The United States and China: The Next Five Years
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As the United States and China emerge from the global financial crisis, both countries face exceptionally difficult challenges to their domestic economies. In response, both are embarking on major domestic economic restructuring programs that are likely to have substantial ripple effects on their bilateral relationship and the global economy. Each country has important interests in the success of the other country’s domestic economic outcomes, as the changes sought by each arguably meet the interests of the other.
On May 19, the Brookings Institution and China’s Caixin Media hosted a conference examining the substance and prospects for economic restructuring in China and the U.S. over the next five years and the impact on their bilateral relationship. Zhu Min, special advisor to the managing director of International Monetary Fund, gave a keynote address.
After each panel, the speakers took audience questions.
Agenda
9:00 AM: Panel 1 - Economic Restructuring Agendas in the United States
Karen Dynan
Professor of the Practice of Economics - Harvard University
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Peterson Institute for International Economics
Alice M. Rivlin
Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy
Laya Li
Professor of Econometrics, Huaqiao University
10:45 AM: Panel 2 - Economic Restructuring Agendas in China
HU Shuli
Chief Editor, Caixin Media
Huang Yiping
Professor of Economics, Peking University CCER
Xu Chenggang
Quoin Professor in Economic Development, University of Hong Kong
Pan Gongsheng
Senior Executive Vice President, Agricultural Bank of China
Nicholas Lardy
Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
12:30 PM: Lunch Keynote
Zhu Min
Special Advisor to the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
2:00 PM: Panel 3 - Impact on the Global Stage of U.S. and Chinese Economic Restructuring
WANG Shuo
Managing Editor, Caixin Media
JIN Liqun
Chairman of Supervisory Board, China Investment Corporation (CIC)
Homi Kharas
Interim Vice President and Director - Global Economy and Development
3:15 PM: Panel 4 - Trade and Direct Investment
Susan Schwab
Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Charles Freeman
Freeman Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Cheng Lixin
President and CEO, ZTE North America
4:30 PM: Panel 5 - U.S.-China Relations
Shi Yinhong
Professor of International Relations and Director, Center on American Studies, Renmin University of China
David M. Lampton
Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies Emeritus - Johns Hopkins University SAIS
Douglas H. Paal
Vice President for Studies - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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