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Baker Institute event to mark 30 years of US-China ties

Kissinger, Baker and Wenzhong featured speakers

The United States and the People's Republic of China established full diplomatic relations 30 years ago. To mark the event, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy will hold a daylong conference April 3 featuring senior statesmen and distinguished scholars from both countries to reflect on past accomplishments and to discuss predictions and recommendations for the future.

Speakers will include former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and James A. Baker III and China's Ambassador to the U.S. Zhou Wenzhong.

This conference, titled "America and China: The Next 30 Years," is the fourth since 2004 held by the Baker Institute and the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS).

Rice University President David Leebron will deliver the welcoming remarks at 8:30 a.m. Then Baker will introduce Kissinger, whose speech will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Yang Jiemian, president of the SIIS, will introduce Zhou at 9:30 a.m. Zhou's speech will also be followed by a question-and-answer session. Both Q-and-A sessions will be moderated by Edward Djerejian, founding director of the Baker Institute.

Later in the day, panel discussions will focus on U.S. and Chinese interests in the Middle East, overall Sino-U.S. relations and nonproliferation policy.

The conference will be held in Baker Hall's Doré Commons on the Rice University campus, 6100 Main St. For directions, go to http://www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html.

The event will be webcast. To watch the conference live, go to http://www.bakerinstitute.org/events/america-and-china-the-next-thirty-years and click on the "webcast" icon.

Support for this conference was provided by Continental Airlines.

Members of the news media who want to attend must RSVP to Franz Brotzen at franz.brotzen@rice.edu or 713-348-6775 by noon Wednesday, April 1, to obtain a media credential.

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