Hearing on “China’s Media and Information Controls – The Impact in China and the United States”
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Room 562 Dirksen Senate Office Building
First Street and Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20510
Hearing Agenda: (PDF)
PARTICIPANTS’ BIOS and TESTIMONIES: (Click on a name to read Participants Bio's in an HTML page. View a Testimony in HTML or PDF view by clicking the associated link with each individual. Some Participants may not have a Bio or Written Testimony. )
Hearing Co-Chairs: Chairman Carolyn Bartholomew and Commissioner Daniel Blumenthal
Commissioners’ Opening Statements
- Opening Statement of Chairman Carolyn Bartholomew (HTML)(PDF)
- Opening Statement of Commissioner Daniel Blumenthal (HTML)(PDF)
Panel I: The Status of China’s Commitments to Greater Media Reforms
- Mr. Phelim Kine, Asia Researcher, Human Rights Watch, Hong Kong (HTML)(PDF)
- Ms. Madeline Earp, Asia Research Associate, the Committee to Protect Journalists, New York, NY (HTML)(PDF)
Panel II: Coverage of Sensitive News Stories in Chinese News Media: Charter ‘08 and the Global Financial Crisis
- Dr. Victor Shih, Assistant Professor of Politics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- Dr. Perry Link, Professor of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, University of California, Riverside, CA (HTML)(PDF)
- Mr. Lawrence Liu, Senior Counsel, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Washington, DC (HTML)(PDF)
Panel III: Information Technology and Freedom of Expression in China
- Mr. Robert Guerra, Project Director for Internet Freedom, Freedom House, Washington, DC (HTML)(PDF)
- Dr. Robert Faris, Research Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (HTML)(PDF)