Hearing on China’s Role in the World: Is China a Responsible Stakeholder?
August 3-4, 2006
385 Russell Senate Office Building
Delaware & Constitution Avenues, NE
Washington, DC 20510
Thursday, August 3 385 Russell Senate Office Building
Hearing Co-chairs: Vice Chairman Carolyn Bartholomew, Commissioner Dan Blumenthal
8:30 am – 9:00 am Panel I: Congressional Perspectives
- Senator James M. Inhofe (R-OK)
9:00 am – 10:00 am Panel II: Administration Perspectives
- Dr. Thomas Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Washington, DC
10:00 am – 11:30 am Panel III: The Impact of China’s Diplomatic Strategies on U.S. Interests
- Dr. Ernest J. Wilson, III, Professor, Department of Government and Politics, Department of African-American Studies, University of Maryland,
College Park , MD
- Dr. John Calabrese, Scholar-in-Residence, The Middle East Institute, Assistant Professor, American University, Washington, DC
- Dr. Cynthia Watson, Professor, National Defense University, Washington, DC
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Panel IV: China’s Involvement in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
- Dr. Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC
- Dr. Dru Gladney, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
12:30 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch Break
1:15 pm – 3:00 pm Panel V: China’s Activities and Diplomacy in Asia
- Dr. Karl D. Jackson, Director of the Southeast Asia Studies Program, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
- RADM Michael McDevitt, USN (Ret.), Director, Center for Strategic Studies, The Center for Naval Analyses, Alexandria, VA
- Dr. Robert Sutter, Professor of Asian Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
3:15 pm – 5:00 pm Panel VI: China’s Relationship with Countries of Concern
- Mr. Jared M. Genser, Visiting Fellow, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, DC
- Dr. Eric Reeves, Professor of Language and Literature, Smith College, Northampton, MA
- Dr. William Ratliff, Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Friday, August 4 385 Russell Senate Office Building
Hearing Co-chairs: Vice Chairman Carolyn Bartholomew, Commissioner Dan Blumenthal, Commissioner Michael Wessel
8:30 am – 9:30 am Panel VII: Administration Perspectives
- Ms. Katharine Ann Fredriksen, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy in the Office of Policy and International Affairs, Washington, DC
9:30 am – 10:30 am Panel VIII: China’s Energy Requirements and Policies
- Dr. Erica Downs, China Energy Fellow, The Brookings Institution,
Washington , DC
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Panel IX: China and the Global Petroleum Supply
- Ms. Amy Jaffe, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow, The Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, TX
- Dr. Martha Brill Olcott, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
- Dr. David Gates, Senior Advisor, PFC Energy, Chatham, NJ