Hearing on China’s State Control Mechanisms and Methods

  April 14, 2005

Room 385, Russell Senate Office Building

Delaware and Constitution Avenues, NE

Washington, DC 20510

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Hearing Cochairs:  Commissioners June Teufel Dreyer and William Reinsch

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8:30–9:00 am     Congressional Perspectives

- Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN)

- Congressman David Wu (D-OR)

9:00–9:30 am     Administration Views

- Ms. Susan O’Sullivan, Senior Advisor, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Department of State

9:30–10:30 am   Open Net Initiative (ONI) Report Release – “Internet Filtering in China in 2004-2005”

- Mr. John Palfrey, Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

- Mr. Derek Bambauer, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School

- Mr. Nart Villeneuve, Director, Technical Research, Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

10:30–12:00 pm Panel I: Political Developments

- Dr. JIAO Guobiao, former Professor, College of Journalism and Communications, Beijing University

- Dr. Perry Link, Professor, East Asian Studies, Princeton University

- Dr. Richard Baum, Director, Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles                         

12:00–1:00 pm   Lunch

1:00–2:30 pm     Panel II: The State of the Chinese Media and Internet in China

- Dr. James Mulvenon, Deputy Director, Defense Group Inc., Falls Church, VA

 - Mr. XIAO Qiang, Director, China Internet Project, University of California at Berkeley

 - Mr. Ken Berman, Manager, Anti-Censorship Program, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Washington, D.C.

 - Mr. Frank Smyth, Journalist Security Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists, Washington, D.C.

2:30–3:30 pm      Panel III: Chinese Nationalism and Its Implications for US-China Relations

 - Dr. Edward Friedman, Hawkins Chair Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-

      Madison

-  Dr. YU Maochun, Associate Professor of East Asia and Military History, U.S. Naval Academy,

      Annapolis

3:30–5:00 pm      Panel IV: Socio-Economic Unrest and State Control Mechanisms

 - Dr. Murray Scot Tanner, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA

 - Ms. HE Qinglian, Scholar in Residence, Human Rights in China, New York

 - Mr. LI Qiang, Executive Director, China Labor Watch, New York