWashington, D.C., the group studied theDepartment of Motor Vehicles’ “One Done”program; the city’s Geographic InformationSystem, which supports services such as a bulktrash pickup program; and the Safe Passageinformation system, which streamlines servicedelivery by multiple agencies supporting indi-viduals in need. In Tampa, the delegation wasimpressed with a site that consolidates over400 online government services, from eventcalendars to utility billing to issuingconstruction permits. The Seattle stop focusedon information security management tech-niques; the Digital Inclusion program, whichpromotes access and computer training todisadvantaged groups; and Microsoft’s e-

government technology. An important aspect of this exchange was

that it offered an opportunity for cross-Straitcollaboration, with the combined MainlandChina–Taiwan delegation spending two weekstogether visiting U.S. cities, learning new ideasand sharing professional insights aimed atimproving their cities and municipalities.

Mayors Delegation on Urban SustainableDevelopment

The National Committee has a longtradition of providing opportunities for theexchange of municipal leaders: in 1978, theCommittee hosted the visit of the first Chinesemayoral delegation to the United States and in1979, sent the first delegation of Americanmayors to China. The focus of the latestprogram in this area was the sharing of ideasand best practices in energy conservation,urban sustainability and green development.

The National Committee worked with theNational League of Cities (NLC) to assemble adelegation that included the mayors of cities inthe forefront of the urban green movement:Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Portland, Oregon

Chien Shu-Fen, chief of the Information ManagementSection Revenue Service Office in Taichung City, Taiwan,meets with Marilyn Sheck, information technologymanager at the Seattle Public Library as part of adelegation on best practices in e-governance

Governance & Civil Society


and Northglenn, Colorado. (The mayor of thelatter was the incoming president of the NLC.)

Among the highlights of the two week visitwere meetings in Beijing with the minister ofEnvironmental Protection, the city’s vice mayorin charge of planning and construction, repre-sentatives of the Natural Resource DefenseCouncil and the municipal Commission ofUrban Planning; at the Olympic sailing centerin Qingdao, built to the most modern greenstandards; and with representatives ofShanghai’s sustainable transport partnership,leaders of the city’s energy conservation super-vision center, and Vincent Lo, head of the ShuiOn company, which has undertaken a majorredevelopment of the Xintiandi area by retro-fitting and conserving older buildings andtraditional architecture.

The mayors were inspired by their meetingwith founder and head of the Institute of Publicand Environmental Affairs Ma Jun, whosepresentation on a water pollution accounta-bility database he has developed had particularresonance. They also gained much from ameeting with Dong Shanfeng, chief planner atthe Shanghai Industrial Investment

Corporation’s Dongtan eco-city, planned as theworld’s first sustainable city and expected to bea leader in implementing renewable energysources and sustainable urban planning.

This very successful program provideddelegation members a deeper understanding ofthe challenges facing China, the efforts andinnovations being undertaken to overcomeurban development issues and the sense thatthey had both learned from their Chinese coun-terparts and contributed something in return.

Delegation of Foreign Policy and PublicAffairs Journal Editors

Public opinion and policy decisions areboth influenced by coverage of the U.S.-Chinarelationship in the media, particularly journalsdealing with international issues. In May 2008,the National Committee conducted anintensive ten-day study tour to Beijing,Shanghai and Taipei for six foreign policy andpublic affairs journal editors, providing them acurrent and in-depth view of important facetsof government and society in the PRC andTaiwan.

Participants included the senior or


“I will forever be grateful for the experience ofvisiting China with you. It was a remarkableexperience, in no small part due to yourgracious and generous hosting and engagingdialogue. ”

Mayors Delegation on Urban Sustainable Development to China

Participant Perspective: Ralph Becker, Mayor, Salt Lake City, Utah



managing editors of The American Interest,International Security, The American Prospect, TheNational Journal, Ethics & International Affairsand Slate. Ambassador Darryl Johnson, formerdeputy assistant secretary of state for EastAsian and Pacific Affairs served as a scholarescort.

Among many briefings, meetings and sitevisits, the trip had several highlights: In Beijingthe group discussed public attitudes aboutforeign policy and the United States with thechair of a prominent polling consultancy,learned about China’s domestic environmentalchallenges at the Natural Resources DefenseCouncil, and explored the realities and chal-lenges of reporting on contemporary Chinafrom bureau chiefs and leading journalistsfrom CNN, NPR, The Los Angeles Times,Newsweek and the Chicago Tribune. In Shanghai,participants learned about China’s trade policyand integration into the global economy,discussed domestic journalism with students atthe Fudan University School of Journalism, andexplored China’s foreign policy agenda,regional policies and transnational relations onissues such as climate change at the ShanghaiInstitute for International Studies.

The Taipei portion of the study tour,coming shortly before the inauguration ofnewly-elected president Ma Ying-jeou, gavethe group the opportunity for a balancedperspective of the cross-Strait relationship. Aparticularly insightful discussion was heldwith political scientist Ho Szu-Yin and foreign

Municipal E-Governance DelegationWashington, D.C., Tampa, SeattleMarch 8–20Funder: U.S. Department of State, Bureauof Educational and Cultural Affairs

Foreign Policy and Political AffairsJournal Editors DelegationBeijing, Shanghai, TaipeiMay 2–13Funder: Starr Foundation

Mayors Delegation on Urban SustainableDevelopmentBeijing, Qingdao, ShanghaiSeptember 6–14Funder: Starr FoundationPartners: National League of Cities,Chinese People’s Institute of ForeignAffairs

Government & Civil Society - 2008 programs

policy specialist Su Chi; on the morning of themeeting, local media announced that Su, whohad served as Ma Ying-jeou’s foreign policyadvisor during the campaign, had beenappointed national security advisor in the newadministration and that Ho would be hisdeputy, a development that gave the meetingeven greater relevance.

The Delegation of Foreign Policy and Public Affairs JournalEditors, pictured at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, includedsenior representatives from The American Interest,International Security, The American Prospect, TheNational Journal, Ethics & International Affairs andSlate


PUBLIC EDUCATION & OUTREACH

The National Committee providescurrent information on Greater Chinaand issues of U.S.-China relations

from leading specialists directly to itsmembers and the public through seminars,panel programs, publications, e-mailbriefings and conference calls. Theseofferings are coordinated with the NationalCommittee’s web site (www.ncuscr.org),which offers video, audio and transcriptsfrom selected programs, as well as updatesand publications.

The following programs were held in New York

City, unless otherwise indicated.

January 3Making Sense of a Changing China: ADialogue among Academics and Journalistsw Susan Lawrence, Head of China

Programs, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids; former correspondent, Far Eastern Economic Review

w John Pomfret, Editor, Outlook Section, Washington Post

w Kellee Tsai, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

w Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor, University of California, Irvine

w Timothy Weston, Associate Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder

Washington D.C.

January 8Jones Day China Lecture SeriesThe Economic and Strategic Rise of China andIndia: Asian Realignments after the 1997Financial Crisisw David Denoon, Professor of Politics

and Economics, New York University

January 25Roundtable Discussion on China’s PoliciesAfter the 17th Party Congress

w Li Zhongjie, Research Center of the History of the Communist Party

w Zhang Junkuo, Development Research Center of the State Council

w Chen Yaoyao, State Council Information Office

February 19Roundtable Discussion with Shen Dingli,Director, Center for American Studie,s andExecutive Vice Dean, Institute of InternationalAffairs, Fudan University

February 21Memorial Barnett–Oksenberg Lecture on Sino-American Relationsw Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr.

Chairman, Projects International, Inc.Former Assistant Secretary of Defense

Shanghai

February 26Jones Day China Lecture SeriesInternational Climate Change Negotiations:Beijing and Washington Strategies

w Rob Bradley, Director, International Climate Policy Initiative, World Resources Institute

w Joanna Lewis, Senior International Fellow, Pew Center on Global Climate Change


Former U.S. Ambassadors to China (l to r) Winston Lord, James Lilley, J. Stapleton Roy, James Sasser andJoseph Prueher with National Committee President Stephen Orlins at Once Upon a Time in Beijing

Public Education & Outreach

March 13Roundtable Discussion with Pan Zhenqiangand China Reform Forum Delegationw Pan Zhenqiang, Executive Member,

Council of China Reform Forum; Deputy Chairman, China Foundation for International Studies; and Director, Research Institute for Strategy and Management, Central University of Finance and Economics.

March 19Jones Day China Lecture SeriesManaging the Dragon: How I’m Building a BillionDollar Business in China: Author JackPerkowski, Chairman and CEO, ASIMCO

March 24Conference Call on the Taiwan Presidential Electionw Shelley Rigger, Associate Professor of

Political Science, Davidson College

w Alan Romberg, Distinguished Fellow, Stimson Center

March 25Roundtable Discussion with Ma Zhengang,President, China Institute of InternationalStudies, and China Institute of InternationalStudies Delegation

April 8Roundtable Discussion with Nick Young,Founder, China Development Brief

April 8Young and Restless in China: Film Screeningwith Sue Williams, Documentary Filmmaker,Ambrica Productions

April 9Roundtable Discussion on the Beijing Olympicswith James Heimowitz,, President & CEO,North Asia and Chairman, China of Hill &Knowlton Asia Ltd.

April 16Conference Call on China and Tibet: History,Current Situation, and Implications for U.S.-China Relations

w Professor A. Tom Grunfeld, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Empire State College, State University of New York

April 17 CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections,National Reflectionsw National Speaker: Norman J. Ornstein,

Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

w Speakers at venues in each of thirty-five American cities and three cities in Greater China

April 22Roundtable Discussion with Alex Harney,Author, The China Price

April 29Jones Day China Lecture SeriesUnited States–China Aviation Cooperation:Discussion with James Filippatos, AssistantAdministrator for International AviationFederal Aviation Administration

May 2Roundtable Discussion with Dr. Yang Jiemin,President, Shanghai Institute for InternationalStudies

Featured speaker Fang Xinghai, Director General, Office ofFinancial Services, Shanghai Municipal Government, at acorporate members breakfast


May 6The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money,and Minds: Discussion with author David M.Lampton, Director, China Studies Program,George and Sadie Hyman Professor of ChinaStudies, School of Advanced InternationalStudies, Johns Hopkins University

May 7Lecture with Admiral Tomothy Keating,Commander, U.S. Pacific Command

May 12China’s Communist Party: Atrophy andAdaptation: Discussion with author DavidShambaugh, Director, China Policy Program,Professor, Elliott School of InternationalAffairs, George Washington University

May 13Jones Day China Lecture SeriesJudicial Reform in China: Discussion withJudge Clifford Wallace, Senior Judge, U.S.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

General John Fugh and Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy discussthe legacy of diplomat John Leighton Stuart


Rogers, ARPhoenix, AZBerkeley, CASan Diego, CASanta Barbara, CADenver, CONew Haven, CTNewark, DESarasota, FLVero Beach, FLAtlanta, GAHonolulu, HI

Chicago, ILFishers, INManhattan, KSNew Orleans, LABoston, MABaltimore, MDColby. MEAnn Arbor, MIMissoula, MTRaleigh, NCManchester, NHBuffalo, NYIthaca, NY

New York, NYTulsa, OKPhiladelphia, PAClemson, SCBrookings,SDMemphis, TNHouston, TXPullman, WASpokane, WALa Crosse, WITaipeiBeijingShanghai

In a year of presidential and Congres-sional elections, the role of China and its effecton the lives of Americans and U.S. foreignpolicy became a subject of national importance.On April 17, 2008, the National Committeeheld the second annual CHINA Town Hall:Local Connections, National Reflections, anationwide program on China conductedsimultaneously in thirty-five cities across theUnited States and subsequently in three citiesin Greater China.

The program featured a live webcastwith political analyst Norman J. Ornstein of theAmerican Enterprise Institute focusing onChina as an issue in the 2008 presidential andCongressional elections. Following this, in adiscussion with National Committee President

Stephen Orlins, Mr. Ornstein responded toquestions e-mailed from audience membersaround the country. After the national portionof the program, audiences at each of the thirty-five venues heard presentations from on-siteChina experts on subjects of interest to the localcommunity and had the opportunity to askquestions of the speakers.

CHINA Town Hall offers a forum for anational discussion of U.S.-China relations, andenables people across the country to have thequestions that matter to them answered byleading China specialists. The program wasmade possible with the cooperation of theWorld Affairs Council of America and localhost institutions, and the generous support ofthe Starr Foundation.

CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections

May 14Roundtable Discussion with Amy Gadsden,former Resident Country Director, ChinaPrograms, International Republican Institute

May 15American Chamber of Commerce Panelw James Zimmerman, Chairman

w John Watkins, Vice–Chairman

w Michael Barbalas, President

May 19Annual Members Meeting and Programw Nicholas Lardy, Senior Fellow,

Peterson Institute for International Economics

w David Malpass, President, Encima Global LLC

w Henny Sender, Senior Special Writer, The Wall Street Journal

August 25Roundtable Discussion with Dr. MignonneMan-Jung Chan, Senior Advisor, NationalSecurity Council, Taiwan

October 6Roundtable Discussion with David Barboza,China correspondent, The New York Times

October 9Multilateral Trading System: An Asia/PacificPerspective: Discussion with David Fung,Chairman, Li & Fung Group

November 7Roundtable Discussion with Sun Chao, PartySecretary, Minhang District, Shanghai

November 10Roundtable Discussion with Cui Liru andChina Institutes of Contemporary InternationalResearch Delegationw Cui Liru, President

w Feng Yujun, Director, Institute of Russian Studies

w Liu Bo, Deputy Director, Department of International Exchanges

w Yuan Peng, Director,

Institute of American Studiesw Zhang Zhixin, Assistant Professor,

Institute of American Studies

November 11Sino-Middle East Discussion with Pan Guang,Director, Shanghai Center for InternationalStudies and Institute of European & AsianStudies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences;Director, Shanghai Cooperation OrganizationStudies Center; Dean, Center of Jewish Studies;Vice Chairman, Chinese Society of Middle EastStudies

November 13Corporate Members Breakfast with FangXinghai, Director General, Office of FinancialServices, Shanghai Municipal Government

November 24An Insider’s View of China’s Reality: Lectureby Huang Mengfu, Vice Chairman, ChinesePeople’s Political Consultative ConferenceCambridge, MA

December 2Jones Day China Lecture SeriesU.S. Trade Enforcement Agenda with China

w Claire E. Reade, Chief Counsel for China Trade Enforcement, U.S. Office of the Trade Representative

December 9Once Upon a Time in Beijing: Five U.S.Ambassadors to Chinaw Winston Lord, 1985-89

w James R. Lilley, 1989-91

w J. Stapleton Roy, 1991-95

w James R. Sasser, 1996-99

w Joseph W. Prueher, 1999-2001

December 11About the Life of an American Educator,Diplomat and Doctor John Leighton Stuartw Major General John Fugh,

Chairman, Committee of 100w Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, Director,

Kissinger Institute for Chinese-U.S.Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars


The 2008 National Committee GalaDinner, held on October 24 in New York,honored NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan

Niederauer and U.S. Treasury Secretary HenryM. Paulson, Jr. for their work with China.

Secretary Paulson delivered thekeynote address to the audience of over 350guests, discussing the global economy,economic relations with China and the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED). Inthe midst of the financial crisis and two weeksbefore the presidential election, SecretaryPaulson’s address came at a time when globaleconomic issues were touching the lives ofevery American and U.S.-China relations were

in the spotlight; his remarks at the Gala werecovered by more than seventy journalists fromthirty-five media outlets and broadcast live onnational television networks.

Secretary Paulson joined theDepartment of the Treasury in July 2006, andserved as the leader of the U.S. delegation tothe Strategic Economic Dialogue from itsinception in 2006 until 2008. The SED initiatedwork on central policy issues includinginvestment, energy and environmental cooper-ation. Secretary Paulson traveled to Chinamore than sixty times over the course of hispublic service and private sector careers.

Duncan L. Niederauer joined NYSEEuronext in April 2007. Under his leadership,NYSE Euronext became the first non-Chineseexchange to open a representative office inBeijing and increased its number of listedcompanies from Greater China to fifty-seven,representing a market capitalization of morethan $1 trillion. Duncan Niederauer and NYSEEuronext were presented with two works byprominent Chinese-American artist Weihong,which will be displayed at the New York StockExchange.

The Gala is an important source ofsupport for the National Committe’s programs.The National Committee gratefully acknowl-edges the generosity of the companies andindividuals who made the Gala a success.

National Committee President Stephen Orlins, NYSEEuronext CEO and Director Duncan Niederauer, Secretary ofthe Treasury Henry M. Paulson, Jr. and National CommitteeChair Carla A. Hills

Former U.S. Amassador to China James Sasser andCheryl McQueen, Director of the Office of ChinaEconomic Area, U.S. Department of Commerce

National Committee President Stephen Orlins,National Committee Director Maurice R.Greenberg, PRC Ambassador to the United StatesZhou Wenzhong and Permanent Representative ofChina to the U.N., Ambassador Zhang Yesui


NATIONAL COMMITTEE GALA DINNER

The activities and programs of the National Committee are made possible through the support ofU.S. government agencies (in 2008 the Department of State, the Department of Education and theDepartment of Labor), foundations, business firms, members and friends. This support enables

the National Committee to offer services to its members and the public at large and to undertakeexchanges and special programs that further the advancement of knowledge and the strengthening ofrelationships on both sides of the Pacific.

The National Committee is grateful to those who made financial contributions during 2008. Weare also indebted to the many individuals who gave their time, creativity and in-kind assistance.Financial contributions for the year are listed below and on succeeding pages.

Business and Professional Contributors

Leaders ($25,000 and above)

The ACE GroupAEA Investors LLCAetos Capital, LLCAmerican International Group, Inc.Argent Financial GroupChevronCitiThe Coca-Cola CompanyHoneywellJ.P. MorganMotorola, Inc.NYSE EuronextTishman SpeyerWall Street EnglishWal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Benefactors ($10,000 - $24,999)

Alcatel-LucentAnheuser-Busch International, Inc.Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.Castle Harlan, Inc.Dorsey & Whitney LLPEdelmanFedEx CorporationGeneral Atlantic LLCGoldman, Sachs & Co.Hills & CompanyHong Kong Economic & Trade OfficeJohnson & JohnsonJones DayKPMG LLPLevcor International, Inc.Mattel, Inc.Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP

New York Community TrustPfizerPhilip Morris InternationalProskauer Rose LLPRussell InvestmentsSAP AmericaStandard CharteredTime Warner Inc.Two Sigma Investments, LLCTyco Electronics

Patrons ($5,000 - $9,999)

The Albright Group LLCScientific GamesShakleeThe Washington Center

Other Contributors (below $5,000)

Aetna

Foundations & Special Contributors

The Gerald Abell FoundationACE Charitable FoundationAsian Cultural CouncilThe Freeman FoundationGerstner Family FoundationThe Maurice R. & Corinne P.

Greenberg Foundation, Inc.Jones Day FoundationThe Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.The Rockefeller FoundationThe Staheli FoundationThe Starr FoundationU.S. Department of EducationU.S. Department of StateWoo’s Foundation

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FINANCES

Individual Contributors

Benefactor ($2,500 and above)

Keith W. AbellMadeleine K. AlbrightKathryn D. ChristophersonNelson G. DongRichard EdelmanWilliam FergusonCharles W. Freeman, IIILouis V. Gerstner, Jr.Evan G. GreenbergMaurice R. GreenbergHerbert J. HansellCarla A. HillsJohn L. HoldenVirginia KamskyMuhtar KentRobert A. LevinsonD. Bruce McMahanKen MillerWilliam R. RhodesDavid Rockefeller

Patron ($1,000 - $2,499)

Kay Boulware-MillerMary Brown BullockAngela ChenFrank ChingJerome A. CohenMichael GoettlThomas H. KeanNicholas R. LardyNatalie G. LichtensteinChristian MurckNicholas PlattJ. Stapleton RoyDenis Fred SimonPaul W. SpeltzDonald L. StaheliMatthew J. StoverRobert C. L. Timpson, Jr.William K. Zinke

Sponsor ($500 - $999)

Nicholas Beim

David R. GergenNorman Paul GivantJoel N. GlassmanThomas M. GorrieLee H. HamiltonStacy KenworthyGeraldine S. KunstadterDavid M. LamptonTerrill E. LautzHenry LevineStanley B. & Judith LubmanG. Eugene MartinJune MeiOwen D. Nee, Jr.Eugene A. NojekLois OksenbergCharles S. RobbHarriet P. RosensonRichard J. Schager, Jr.David L. ShambaughRoy C. SheldonCarl F. StoverAndrew R. ThompsonSavio W. TungCharles Pei WangSusan Roosevelt WeldRaymond H. &

Valerie Y. C. WongS. B. Woo

Member ($100 - $499)

Karen AndersonWilliam ArmbrusterPerry Bradford Badgley +Cathy BarbashNorton BelknapShenyu BelskySuzanne Reynolds BennisonThomas P. BernsteinPeggy BlumenthalP. Richard BohrDavid L. BorenDonald J. & Carol BorutJohn BrademasJeff BreedloveJ. Alan BrewsterWilliam Bronski +Joan Burress +Richard C. Bush, III

Janet A. CadyPeggy Castle +Amy P. CelicoMable ChanBeryl Y. ChangBrian T. ChangTa-kuang ChangJi ChenLincoln ChenSusan Anne ChenKaren ChristensenJoan Lebold CohenDalton ConleyAlison W. ConnerJill M. ConsidineMichael A. CraigLee CullumLawrence DaksDeborah DavisDavid B. H. DenoonLeigh-Wai DooDavid B. DormanWilliam F. DorrillRichard Elliott +John R. EvansNicholas W. FelsBarbara H. FranklinChristopher Fray +Alton FryeAshish A. GadnisGloria GarfinkelPeter F. GeithnerThomas B. GoldMaura M. Gouck +Sidney L. GreenblattLeslie C. GriffinA. Tom GrunfeldPatricia Haas ClevelandPaul T. HaenleRupert J. Hammond-ChambersRuth G. HinerfeldJamie P. HorsleyFranklin W. HounTrevor HouserJia Jun HuMatthew IslerKristina James +James W. JarrettDavid A. Jones, Jr.Roy D. Kamphausen


Robert A. KappVirginia KasselRobert L. KeatleyJames A. KellySusan H. Kelly +William KirbyJessie Koenig +Verna H. KuoDavid P. LambertChris R. LanzitHerbert LevinCheng LiKenneth LieberthalBenjamin L. LiebmanWinston & Bette Bao LordRichard W. LymanEdward S. MaLaurence J. C. MaYan MaAnanda MartinRoberta MartinJames MartinsenDavid & Patricia Maslowski +Richard H. MatzkeHelen McCabeMichael A. McDevittW. Clark McFadden IIAdrienne MedawarMichael M. MihmLeland R. MillerJames A. MillwardThomas H. MinerHugh H. MoKathryn MohrmanS. Alice MongDiane Yowell MontaltoSteven MorstadSatoru MuraseDouglas P. MurrayChristopher D.W. NelsonA. Kenneth NilssonDiane B. ObenchainKevin J. O'BrienSteven R. OkunDouglas H. PaalTodd Parker +Joanne Parkhouse +Gregg PasquarelliRoberta & Charles PaturickEdward J. PerkinsCiro & Marcia Perozo +

Jonathan D. PollackJohn PomfretJohn M. Regan +Edward J. M. RhoadsA. Douglas Robbins +Vinton L. RollinsMadelyn C. RossDorothy RostovRichard P. RushRichard Sanford +Harold H. SaundersRyan R.C. ScaliseStephen A. SchlaikjerBrent ScowcroftRichard SeldinJohn Shanks +Daniel A. SharpHarold K. Skramstad, Jr.Howard SmithJeffrey A. SmithRichard H. &

Anne G. K. SolomonMary Ellen Somerville +Carl J. SpectorLisa SpiveyEdward S. SteinfeldAdlai E. Stevenson IIILeslie StoneTerry Strombeck +Gerald StrykerRoger W. SullivanDonald J. SwanzDavid S. Tappan, Jr.Harry E.T. ThayerStephen C. ThomasAnn Connolly Tolkoff +Lorraine TolySeymour ToppingDavid M. TrebingDavid W. ViknerChristine Walderhaug +Tobias Watson +Leon J. WeilRebecca WeinerLawrence S. WeissKatherine WhitmanRichard L. WilliamsHarold WolchokLani L. WongRichard J. WoodWei-ling Wu +

William H. YuDonald S. ZagoriaEric & Andrea Zinn +

Other (below $100)

Papa Assane Ba +David M. BachmanJane BeckMargaret Bergeson +Robert P. BranniganPatricia Cesario +Emile C. ChiCarmen De Yoe +Bruce DicksonEdna E. EhrlichKaren Fox +John T. GoodhueLizabeth Joseph +Anthony J. KaneDonald W. KleinDavid M. Krueger +Karen Levin +Nia Mason +Scott Menscher +Ronald Sakolsky +Robert A. ScalapinoJanet Schoor +William M. SpeidelKellee S. TsaiJanet Wahnquist +

+ All or a portion of contri-bution designated for theU.S.-China Teachers ExchangeProgram



The 82nd Meeting of the Board of Directors was held in New York City on May 20, 2008.The 42nd Annual Members’ Meeting was held on May 19, 2008, also in New York.Members present (or by proxy) elected the Board Class of 2011; six individuals were

elected to the Class of 2010 and six to the Class of 2009.

Nine Directors left the Board through rotation or retirement as of May 19, 2008: MaryBrown Bullock, William Ferguson, Thomas M. Gorrie, Herbert J. Hansell, Harry Harding,Kenneth Lieberthal, Joseph W. Prueher, J. Stapleton Roy, and James R. Schlesinger.

Also at the 82nd session, Directors elected the following officers of the Committee:Carla A. Hills, chair; Maurice R. Greenberg, Lee H. Hamilton, Thomas H. Kean, Nicholas R.Lardy, William R. Rhodes, and James R. Sasser, vice chairmen; Keith W. Abell, treasurer; TerrillE. Lautz, secretary, and Stephen A. Orlins, president.

At large Board Members Dennis C. Blair, Jerome A Cohen, Barbara H. Franklin, PeterF. Geithner, David M. Lampton, Robert A. Levinson, Cheng Li, D. Bruce McMahan, Robert S.McNamara and John L. Thornton joined the officers to comprise the Executive Committee.

Keith W. Abell was appointed chairman of the Audit & Budget Committee; Carla A.Hills, chair of the Compensation Committee; Edward T. Cloonan and D. Bruce McMahan, co-chairmen of the Development Committee; David M. Lampton, chairman of the ManagementCommittee; Kathryn D. Christopherson and Terrill E. Lautz, co-chairmen of the NominatingCommittee; and Mary Brown Bullock and Peter F. Geithner, co-chairmen of the ProgramCommittee.

The 66th Meeting of the Executive Committee was held in Washington, D.C. onNovember 3, 2008. At that time, Thomas J. Christensen, Thomas Fingar, David Shambaugh,and Clark T. Randt were appointed Directors.

Class of 2011 Class of 2010 Class of 2009

Madeleine Albright Geraldine S. Kunstadter Kathryn D. Christopherson Nelson G. DongLorne W. Craner James A. Leach Clifford Holland Richard EdelmanMichael L. Ducker Cheng Li Richard C. Levin Martin S. FeldsteinCharles W. Freeman, III David R. Malpass Ken Miller Thomas H. KeanLouis V. Gertsner, Jr. Douglas H. Paal Edward Steinfeld Nicholas R. LardyCarla A. Hills James R. Sasser Kellee Tsai Charles RobbDavid A. Jones, Jr. William R. RhodesMuhtar Kent I. Peter WolffHenry A. Kissinger

GOVERNANCE & MEMBERSHIP

December 31, 2008$ 913,741 5,655,045

354,602343,375134,841

--5,692

57,599

$ 7,464,895

$ 142,614 880 143,494

3,879,111 1,062,348

4,941,459

2,379,942 7,321,401

$ 7,464,895

Cash and cash equivalentsInvestmentsGrants and contributions receivable, netOther receivablesProgram advances, exchanges and other assetsGrants and Contributions Receivable (long term portion)Security depositsProperty and equipment

TOTAL ASSETS

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Accounts payable and accrued expensesDeferred rent TOTAL LIABILITIES

NET ASSETS

UnrestrictedUndesignatedBoard-designated

Temporarily restrictedTOTAL NET ASSETS

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

SUPPORT AND REVENUE: U.S. Government grantsContributionsSpecial events (net)Investment income and otherNet assets released from restrictionsTOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE

EXPENSES:Program servicesManagement and administrationFund-raisingTOTAL EXPENSES

Change in net assetsNet assets beginning of year

Net assets end of year

TemporarilyRestricted

$ 348,625990,052

----

(2,716,929) (1,378,252)

----

-- --

(1,378,252) $ 3,758,194

$ 2,379,942

Unrestricted

$ -- 119,296709,371566,618

2,716,9294,112,214

2,757,552822,349

149,669 3,729,570

382,644 $ 4,558,815

$ 4,941,459

December 31, 2008Total

$ 348,6251,109,348

709,371566,618

--2,733,962

2,757,552822,349

149,669 3,729,570

(995,608) $ 8,317,009

$ 7,321,401

Condensed Statement of Activities for Year Ended December 31, 2008

Condensed Statement of Financial Position January 1 – December 31, 2008


STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

December 31, 2007$ 1,072,340

5,595,901250,079370,382133,036

1,000,0005,692

67,516

$ 8,494,946

$ 174,418 3,519 177,937

3,217,965 1,340,850

4,558,815

3,758,194 8,317,009

$ 8,494,946

December 31, 2008Total

$ 765,818950,500906,581262,992

--2,885,891

2,882,892771,368

229,010 3,883,270

(997,379) $ 9,314,388

$ 8,317,009


STAFF 2008

PRESIDENTStephen A. Orlins

VICE PRESIDENTJan Carol Berris

VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADMINISTRATIONRosalind Daly

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION PROGRAMSMargot E. Landman

SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR CORPORATE &PUBLIC PROGRAMSAnne Phelan

DIRECTOR, TRANSNATIONAL INITIATIVESLing Li

DIRECTOR, LEADERSHIP INITIATIVESJonathan G. Lowet

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENTDiana B. Roggemann

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONSJoseph J. Weed

PROGRAM OFFICERSAnna BautistaKatherine D. ForshayDaniel Murphy

PROGRAM ASSISTANTSJenna CrouchSara Gavryck-Ji

PROGRAM AND TRAVEL ASSISTANTNick McBurney

ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGERDaya Martin

OFFICE MANAGER Adam SigalCatherine Tafur

ASSISTANT CONTROLLERPatricia M. Gilani

INTERNSRong FuNathan GuerinFrances Wei Wei HsingSungtae KimQing Miao

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