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