8th U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue
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delegation of U.S. Democratic and Republican Party leaders and U.S. business leaders met with senior Communist Party of China (CPC) officials and Chinese business leaders in Beijing, China, on May 6-8, 2015. This visit is part of the U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue, organized by the EastWest Institute and the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPC (IDCPC). Launched in 2010, the U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue seeks to build understanding and trust between political elites from the United States
and China through an exchange of views on governance and foreign policy issues. This eighth iteration of the Dialogue represented the highestlevel visit ever to China by sitting officers of both major U.S. political parties. It was also the first-ever Dialogue visit to China involving former Cabinet-level officials from both the incumbent Obama administration and the George W. Bush administration. Ronald Kirk, former United States trade representative and former mayor of Dallas, and R. James Nicholson, former chairman of the Republican National Commit-
tee and former secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, led the U.S. Democratic and Republican delegations, respectively. The Chinese delegation was led by Wang Jiarui, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the minister of IDCPC. Dialogue sessions focused on rule of law and anti-corruption measures in China and the United States and the political landscape in both countries, including prospects for the upcoming 2016 U.S. presidential election. Additionally, the U.S. delegation met with
Wang Qishan, Politburo Standing Committee member and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, at Zhongnanhai, and Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Yesui. For the first time in the Dialogue’s history, U.S. and Chinese participants also included representatives from U.S. and Chinese corporations, who spoke at an inaugural U.S.-China Entrepreneurs Roundtable. The roundtable focused on trade, investment and other economic issues in the bilateral relationship and corporate perspectives on doing crossPacific business.
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U.S. Participants
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Ronald KIRK Senior Of Counsel, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Former U.S. Trade Representative
Robert L. HOLDEN Chairman, MidWest US-China Association; Former Governor, Missouri
Raymond BUCKLEY Vice Chair, Democratic National Committee; Chair, New Hampshire Democratic Party
R. James NICHOLSON Senior Counsel, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP; Former Chairman, Republican National Committee; Former Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs
Edward W. GILLESPIE Founder, Ed Gillespie Strategies; Former Chairman, Republican National Committee
Anthony W. PARKER Treasurer, Republican National Committee
Robert E. FERGUSON Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy, General Motors
Albert XIE Vice President, Public Policy and Government Relations, General Motors China
Timothy STRATFORD Managing Partner, Covington & Burling LLP (Beijing); Former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative
Will SONG General Manager and Chairman, Global Surgery Group, Johnson & Johnson China
Jeffrey QUE Vice President, Government Affairs and Policy, Johnson & Johnson China
John K. HURLEY Founder and Managing Partner, Cavalry Asset Management; Director, EastWest Institute
Steven J. LUND Executive Chairman, Board of Directors, Nu Skin Enterprises; Executive Director, Nourish the Children, Nu Skin Enterprises
Keynes LI Chief Representative of Beijing, Nu Skin Greater China; Vice President, Business Support & Regulatory Excellence, Nu Skin Greater China
David J. FIRESTEIN Perot Fellow and Vice President, Strategic Trust-Building Initiative and Track 2 Diplomacy, EastWest Institute
Chinese Participants
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WANG Jiarui Vice Chairman, National Committee, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference; Minister, IDCPC
XU Lyuping Vice Minister, IDCPC
WANG Xiaohui Vice Minister, CPC Central Committee Policy Research Office; Vice Minister, CPC Central Committee Publicity Department
YUAN Shuhong Vice Minister, Legislative Affairs Office, State Council
FU Kui Vice Minister, National Corruption Prevention Bureau of China; Director General, International Cooperation Department, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
HU Yanxin President, China Economic Cooperation Center
FAN Bi Deputy Director General, Department of General Affairs I, Research Office, State Council
HE Jianwu Deputy Director, Research Office, Department of Development Strategy and Regional Economy, Development Research Center, State Council
ZHANG Baolin President, China Changan Automobile Group Co., Ltd.
Herbert Hongbo CHEN Chief Operating Officer, Tsinghua University Science Park (TusPark) Co., Ltd.
Jerome MA Vice President, Corporate Affairs, JD Group
GAO Jin Boarding Director, Beijing Jing-Meng Stem Cell Technology Co., Ltd.
ZHOU Yuanxin Product Director, Beijing Compunicate Technologies Inc.
Sabrina LI Chief Executive Officer, Coyote Bioscience Co., Ltd.
U.S. Delegation Activities
Dialogue with senior Communist Party of China officials, led by Wang Jiarui (Photo source: IDCPC)
Meeting with Wang Qishan, member of the Politburo Standing Committee and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
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U.S.-China Entrepreneurs Roundtable, co-hosted by the IDCPC and the China Economic Cooperation Center
Dinner celebrating the five-year anniversary of the U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue
Meeting with Zhang Yesui, executive vice minister of foreign affairs
Visit to Sina and Zhongguancun-Innoway, a start-up incubator
(Photo source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China)
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Acknowledgements Host and Partner Organization: International Department, Central Committee, Communist Party of China (IDCPC) Special thanks to our sponsors for their support of the U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue:
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