*FINAL AGENDA*
Hearing on Access to Information in the People’s Republic of China
July 31, 2007
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 385
Deleware and Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20510
Hearing Co-chairs: Chairman Bartholomew, Commissioner Houston
Tuesday, July 31
Panel I: Congressional Perspectives
9:00 am – 9:30 am Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
9:30 am – 9:45 am Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI)
12:45 pm – 1:00 pm Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA)
Congressman Tom Harkin (D-IA) (Written Statement)
9:45 am – 11:00 am Panel II: Administration Perspectives
- Broadcasting Board of Governors
- Jay Henderson, Director, East Asia & Pacific Division, VOA, Washington, DC
- Dan Southerland, VP of Programming and Executive Editor, RFA, Washington, DC
11:00 am – 11:15 pm Break
11:15 am – 12:45 pm Panel III: The State of China’s Information Controls
- Dr. Ashley Esarey, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
- Dr. Xiao Qiang, Director, China Internet Project, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Panel IV: Perception Management - Who Knows What in the PRC?
- Ms. He Qinglian, Senior Research Scholar, Human Rights in China, New York, NY
- Dr. Barrett McCormick, Professor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Panel V: The Impact of PRC Information Controls on the United States
- Mr. Drew Thompson, Director of China Studies and Starr Senior Fellow, Nixon Center, Washington, DC
- Dr. Scott Gottlieb, MD, Resident Fellow, AEI, Washington, DC
- Dr. Oded Shenkar, Professor, Fisher School of Management, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (Written Statement)
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