Hearing: China's Active Defense Strategy and its Regional Impact

January 27, 2011

[PRESS RELEASE]

Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioners Carolyn Bartholomew and Larry M. Wortzel

AGENDA

8:50 am – 9:00 am         Hearing Co-Chairs Opening Statements

• Chairman William A. Reinsch [Remarks]
• Commissioner Carolyn Bartholomew [Remarks]
• Commissioner Larry M. Wortzel [Remarks]

9:00 am – 9:30 am         Panel I: Congressional Perspectives

• Rep. Robert J. Wittman (R-VA) [Testimony]
• Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) [Testimony]

9:40 am – 11:00 am       Panel II: China’s Active Defense and Anti-Access Strategy

• Dr. Roger Cliff, Senior Political Scientist, The RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA [Testimony]
• Oriana Skylar Mastro, Doctoral Candidate, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ [Testimony]
• Cortez Cooper, Senior International Policy Analyst, The RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA [Testimony]

11:10 am – 12:30 am     Panel III: China’s Non-traditional Access Control Strategies

• Lt Gen (Ret.) David A. Deptula,  President and CEO, The Deptula Group, LLC, Oakton, VA [Testimony]
• Dr. Martin C. Libicki, Senior Management Scientist, The RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA [Testimony]
• Dean Cheng, Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C. [Testimony]

12:30 pm – 1:15 pm    Lunch Break

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm    Panel IV: Implications for East Asia

• Dr. Balbina Hwang, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. [Testimony]
• Jim Thomas, Vice President for Studies, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Washington, D.C. [Testimony]
• CAPT Stacy Pedrozo, Military Fellow (U.S. Navy), Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY [Testimony]