Hearing on

China’s Growth as a Regional Economic Power: Impacts and Implications

Thursday, December 4, 2003

SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, DC

Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioners Carolyn Bartholomew and June Teufel Dreyer

10:00 – 11:30 am Panel I: Overview: China’s Regional Strategy

Wing Thye Woo, PhD, Professor of Economics, UC Davis

Bates Gill, PhD, Freeman Chair, CSIS

John J. Tkacik, Jr., Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

11:30 – 1:00 pm Panel II: Economic Dimensions of Cross-Strait Relations

Peter C.Y. Chow, PhD, Professor, City University of New York

Merritt Todd Cooke, Managing Director, GC3 Strategy Inc.

1:00 – 2:00 Commissioners’ Lunch – Closed

2:00 – 3:30 pm Panel III: China and Northeast Asia

Edward J. Lincoln, PhD, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

L. Gordon Flake, Executive Dir., Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs

Naoko Munakata, Sigur Center, George Washington University

3:30 – 5:00 pm Panel IV: Relations on China’s Borders

Southeast Asia:

Wang Gungwu, PhD, East Asian Institute, National University Singapore

David Steinberg, PhD, Dir. Asian Studies, Georgetown University

Central Asia/Russia:

Martha Blaxall, PhD, School of Advanced International Studies

South Asia:

Rollie Lal, PhD, Political Scientist, RAND Corporation