CAPP Events: 2003

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RAND Hosts 6th Annual China Reform Forum Conference

On August 28th and 29th, RAND held its 6th annual conference with the China Reform Forum (CRF). CRF is the think tank of the China's Central Party School in Beijing. This conference series, whose venue alternates from year to year between Beijing and RAND's Santa Monica office, follows an agenda that focuses on issues of concern to both the U.S. and China. Economic issues are addressed on the first day, while participants focus on political-security issues on the second day.

The CRF delegation was headed by Dr. Wang Jisi, vice-chairman of CRF, and included five other senior officials and scholars from the Bank of China, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Tsinghua University. After welcoming remarks by RAND Vice President Michael Rich, the two-day conference was chaired by RAND Senior Economic Adviser and Corporate Fellow in International Economics Charles Wolf, Jr. and Wang Jisi. Papers and discussant remarks by participants from the U.S. were provided by RAND analysts William Overholt, K.C. Yeh, Benjamin Zycher, Ted Harshberger, and James Dobbins; Gary Hufbauer from the Institute for International Economics; and Richard Baum and Edward Leamer from UCLA.

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and current Rand Trustee Harold Brown gave a dinner talk on North Korea and nuclear proliferation. Other conference participants included CAPP Director Nina Hachigian, Thomas McNaugher, Vice President of the Arroyo Center at RAND, and Gina Despres and Galen Hoskin from the Capital Group Companies.