The University of Southern California U.S. - China Institute's conference on "The Future of U.S. - China Relations will be held April 20-21, 2007 at USC's Davidson Conference Center. Twenty of the top scholars working on U.S. - China relations and on trends in contemporary China will speak. The keynote address, the Herbert G. Klein Lecture, will be given on April 20 by former U.S. Ambassador to China, J. Stapleton Roy.
There will be five panels: State to State Relations and Economic Ties, Energy Needs and Environmental Challenges, Social and Economic Disparity, Cultural and Intellectual Trends, and Prospects for Political Reform The following are among the scholars chairing panels, presenting and discussing papers, and participating in the closing roundtable discussion:
Geremie Barmé (Australian National University), Carolyn Cartier (USC), Warren Cohen (University of Maryland), Lowell Dittmer (UC Berkeley), David Dollar (World Bank), June Teufel Dreyer (University of Miami) Elizabeth Economy (Council on Foreign Relations) Richard Louis Edmonds (University of Chicago), Edward Friedman (University of Wisconsin), Geoffrey Garrett (Pacific Council / USC), Merle Goldman (Boston University), Guo Liang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Harry Harding (Eurasia Group / George Washington University), C. Anderson Johnson (USC), Daniel Lynch (USC), Andrew Nathan (Columbia), Kevin O'Brien (UC Berkeley), William Overholt (RAND), Stanley Rosen (USC), Orville Schell (Asia Society / UC Berkeley), Wang Shaoguang (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Zhao Suisheng (University of Denver), Zheng Xiaoying (Peking University), and David Zweig (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).