The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace today announced the October 5 launch of a debate series on the most critical—and controversial—issues facing China and their implications for U.S. policy.
The invitation-only series, “Reframing China Policy: The Carnegie Debates, 2006-2007” is primarily for members of Congress and their senior staffs. The debates also will reach a much wider audience of experts, opinion leaders, and the general public through Internet distribution. (www.CarnegieEndowment.org/ChinaDebates)
The first debate will examine the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rule, the likelihood of regime transformation, and the national security implications for the United States. Minxin Pei, senior associate and director of Carnegie’s China Program, will moderate the first debate, featuring Roderick MacFarquhar of Harvard University and Andrew Nathan of Columbia University—two of the world’s preeminent scholars on the Chinese political system.
“Given the enormous stakes in ‘getting China policy right,’ it is incumbent upon U.S. policy makers to gain a far deeper, more accurate understanding of China’s rise, and its implications for U.S. policy,” said Pei. “Carnegie’s China Program is uniquely positioned to provide independent analysis and actionable public policy assessments of U.S relations with China.”
The Carnegie China Program’s Washington-based scholars represent a broad range of perspectives on China’s political, military, and economic development and are engaged in ongoing joint research projects with leading Chinese think tanks and government agencies. The program also has it own research staff in Beijing through a partnership with one of China’s major policy research institutes.
Dr. MacFarquhar, director of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard and former British MP, is a renowned expert on the inner workings of the CCP leadership. His most recent book, Mao’s Last Revolution, analyzes the brutal political turmoil of China’s Cultural Revolution.
Dr. Nathan, The Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia, is a specialist on Chinese leadership elites. He is coeditor of “The Tiananmen Papers,” a groundbreaking and controversial analysis of the CCP’s political leadership during the Tiananmen Square protests. Dr. Nathan is also cochairman of the board of directors for the advocacy group Human Rights in China.
NOTE TO EDITORS:
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The Carnegie Endowment established its China Program in 2001 to advance reforms inside China and improve the ties between China and the international community. It produces timely research on China and U.S.-China relations so that policymakers in both countries may develop effective and practical public policy responses.
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