Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs to Host Conference with The George Washington University on Transforming the Cold War: The United States and China, 1969-1980

Featured panelists include Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinksi, and Ambassador Winston Lord. Scheduled keynote speakers are Dr. Philip D. Zelikow, Counselor, U.S. Department of State, and Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Scholarly sessions will complement the release of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1972, volume XVII, China, and provide scholarly analysis of U.S.-China relations to 1980.

The conference will take place in Washington, D.C. On September 25^th and 26^th, conference proceedings will be at the U.S. Department of State in the Loy Henderson Conference Room. On September 27^th conference sessions will be held at The George Washington University. A full program and registration details can be found at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/64142.htm.

The normalization of relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China altered the international landscape of the Cold War dramatically, added pressure on the Soviet Union leading to its demise, and created the broad dimensions of U.S.-Chinese relations today. Aided by the recollections of key policymakers from the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations and documents unearthed by scholars from around the world, this conference will examine key factors contributing to the revolutionary change in U.S.-Chinese relations begun by Nixon and cemented by Carter. The conference will also study international repercussions of the opening of U.S.-Chinese relations.

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