AGENDA
Hearing on "China and the Middle East"
Friday, April 19, 2024
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 215, and Webex
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Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioner Aaron Friedberg [Opening Statement] and Commissioner Jonathan Stivers [Opening Statement]
9:30 AM – 9:40 AM: Co-Chairs' Opening Remarks
9:40 AM – 11:10 AM: Panel I: Energy, Investment, and Economic Interests
- Erica Downs, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA [Testimony]
- Mohammed Soliman, Director of the Strategic Technologies and Cyber Security Program, Middle East Institute [Testimony]
- Karen Young, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA [Testimony]
11:10 AM – 11:20 AM: Break
11:20 AM – 12:50 PM: Panel II: China’s Diplomatic Engagement with the Middle East Bolsters Efforts to Shape a New World Order
- Jonathan Fulton, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council [Testimony]
- Jon Alterman, Senior Vice President, Center for Strategic and International Studies [Testimony]
- Dawn Murphy, Associate Professor, National Defense University [Testimony]
12:50 PM – 1:50 PM: Lunch Break
1:50 PM – 3:20 PM: Panel III: China’s Security Interests and Activities in the Middle East
- Grant Rumley, Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy [Testimony]
- Maria Papageorgiou, Lecturer, University of Exeter [Testimony]
- Alessandro Arduino, Affiliate Lecturer, King’s College London [Testimony]
3:20 PM – 3:25 PM: Closing Remarks
3:25 PM: Adjourn