Ok folks. Good afternoon. My name is john hammering. I am very pleased to have you all come, today. We will have a wonderful afternoon together. I look forward to this important conference. But i just say we have a little safety announcement for everyone. If we do have an incident where i have to ask you to get up and leave and follow me, the exits are right behind me. There are three doors. The stairs that take us to the street are closest to this door right here. We will no downstairs and meet across at National Geographic and get some ice cream or something. Just follow me if we need to do something. I need to give a bit of background for this project so that you understand what you are going to hear. This is a remarkably important thing because of the context of where we work. Ago, may, chairwoman fu ying, chairwoman of the Foreign Relations committee for the Peoples Congress came to me and said we think that the time is right for a serious study done by chinese think tank scholars
And china. We split the panels up so that this panel will address the papers on u. S. And chinese strategy and interest in the asiapacific region, and also u. S. China military to military issues. In the next panel will cover economics, global issues and politics. Scott kennedy will share that session. We had a number of participants who helped to write the papers or joined us in study groups to review the papers so this is a representative group, claiming that anyone who is involved but some of the key authors for each of the papers were going to address in the panels. Bonnie glaser, my colleague at csis and director by China Project will talk about the asiapacific papers. Were going to ask that panelists not to summarize the papers but identify between the american and chinese papers the issues of convergence, divergence and some recommendations. My friend zhu feng were present on the asiapacific strategy issue after bonnie. Then will ship to the military relationship. David finkelst
And china. We split the panels up so that this panel will address the papers on u. S. And chinese strategy and interest in the asiapacific region, and also u. S. China military to military issues. In the next panel will cover economics, global issues and politics. Scott kennedy will share that session. We had a number of participants who helped to write the papers or joined us in study groups to review the papers so this is a representative group, claiming that anyone who is involved but some of the key authors for each of the papers were going to address in the panels. Bonnie glaser, my colleague at csis and director by China Project will talk about the asiapacific papers. Were going to ask that panelists not to summarize the papers but identify between the american and chinese papers the issues of convergence, divergence and some recommendations. My friend zhu feng were present on the asiapacific strategy issue after bonnie. Then will ship to the military relationship. David finkelst
We split the panels up so that this panel will address the papers on u. S. And chinese strategy and interests in the asiapacific region. And also u. S. China military issues. And the next panel will cover economics, global issues and politics. Scott kennedy will chair that session. We had a number of participants who helped write the papers or who joined us in study groups to review the papers. So this is a representative group, its clearly not everyone who was involved, but some of the key authors in each of the papers were going to address in the panels, body glazer, my colleague at css, senior director of the China Project will talk about the asiapacific papers. Were going to ask the panelists not to summarize the papers but to identify between the american and chinese papers the issues of convergence, divergence and some recommendations. My friend will present on the asiapacific strategy after bonnie. Then well shift to the military relationship, David Finkelstein and the member fr
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