CAPP Events: 2002

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CAPP Sponsors Conference on Economic and Security Issues in China

On November 29-30, 2001, RAND and the China Reform Forum (CRF), a Chinese think-tank that analyses economic and political issues, held their fourth annual conference. Sponsored by CAPP and NDRI, with support from UCLA and the Capital Group Companies, the conference, titled "Issues and Concerns of China and the U.S. in the First Decade of the 21st Century," focused on three main topics: the role of regionalism and globalization in the world economy; the outlook for the Chinese and American economies and the interrelationship between the two; and the state of the U.S.-China strategic relationship.

Charles Wolf, senior economic advisor and corporate fellow in international economics at RAND, chaired and organized the conference along with Li Junru of the CRF. The group discussed a variety of issues including the challenges facing China's economy and its admission to WTO; causes of the American recession and prospects for recovery; the influence of Japan's recession on the world economy; tensions over Taiwan; and whether the improvement in relations between China and the U.S. post-September 11 will be a temporary or lasting phenomenon.

Richard Solomon, President of the United States Institute of Peace, addressed the conference with a talk on "The Challenge of Managing the Sino-U.S. Relationship" tracing the history of U.S.-Sino relations since the 1950s.

For more information on Sino-U.S. relations: Edited papers from the CAPP-CRF second annual conference were published in China, the United States, and the Global Economy, edited by Shuxun Chen and Charles Wolf.