Mr. Wang Jisi is Director and a Senior Researcher of the Institute
of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
He is also director of the Institute of International and Strategic
Studies at the Party School of the Central Committee. In addition, Mr.
Wang is a founding member of the Pacific Council on International Policy
in Los Angeles. He has taught at Peking University, was a visiting fellow
at Oxford University, and most recently taught at Claremont McKenna
College. Mr. Wang received an M.A. from Peking University. His articles
in English include "America: Rogue Superpower, But Needed Economic Engine,"
(2002) and "China's Response to G.W. Bush: A Tactical Move, or a Strategic
Orientation," (2002). In Chinese, Mr. Wang published a volume entitled
Lonely at the Top: U.S. Global Strategy and Position in the Post-Cold
War World.
Dr. Kurt Campbell is Senior Vice President and
Director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Before joining CSIS, he worked at the Department of Defense as deputy
assistant director of defense, at the White House as deputy special
counselor to the president for NAFTA and as a member of the National
Security Council staff. Dr. Campbell has also been an associate professor
of public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
In addition, he was a fellow at the International Institute for Strategic
Studies in London and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He received a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a Ph.D.
in international relations from Oxford University and a certificate
in music and political philosophy from the University of Erevan in Soviet
Armenia. Dr. Campbell's publications include The Power of Balance:
100 Strategic Insights into the Pacific Century (forthcoming, 2003)
and To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign against Terrorism
(principal author, 2001).
Dr. Minxin Pei is a Senior Associate and Co-Director
of the China program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
His main interest is the development of democratic political institutions,
the politics of economic reform, the growth of civil society, and legal
institutions. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, Dr. Pei was an
assistant professor at Princeton University. He has received numerous
awards, including the Olin Faculty Fellowship, the National Fellowship
of the Hoover Institution and the Robert S. MacNamara Fellowship of
the World Bank. Dr. Pei received a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard
University. He has written From Reform to Revolution: The Demise
of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (1994). He is completing
a book, China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy.
Dr. Pei also has published articles in Foreign Affairs, The New York
Times and The Los Angeles Times.
Despite the view of some Chinese officials that the United
States is an aggressive power trying to dominate the whole world, they
also realize that China is not likely to be on Washington's list of
enemies in the near future. Mr. Wang Jisi will discuss how China-U.S.
relations are in much better shape than the pre-9/11 period. The North
Korean nuclear problem is a new stimulus to the seeking of strategic
coordination between the two countries in East Asia, while the Taiwan
problem has been put on the backburner for the time being. The preoccupation
of the new Chinese leadership with domestic agendas is yet another insurance
of the continued moderation of Beijing's policy toward Washington.
