|  China:
A Series on the World's Next Great Power
"China's Global Rise: The Chinese Economy and the United States"
Part
Two of a five-part series
A Two-Day
Conference
October 25-26, 2004
The Richard
W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership
at Furman University in cooperation with the Asian Studies Department
presented Part Two of China's Global Rise, a five-part series of
lectures and conferences on China's transformations and current
challenges.
China's economy is the fastest growing in the world, and the nation
is rapidly becoming the world leader in export manufacturing. With
its huge population and low wage costs, many predict that China's
gross national product will exceed that of the United States by
the middle of this century.
What does the rise of China, the world's next super power, mean
for America?
Furman's Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and
Public Leadership addressed that question during the two-day forum
on campus Oct. 25-26. The program, which featured some of the nation's
top experts on China, was titled "China's Global Rise: The
Chinese Economy and the United States."
The program opened Monday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Hartness Pavilion
with a keynote address by Albert Keidel, a senior associate with
the Carnegie Endowment. The former deputy director for the Office
of East Asian Nations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Keidel
addressed issues relating to China's economic transformation.
Following Keidel's address, there was a panel discussion on "Challenges
and Prospects: China's Domestic Economy in the 21st Century."
The panelists included Dorothy Solinger, a professor of political
science at the University of California at Irvine; Sonia Li, Deputy
Secretary General of the China International Institute of Multinational
Corporations in Beijing; and Fei-ling Wang, a professor at The Sam
Nunn School of International Relations at Georgia Institute of Technology.
There was a
panel discussion on, “China’s Economic Rise: How Should
America Respond?,” held on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 4-5:30 p.m. at
the Westin Poinsett. It was co-sponsored by Advantage Greenville.
The panelists included John Foarde, staff director of the Congressional-Executive
Commission on China; June Teufel Dreyer, US-China Economic and Security
Review Commission and professor of Political Science at the University
of Miami; Clarke Thompson, South Carolina Department of Commerce
Senior Manager of International Trade; and Bern McPheeley, CEO and
general manager of Hartness International.
The forum concluded Tuesday, Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the University
Center's Watkins Room with an address by Pieter Bottelier, an international
economist and China scholar. Bottelier is currently a Visiting Associate
Professor at Johns Hopkins University and former Chief of the World
Bank's Resident Mission in Beijing.
For more complete biographical information about the forum participants
or the schedule of events, click below.
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