CHINA Town Hall
VIEW EVENT DETAILSLocal Connections, National Reflections
Asia Society Texas Center, in partnership with the Houston Committee on Foreign Relations, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and U.S.-China Partnerships, invites you to participate in the ninth annual CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections. CHINA Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving 70 cities throughout the United States.
This two part event includes a live webcast featuring Former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, Mayor Sheldon Day, and Daniel Rosen of the Rhodium Group discussing Chinese foreign direct investment in the United States. The webcast will be followed by a presentation by Mr. Andrew Small, transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States’ Asia Program and author of The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics, on China’s alliance with Pakistan. The China-Pakistan axis plays a central role in Asia's geopolitics, from India's rise to the prospects for a post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear terrorism to the continent's new map of mines, ports and pipelines. China is Pakistan's great economic hope and its most trusted military partner. Pakistan lies at the heart of China's geostrategic ambitions.
Schedule
Webcast with Robert Rubin, Sheldon Day, and Daniel Rosen, 6:00 pm
Presentation by Andrew Small, 7:00 pm
About the Speakers
Robert Rubin became Secretary of the Treasury in 1995 after serving as director of the National Economic Council. Prior to working in the Clinton Administration Mr. Rubin served as Vice-Chairman and Co-Chief Operating Officer at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Rubin was a member of the board at Citigroup, is a founder of the Hamilton Project, is the author of In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, and is the Co-Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Sheldon Day has served as the Mayor of Thomasville Alabama since 1996. He has had great success in the private sector and serves on multiple advisory boards for various academic and civic institutions. Mayor Day’s economic expertise reaches far beyond the borders of Alabama, as he is a first-hand expert in drawing foreign direct investment.
Daniel Rosen is a founding partner of the Rhodium Group, and he leads the firms work on China. Mr. Rosen is affiliated with a number of American thinktanks focused on international economics. He is also an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University. Mr. Rosen writes and speaks extensively on China. He is a frequent contributor to major print and television media, and has published seven major reports, on Chinese foreign direct investment in the US.
Andrew Small is a transatlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, which he has helped lead since 2006. His research focuses on U.S.-China relations, EU-China relations, Chinese policy in South and South-West Asia, and China's role in "problem" and fragile states. He was based in GMF’s Brussels office for five years, where he established the Asia program and the Stockholm China Forum, GMF's biannual China policy conference. He previously worked as the director of the Foreign Policy Centre's Beijing office; as a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and was an ESU scholar in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and both the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Development Committee of the European Parliament, and his articles and papers have been published in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Quarterly, as well as many other journals, magazines and newspapers. The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics is his first book. Andrew Small was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
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