The 11th National People’s Congress in March 2008 completed the transition to the second term of the Hu Jintao-Wen Jiabao administration, making important changes in China’s party, government and military hierarchies. On April 7, the John L. Thornton China Center [1] at Brookings and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University will host a conference to examine what these changes mean for politics and policy in Beijing. When

Monday, April 07, 2008
9:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Where

Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
Directions [2]

Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

E-mail: events@brookings.edu [3]

Phone: 202.797.6105

ParticipantsWelcoming Remarks, 9:30 AM - 9:45 AMJeffrey A. Bader [4]

Director, John L. Thornton China Center [5]

Alice Miller

Editor, China Leadership Monitor
Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution

First Keynote Address, 9:45 AM - 10:30 AMTom Fingar

Chairman, National Intelligence Council

Panel I: Political Leadership and Succession, 10:45 AM - 12:00 PMCheng Li [6]

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy [7], John L. Thornton China Center [8]

Alice Miller

Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution

David Lampton

George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, The John Hopkins University

Lunch and Second Keynote Address, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PMSusan Shirk

Director, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation

Panel II: New Socio-Economic Tensions and Policy Responses, 1:45 PM - 3:00 PMJoseph Fewsmith

Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University

Barry Naughton

So Kwan Lok Professor of Chinese and International Affairs, University of California at san Diego

Albert Keidel

Senior Associate
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Panel III: The Taiwan and Military Policies of a Rising China, 3:15 PM - 4:30 PMAlan Romberg

Senior Associate and Director of the East Asian Program, The Henry Stimson Center

James Mulvenon

Director, Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis, The Defense Group, Inc.

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Professor of History, Georgetown University