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CHINA Town Hall:
Local Connections, National Reflections
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
5:30 p.m. Reception
6 p.m. Presentation by Jennifer Turner
7 p.m. Webcast featuring Zbigniew Brzezinski
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201
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China's rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the United States. CHINA Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving 50 cities throughout the United States.
7 p.m. Webcast featuring Zbigniew Brzezinski
The National Committee is pleased to present this program, which will feature a webcast by Zbigniew Brzezinski, counselor and trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, D.C.
From 1977 to 1981, Brzezinski was national security adviser to the president of the United States. In 1981, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom "for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States."
Before his government service, Brzezinski was on the faculty of Harvard University (1953-60) and Columbia University (1960-69). He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from McGill and his doctorate from Harvard.
Brzezinski is a frequent public speaker, commentator on major domestic and foreign TV programs, and contributor to domestic and foreign newspapers and journals. He is a prolific author. His most recent book is American and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy, coauthored with Brent Scowcroft and moderated by David Ignatius.
He is also the author of Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower; The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership; The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives; the best-selling The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20th Century; Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century; Game Plan: How to Conduct the U.S.-Soviet Contest; Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977-1981; The Fragile Blossom: Crisis and Change in Japan; Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era; The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict; and other books and many articles in numerous U.S. and foreign academic journals.
The webcast will be moderated by Stephen A. Orlins, president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
6 p.m. Presentation by Jennifer Turner
Preceding the webcast at 6 p.m. will be a presentation by Jennifer Turner, director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center for 12 years.
Besides putting on meetings and publications focusing on a variety of energy and environmental challenges facing China, Turner has coordinated several research exchange activities in bringing together Chinese, U.S., and other Asian experts on issues of energy and climate cooperation, environmental civil society groups, environmental justice, river basin governance, water conflict resolution, and municipal financing of environmental infrastructure.
The China Environment Forum's central work for the past year has focused on creating meetings and a new series of research briefs for the Cooperative Competitors: Building New U.S. China Energy and Climate Networks initiative. CEF's other main project is Choke Point: China, in which CEF and the Michigan-based NGO Circle of Blue have researched and reported on China’s water-energy confrontation and produced 16 online multimedia reports (www.circleofblue.org/chokepointchina).
Turner also serves as editor of the Wilson Center's journal, the China Environment Series, which is distributed to over 3,000 practitioners around the world who work on China's energy and environmental challenges. Her current research focuses on U.S.-China energy and climate cooperation, China's water-energy confrontations and Chinese "green" civil society.
Turner received her Ph.D. in public policy and comparative politics from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1997.
This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Chinese Studies and the National Commitee on U.S.-China Relations.
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