China Town Hall
Webcast and discussion, UN Ambassador Susan RIce, on US-China Relations; special Dayton guest Admiral Michael McDevitt, USN
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China Town Hall
The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is pleased to announce that Ambassador Susan E. Rice will be the national webcast speaker for our eleventh annual CHINA Town Hall. In addition to her foreign policy experience as national security advisor (2013-2017) and U.S. permanent representative to the UN (2009-2013), Ambassador Rice also served as U.S. assistant secretary of state for African Affairs and senior director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. Her decades of public service and critical role in developing and executing the Obama administration's policies towards China make her perspective on the relationship especially relevant as we navigate this uncertain time in the bilateral relationship.
In addition to the national webcast, Rear Admiral Michael McDevitt, USN (ret.) will speak in person to the audience on the diplomatic issue of overlapping and antagonistic claims in the South China Sea. Admiral McDevitt is a Senior Fellow and former Vice-President at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA); a not-for- profit federally funded research center in Washington. He brings us expertise in security issues related to maritime security and US security policy, especially in East Asia and the maritime dimension of China’s national strategy and maritime related security issues in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. While on active duty he held four at-sea commands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans including an aircraft carrier battle group. Admiral McDevitt was the Director of the East Asia Policy office for the Secretary of Defense during the George H.W. Bush Administration and concluded his 34 year active duty career as the Commandant of the National War College in Washington.
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