AGENDA
Hearing on "China's Belt and Road Initiative: Five Years Later"
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Dirksen Senate Office Building 419
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9:45 AM – 9:50 AM: Opening Remarks: Commissioner Dennis Shea and Commissioner Katherine Tobin, PhD
9:50 AM – 11:20 AM: Panel I: Mercantilism with Chinese Characteristics: Creating Markets and Cultivating Influence
- Nadége Rolland, Senior Fellow for Political and Security Affairs, National Bureau of Asian Research (Testimony)
- Jonathan Hillman, Fellow and Director, Reconnecting Asia Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Testimony)
- Randal Phillips, Managing Partner, Mintz Group (Testimony)
11:20 AM – 11:30 AM: Break
11:10 AM – 1:00 PM: Panel II: The Geostrategic and Military Drivers and Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative
- Ely Ratner, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign Relations (Testimony)
- Joel Wuthnow, Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs, National Defense University (Testimony)
- Daniel Kliman, Senior Fellow, Asia-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security (Testimony)
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Lunch Break
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Panel III: Regional Reactions and Competing Visions
- Andrew Small, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States (Testimony)
- Joshua Eisenman, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin (Testimony)
- Tobias Harris, Economy, Trade, and Business Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA (Testimony)
3:30 PM: Adjourn
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