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Hearing on China's Expanding Global Influence: Foreign Policy Goals, Practices, and Tools

March 18, 2008
Room 562, Dirksen Senate Office Building
First Street and Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20510

Hearing Agenda: (PDF)

PARTICIPANTS BIO'S and TESTIMONIES: (Click on a name to read Participants Bio's in an HTML page. View a Testimony in HTML or PDF view by clicking the associated link with each individual. Some Participants may not have a Bio or Written Testimony. )

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Hearing Co chairs: Vice Chairman Carolyn Bartholomew and Commissioner Daniel Blumenthal

OPENING STATEMENTS

• Opening Statement of Chairman Larry Wortzel (HTML) (PDF)
• Opening Statement of Vice Chairman Carolyn Bartholomew (HTML) (PDF)

Panel I: Administration Perspective

• Dr. Thomas Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Washington, DC (HTML) (PDF)
• Mr. David Sedney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian Affairs, Washington, DC (HTML) (PDF)

Panel II: The Strategies and Objectives of China’s Foreign Affairs

• Dr. Edward Friedman, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (HTML) (PDF)
• Dr. Mohan Malik, Professor, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, HI (HTML) (PDF)

Panel III: Tools of China’s Statecraft: Economics and Trade

• Dr. Lawrence Grinter, Professor of Asian Studies, Air War College, Montgomery, AL (HTML) (PDF)
• Mr. Mauro De Lorenzo, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC

Panel IV: Tools of China’s Statecraft: Military and Security

• Dr. Cynthia Watson, Professor, National War College, Washington, DC (HTML) (PDF)
• Colonel Philippe D. Rogers, USMC , Command Inspector General, Marine Corps Special Operations Command, Camp Lejeune, NC (HTML) (PDF)

Panel V: Tools of China’s Statecraft: Diplomacy

• Ms. Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC (HTML) (PDF)
• Mr. Josh Kurlantzick, Visiting Scholar-China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC (HTML) (PDF)
• Dr. Andrew Scobell, Associate Professor, Bush School of Government, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (HTML) (PDF)
• Mr. Andrew Small, Program Associate, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Brussels, Belgium (HTML) (PDF)
  

Hearing on “China's Views of Sovereignty and Methods of Access Control”

February 27, 2008
Room 562, Dirksen Senate Office Building
First Street and Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20510

PARTICIPANTS BIO'S and TESTIMONIES: (Click on a name to read Participants Bio's in an HTML page. View a Testimony in HTML or PDF view by clicking the associated link with each individual. Some Participants may not have a Bio or Written Testimony. )

Hearing Agenda: (PDF)

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Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioners Mark Esper and Jeffrey Fiedle

OPENING STATEMENTS

• Opening Statement of Carolyn Bartholomew, Vice Chairman (HTML) (PDF)
• Opening Statement of Mark Esper, Commissioner (HTML) (PDF)
• Opening Statement of Jeffrey Fiedler, Commissioner (HTML) (PDF)

Wednesday, February 27

Panel I: Congressional Perspectives

• Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) (HTML) (PDF)

Panel II: Chinese Views of Sovereignty

• Dr. Allen R. Carlson, Professor of Political Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (HTML) (PDF)
• Dr. June Teufel Dreyer, Professor of Political Sciences, University of Miami School of Business Administration, Coral Gables, FL (HTML) (PDF)

Panel III: Chinese Methods of Advancing Sovereignty by Non-military Means

• Dr. Robert G. Sutter, Professor of Asian Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (HTML) (PDF)

Panel IV: Chinese Methods of Advancing Sovereignty by Military Means

• Mr. Peter Dutton, Esquire and Associate Professor of Strategic Studies, Naval War College, Newport, RI (HTML) (PDF)
• LTC (retired) Roy D. Kamphausen, Vice President of Political and Security Affairs, National Bureau of Asian Research, Washington, DC (HTML) (PDF)

Panel V: Chinese Views of Sovereignty in Space and Cyberspace

• Mr. Philip A. Meek, Esquire and Associate General Counsel of International Affairs, Air Force General Counsel’s Office, Washington, DC (HTML) (PDF)
• Mr. James A. Lewis, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC (HTML) (PDF)