Appendix 3 - Public Hearings and Technical Briefings of the Commission

Full transcripts and written testimonies are available elsewhere on this site.

May 9, 2001: A Technical Briefing on “Business, Trade and Economic Issues,” Washington, D.C.

Commissioners present: C. Richard D’Amato, Chairman, George Becker, Stephen D. Bryen, June Teufel Dreyer, Kenneth Lewis, James R. Lilley, Patrick A. Mulloy, William A. Reinsch, Roger W. Robinson, Jr., Arthur Waldron, Michael R. Wessel.

Witnesses: Alan Tonelson, U.S. Business & Industry Council; Peter Bottelier, John F. Kennedy School of Government; Greg Mastel, U.S. Senate Finance Committee; Ernest H. Preeg, Manufacturers Alliance; Harry Wu, Laogai Research Foundation; Nicholas Lardy, the Brookings Institution; Kate Brofenbrenner, Cornell University.

June 14, 2001: Public Hearing on “U.S.-China Current Trade and Investment Policies and Their Impact on the U.S. Economy,” Washington, D.C.

Commissioners present: C. Richard D’Amato, Chairman, Michael A. Ledeen, Vice Chairman, George Becker, Stephen D. Bryen, June Teufel Dreyer, Kenneth Lewis, James R. Lilley (Hearing Co-Chair), Patrick A. Mulloy (Hearing Co-Chair), William A. Reinsch, Roger W. Robinson, Jr., Michael R. Wessel.

Statements by Senators: Robert C. Byrd, U.S. Senator from West Virginia; Fred Thompson, U.S. Senator from Tennessee; Paul Sarbanes, U.S. Senator from Maryland; Chuck Hagel, U.S. Senator from Nebraska.

Witnesses: Richard L. Trumka, AFL-CIO; Gary Benanav, New York Life International; Robert A. Kapp, U.S.-China Business Council; Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, The Woodrow Wilson Center and former U.S. Trade Representative; Admiral Joseph W. Prueher, former Ambassador to China; William Wolman, Business Week Magazine; Anne Colomosca, New York Financial Journalist; Kevin L. Kearns, U.S. Business and Industry Council; Jerome A. Cohen, New York University, Council of Foreign Relations and Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Ruppert J. Hammond-Chambers, U.S.-ROC (Taiwan) Business Council.

August 2, 2001: Public Hearing on “Bilateral Trade Policies and Issues between the United States and China,” Washington, D.C.

Commissioners present: C. Richard D’Amato, Chairman (and Hearing Co-Chair), Michael A. Ledeen, Vice Chairman, George Becker (Hearing Co-Chair), Stephen D. Bryen, June Teufel Dreyer, Kenneth Lewis, James R. Lilley, Patrick A. Mulloy, William A. Reinsch, Roger W. Robinson, Jr., Michael R. Wessel.

Witnesses: Thomas J. Usher, USX Corporation and United States Steel LLC; Leo W. Gerard, United Steelworkers of America; Peter Davidson, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Charles W. Winwood, U.S. Customs Service; Gordon G. Chang, author and attorney; Alicia Zhao; Robert Thayer, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers; John W. Douglass, Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc.; Steve Beckman, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural, Implement Workers of America; Chuck Lambert, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association; Dwain Ford, American Soybean Association; Henry Jo Von Tungeln, U.S. Wheat Associates and the Wheat Export Trade Education Committee; Robbin S. Johnson, Cargill, Inc.; Edward Fire, International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Furniture Workers Division of the Communications Workers of America; Dave McCurdy, Electronic Industries Alliance; Merritt Todd Cooke, Jr., American Institute in Taiwan.

August 3, 2001: Public Hearing on “Security Issues: Strategic Perceptions,” Washington, D.C.

Commissioners present: C. Richard D’Amato, Chairman, Michael A. Ledeen, Vice Chairman (and Hearing Co-Chair), George Becker, Stephen D. Bryen, June Teufel Dreyer, Kenneth Lewis (Hearing Co-Chair), James R. Lilley, Patrick A. Mulloy, William A. Reinsch, Roger W. Robinson, Jr., Michael R. Wessel.

Witnesses: Michael Pillsbury, National Defense University; Timothy Thomas, Foreign Military Studies Office, U.S. Army; Richard Fisher, Jamestown Foundation; Bates Gill, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, Brookings Institution; Larry Wortzel, Asia Studies Center, Heritage Foundation.

October 12, 2001: A briefing on “Proliferation Issues,” Washington, D.C.

Commissioners present: C. Richard D’Amato, Chairman (and Hearing Co-Chair), George Becker, Stephen D. Bryen (Hearing Co-Chair) June Teufel Dreyer, Kenneth Lewis, Patrick A. Mulloy, William A. Reinsch, Roger W. Robinson, Jr., Arthur Waldron, Michael R. Wessel.

Witnesses: Kenneth W. Allen, Center for Naval Analyses; Rodney W. Jones, Policy Architects International; Kenneth R. Timmerman, author; Jing-Dong Yuan, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Gary Milhollin, University of Wisconsin Law School and Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control; RADM (Ret.) Michael McDevitt, Center for Strategic Studies, Center for Naval Analyses Corporation.

December 6, 2001: Public Hearing on “China’s Capital Requirements and U. S. Capital Markets,” Washington, D.C.

Commissioners present: C. Richard D’Amato, Chairman, Michael A. Ledeen, Vice Chairman, George Becker, Stephen D. Bryen, June Teufel Dreyer, Kenneth Lewis, Patrick A. Mulloy, William A. Reinsch, Roger W. Robinson, Jr. (Hearing Co-Chair), Michael R. Wessel (Hearing Co-Chair).

Opening Remarks: Fred Thompson, United States Senator from Tennessee

Witnesses: Warren Bailey, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University; Nicholas Lardy, Brookings Institution; Thomas J. Byrne, Moody’s Investors Service; Stephen Harner, S.M. Harner and Co. (Shanghai); Paul S. Wolansky, New China Management Corp.; Robert D. Hormats, Goldman Sachs (International); Marc E. Lackritz, Securities Industry Association; James A. Dorn, CATO Institute; William Patterson, AFL-CIO; Michael Flaherman, California Public Employees’ Retirement System; Rep. Steven R. Nickol, Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

December 7, 2001: Public Hearing on “Chinese Budget Issues and Role of PLA in the Economy,” Washington, D.C.

Commissioners present: C. Richard D’Amato, Chairman (and Hearing Co-Chair), George Becker, Stephen D. Bryen, June Teufel Dreyer (Hearing Co-Chair), Kenneth Lewis, Patrick A. Mulloy, William A. Reinsch, Arthur Waldron, Michael R. Wessel, Larry M. Wortzel.

Witnesses: Charles Wolf Jr., Rand Corp.; Richard N. Cooper, Harvard University; Barry B. Anderson, Congressional Budget Office; Cheng Xiaonong, Princeton University; James Mulvenon, Rand Corporation, Center for Asia-Pacific Policy; David Shambaugh, The George Washington University; John Frankenstein, Columbia University and the Atlantic Council of the United States; Col. John Corbett (retired), Centra Technology, Inc.; Andrew Marble, Institute of International Relations/Taiwan; Dennis Blasko, U.S. Army, (retired); Bernard Cole, National War College; Luke Colton, Independent Defense Consultant.

January 17, 2002: Public Hearing on “Export Controls and China,” Washington, D.C.

Commissioners present: C. Richard D’Amato, Chairman, Michael A. Ledeen, Vice Chairman, George Becker, Stephen D. Bryen (Hearing Co-Chair), June Teufel Dreyer, Kenneth Lewis, Patrick A. Mulloy, William A. Reinsch (Hearing Co-Chair), Roger W. Robinson, Jr., Michael R. Wessel.

Witnesses: Lisa Bronson, U.S. Department of Defense; James J. Jochum, U.S. Department of Commerce; Vann H. Van Diepen, U.S. Department of State; Michael Garcia, U.S. Department of Commerce; Richard Mercier, Investigative Programs, U.S. Customs Service; Donald Hicks, Hicks and Associates; James Lewis, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Daryl Hatano, Semiconductor Industry Association; Chip Storie, Cincinnati Machines on behalf of the Association for Manufacturing Technology; Kathleen A. Walsh, Henry L. Stimson Center; Gary Milhollin, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control; Paul Godwin, National War College.

January 18, 2002: Public Hearing on “WTO Compliance and Sectoral Issues,” Washington, D.C.

Commissioners present: C. Richard D’Amato, Chairman (and Hearing Co-Chair), Michael A. Ledeen, Vice Chairman, George Becker, Stephen D. Bryen, June Teufel Dreyer, Kenneth Lewis, Patrick A. Mulloy (Hearing Co-Chair), William A. Reinsch, Roger W. Robinson, Jr., Arthur Waldron, Michael R. Wessel.

Witnesses: Jeffery Bader, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; William H. Lash, III, U.S. Department of Commerce; Shaun Donnelly, U.S. Department of State; Patricia R. Sheikh, Foreign Agricultural Service, United States Department of Agriculture; Donald C. Clarke, University of Washington Law School; Margaret M. Pearson, University of Maryland, College Park; Jeffrey L. Fiedler, AFL-CIO; Terence P. Stewart, law offices of Stewart and Stewart; Daniel J. Brody, US Information Technology Office, Beijing; William H. Overholt, Harvard University Asia Center; David Hale, Zurich Financial Services; Andrew W. Shoyer, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy; Larry Spiegel, Appledown Films, Inc.; Bonnie J.K. Richardson, Motion Picture Association of America; Eric H. Smith, International Intellectual Property Alliance; David C. Quam, International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition; Roger T. Uren, Phoenix Satellite Television Limited (Hong Kong); Lyric M. Hughes, China Online Inc.; Hurst Lin, SINA.com; Stephen Hsu, Safeweb, Inc.; Laura B. Sherman, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.