Thursday, April 4, 2013
Room G-50 Dirksen Senate Office Building
First Street and Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioner Peter Brookes and Commissioner Katherine C. Tobin
9:00a – 9:15a: Opening Remarks
- Katherine C. Tobin (Remarks)
9:15a – 10:45a: Panel I: China’s Strategic Thinking and Regional Security
- Rear Admiral Michael McDevitt (Ret.), Senior Fellow, Strategic Studies, CNA (Testimony)
- Dr. Michael Swaine, Senior Associate, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Testimony)
10:45a – 11:00a: Break
11:00a – 12:30a: Panel II: Domestic Drivers, Policy, and Law
- Peter Dutton, Professor and Director, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College (Testimony)
- Dr. Jessica Chen Weiss, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University (Testimony)
12:30a – 1:30p: Lunch Break
1:30p – 3:00p: Panel III: Resources and Economic Drivers
- Dr. Steven Lewis, Fellow and Professor, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University (Testimony)
- Lloyd Thrall, Project Associate, RAND Corporation (Testimony)
3:00p Adjourn
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