Hearing on China’s Military Modernization and U.S. Export Controls
March 15-17, 2006
March 16 – Room 385 Russell Senate Office Building
Delaware & Constitution Avenues, NE
March 17 – Room 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building
1 st Street & Constitution Avenue, NE
Hearing Cochairs: Commissioners Carolyn Bartholomew, Thomas Donnelly, William Reinsch and Fred Thompson
Thursday, March 16 *Room 385 Russell Senate Office Building*
CHINA ’S MILITARY MODERNIZATION
8:30 am – 9:30 am Panel I: Congressional Perspectives
- Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI)
- Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)
- Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Congressman Donald Manzullo (R-IL)
- Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
9:30 am – 10:30 am Panel II: Administration Perspectives
- Hon. Peter Rodman, Asst. Secretary of Defense International for Security Affairs, Department of Defense
- Mr. James Thomas, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Resources and Plans, Department of Defense
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Panel III: Chinese Military Modernization: Informationization, Conventional Missiles, and China’s Air and Naval Forces
- Mr. Mark Stokes, Independent Consultant
- Mr. Cortez Cooper, Director, East Asia Studies, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
- Dr. Jacqueline Newmyer, Senior Analyst, The Long-Term Strategy Project, Harvard University
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Panel IV: The Modernization of China’s Defense Industries
- Dr. Roger Cliff, Senior Analyst, The RAND Corporation
- Dr. Adam Segal, Senior Fellow in China Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
- Mr. Richard Bitzinger, Associate Professor, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Panel V: Foreign Military Acquisitions and Military-Technical Cooperation
- Mr. Richard Fisher, Vice President, International Assessment and Strategy Center
- Dr. Bernard Cole, Professor International History, National Defense University
Friday March 17 Room 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building*
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL REGIMES
9:00 am Panel VI: Congressional Perspectives
- Senator Michael Enzi (R-WY)
9:05 am – 10:15 am Panel VII: Administration Perspectives: Efficacy of U.S. Export Control Regimes
- Mr. Frank Record, Principal Deputy Asst. Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation
- Hon. Beth McCormick, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Technology Security Policy and Counter Proliferation
- The Honorable Darryl Jackson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement
10:30 am – Noon Panel VIII: Private Sector Views on U.S. Export Control Regimes
- Mr. William Hawkins, Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, U.S. Business and Industry Council
- Mr. Edmund Rice, President, Coalition for Employment Through Exports, Inc.
- Mr. Edward Markey, President, NABCO, Inc.
- Dr. Takis Tridimas, Law Professor, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University
- Mr. Chris Hankin, testifying as a former government official
- Mr. John Tkacik, Senior Research Fellow, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation