Understanding the Sino-American relationship is essential to developing and maintaining a sound U.S. policy that serves our country’s interests. CHINA Town Hall offers Americans throughout the country an opportunity to learn about and reflect on these and other critical areas invoking China, the United States and other parts of the world.
Thursday October 16, 2014 from 5:15 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Wayne State University
Oakland Center
33737 West Twelve Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48331
5:15 – 6:00 pm Networking and discussion on 35 years of the U.S. China relationship
6:00 – 6:45 pm Ambassador Shinn – China And Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
7:00 – 7:45 pm Live webcast and Q & A with President Carter – 35 years of U.S. China Relations
President Carter was elected president on November 2, 1976. He counts among his administration’s significant foreign policy accomplishments the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union, and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. He championed human rights throughout the world. On the domestic side, the administration’s achievements included a comprehensive energy program conducted by a new Department of Energy; deregulation in energy, transportation, communications, and finance; major educational programs under a new Department of Education; and major environmental protection legislation, including the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.
China and Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
This is an overview of all aspects of the China-Africa relationship, which has matured considerably in the past decade. China is now facing some of the same challenges that Western countries have faced for several decades. China has shown, however, that it is often faster to take advantage of growing opportunities in many of Africa’s 54 countries. There is every indication that China is engaged in Africa for the long-term and Western countries must adapt to this increasingly important presence.
David Shinn is former ambassador to Burkina an Ethiopia. He has been teaching as an adjunct professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University since 2001. He served for 37 years in the U.S. Foreign Service with assignments at embassies in Lebanon, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Cameroon, Sudan. Assignments in the State Department included coordinator for Somalia during the international intervention in the early 1990s and director of East Africa and Horn of Africa affairs.
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Event Sponsors:
Chinese Association of Greater Detroit
Wayne State University
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