October 18, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. EDT
CHINA TOWN
HALL
Local Connections, National Reflections
Live webcast with
A live webcast featuring
Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.
U.S. Ambassador to China
Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.
U.S. Ambassador to China
moderated by Stephen A. Orlins, President
National Committee on United States-China Relations
and 50 local programs addressing topics of
interest to each community
National Reflections Moderator
Understanding the relationship between the United
States and China is the most important tool for the creation
of a U.S. policy that serves our country’s interests. Climate
change, energy and resource consumption, economics and
trade, employment, public health, nuclear arms proliferation,
security in the Middle East and terrorism are issues
Americans face every day that require close cooperation with
China if they are to be resolved satisfactorily. Because the
landscape is constantly changing, American understanding
of China and of Sino-American relations must remain
current. CHINA Town Hall gives Americans throughout the
United States an opportunity to learn about and reflect on
these and other critical issues with leading experts.
The National Committee is pleased to present this
program, combining a webcast interview from Beijing of U.S.
Ambassador to China Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., with on-site
presentations by China specialists addressing topics of
particular interest to the local community.
We thank Ambassador Huntsman, our local partners
and speakers and the Starr Foundation for making the
program possible.
Stephen A. Orlins
President
National Committee on
United States-China Relations
National Reflections Speaker
Jon Huntsman became United States
Ambassador to China in August 2009 after
having served as governor of Utah since 2004.
Ambassador Huntsman’s public
service career began as a White House staff
assistant to President Ronald Reagan and has
included appointments as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Asia, U.S.
Ambassador to Singapore and Deputy U.S.
Trade Representative. While at USTR,
Ambassador Huntsman negotiated dozens
of free trade agreements and trade and
investment framework agreements and
brokered other bi-lateral and multi-lateral
trade agreements for the United States with
China, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, India,
Vietnam, West Africa, South Africa, and other
Asian and African nations. He played a crit-
ical role in launching global trade
negotiations in Doha, Qatar, in November
2001, guiding the simultaneous accession of
China and Taiwan into the World Trade
Organization.
He is a founding director of the
Pacific Council on International Policy and
has served on various boards such as the
Brookings Institution Asia Policy Board, the
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Pacific Forum, the Asia Society and the
National Bureau of Asian Research.
During his tenure as Governor, Utah
was recognized by many organizations for its
dynamism, business climate and quality of
life. Known nationally for his leadership,
Ambassador Huntsman served as chairman of
the Western Governors Association and on
the Executive Committee of the National
Governors Association.
Jon Huntsman is a graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania and has four
honorary doctorate degrees.
Local Connections Partners and Speakers
A day of programming on China in cities
across the United States and in Greater China
Argosy University (Sarasota, FL)
Amy Celico, Albright Stonebridge Group
Asia Institute, University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
Jennifer Turner, China Environment Forum
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Center for China Studies, Clemson University (South Carolina)
Tom Duncan, Positec USA
Center for China-U.S. Cooperation, University of Denver
David Gries, China Vitae
Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas (Lawrence)
Daniel Lynch, University of Southern California
Columbia University, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
(New York, NY)
Xiao Qiang, China Digital Times and Xiaobo Lü and
Guobin Yang, Barnard College
Concordia College (Moorhead, MN)
Duncan McCampbell, McCampbell Global, LLC
Confucius Insitute, Community College of Denver
Regina Abrami, Harvard Business School
Confucius Institute, State University of New York at Buffalo
Samuel Fleming, Jessie Poon and Kristin Stapleton
State University of New York at Buffalo
Confucius Institute, University of Oklahoma—Tulsa
Johann Tse, Aquarian Capital, LLC
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Christina Larson, New America Foundation
Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University
(New Haven, CT)
Jessica Weiss, Pierre Landry, Jun Saito, Yasuhiro Matsuda
Yale University
Roy Kamphausen, The National Bureau of Asian Research
Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations
Randall Schriver, Armitage International
Detroit Council for World Affairs
Lyle Goldstein, U.S. Naval War College
Georgia State University, World Affairs Council of Atlanta
Ira Kasoff, APCO Worldwide
Fei-Ling Wang, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
Georgia Institute of Technology
Institute for Chinese Studies, Ohio State University (Columbus)
Cathy Barbash, Barbash Arts Consulting Services
Kansas State University (Manhattan)
Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego
La Crosse-Luoyang Friendship Association (Wisconsin)
Dennis Nguyen, New Asia Partners
Madison Committee on Foreign Relations (Wisconsin)
Derek Vollmer, National Academies
Maureen & Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana
(Missoula)
Dimon Liu
Museum of Chinese in America (New York, NY)
Jonathan Lewis, Clean Air Task Force
Northwest China Council (Portland, OR)
Darryl Johnson, U.S. Ambassador, Retired
Jacqueline Fu, K&L Gates
Pacific and Asian Affairs Council (Honolulu, HI)
Michael McCune, TransPacific Brands
Peoria Area World Affairs Council (Illinois)
Michael Bryant, Bradley University
Rochester Community and Technical College (Minnesota)
Wang Liping, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Saint Edward’s School (Vero Beach, FL)
Keith Abell, Sungate Properties
Santa Barbara Committee on Foreign Relations
Paul Haenle, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Seton Hall University School of Law (Newark, NJ)
South Dakota Council on World Affairs (Brookings)
C. Y. Wang, South Dakota State University
Shanzhong Duan, South Dakota State University
Reece Kurtenbach, Daktronics
Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center (Abingdon)
Steve Adkins, Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe, LLP
Suffolk University (Boston, MA)
Douglas Spelman, Kissinger Institute on China and the United
States at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars
University of Arkansas at Fort Smith
Robert Daly, Maryland China Initiative at the
University of Maryland
University of Colorado at Boulder
Sidney Rittenberg, Rittenberg Associates
University of Pennsylvania Law School
David M. Lampton, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy (Salt Late City)
Joe Borich, Washington State China Relations Council
Vermont Council on World Affairs, Southern Vermont College
(Bennington)
Thomas Redden, Southern Vermont College
Vermont Council on World Affairs, University of Vermont
(Burlington)
Juefei Wang, Freeman Foundation
Washington State China Relations Council (Seattle)
Nelson Dong, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP
Washington State China Relations Council
Washington State University (Pullman)
Bruce Gilley, Portland State University
World Affairs Council of Arizona (Scottsdale)
Melinda Herrold-Menzies, Pitzer College
World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley
(Poughkeepsie, NY)
Daniel Rosen, Rhodium Group
World Affairs Council of New Hampshire (Durham)
Kathleen Walsh, U.S. Naval War College
World Affairs Council of New Orleans
Henry Levine, Albright Stonebridge Group
World Affairs Council of South Texas (Corpus Christi)
Anna Brettell, Congressional-Executive Commission on China
World Trade Center Delaware (Newark)
John Frisbie, US-China Business Council
World Trade Center San Diego
Robert Kapp, Robert A. Kapp & Associates
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Friends of the National Committee (Beijing)
American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei/Taiwan
Broadcasting Company
Alexander Huang, Tamkang University
Shanghai Community International School
Kenneth Jarrett, APCO Worldwide
China Europe International Business School (Shanghai)
Further information on CHINA Town Hall may be found at: www.ncuscr.org/cth.
An archived version of Ambassador Huntsman’s remarks will be available on the
web page following the program.
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