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TOPIC: Perspectives on China - Current Developments and Challenges
China has become an important topic in almost every way imaginable. There are many critical questions that are being asked about the future and the impact of China’s political and economic transitions. What is happening in China both economically and politically? Will China be able to continue to be one of the highest growth economies in the future given its collapsing real estate bubble, high debt, rising labors, and government regulatory actions? Can Chemical and Life Science companies continue to depend on supply of products from China and revenues into and in China? Is China still an attractive place to invest?
Two leading experts on China will provide their views of what is happening and their answers to these questions. The discussion will include their thoughts on the implications for chemical and life science companies who are doing business with China or in China.
This event will be conducted as a fireside chat moderated by Peter Young, Société de Chimie Industrielle board member, and CEO of Young & Partners, the chemicals and life science investment bank. Attendees will be able to participate in person and meet the other attendees and the speakers or virtually.
In-person capacity is 38 attendees.
Option to attend virtually is now available. Unlimited slots available for virtual participation. Once you register for the virtual option, the link will be emailed to participants the day prior to the event.
Speakers:
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Craig Allen
President,
US-China Business Council
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Ian Johnson
Senior Fellow for China Studies,
Council on Foreign Relations
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About our Speakers:
Craig Allen is a well know expert on China and is the President of the US-china Business Council. In 2018, Craig became President of the US-China Business Council (USCBC), a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization representing over 260 American companies doing business with China. Prior to joining USCBC, Craig had a long, distinguished career in US public service.
Craig began his government career in 1985 at the Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA). He entered government as a Presidential Management Intern, rotating through the four branches of ITA. From 1986 to 1988, he was an international economist in ITA’s China Office. In 1988, Craig transferred to the American Institute in Taiwan, where he served as Director of the American Trade Center in Taipei. He held this position until 1992, when he returned to the Department of Commerce for a three-year posting at the US Embassy in Beijing as Commercial Attaché. In 1995, Craig was assigned to the US Embassy in Tokyo, where he served as a Commercial Attaché. In 1998, he was promoted to Deputy Senior Commercial Officer. In 1999, Craig became a member of the Senior Foreign Service. From 2000, Craig served a two-year tour at the National Center for APEC in Seattle. While there, he worked on the APEC Summits in Brunei, China, and Mexico. In 2002, it was back to Beijing, where Craig served as the Senior Commercial Officer. In Beijing, Craig was promoted to the Minister Counselor rank of the Senior Foreign Service. After a four-year tour in South Africa, Craig became Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia at the US Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration. He later became Deputy Assistant Secretary for China. Craig was sworn in as the United States ambassador to Brunei Darussalam on December 19, 2014. He served there until July 2018, when he transitioned to President of the US-China Business Council.
Craig received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in Political Science and Asian Studies in 1979. He received a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1985.
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, researcher, and senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is currently writing a book about how history is used to legitimize and challenge Communist Party rule in China, and closely follows China’s efforts to bolster its soft power around the globe.
He first went to China as a student in Beijing from 1984 to 1985, and then studied in Taipei from 1986 to 1988. He later worked as a newspaper correspondent in China, from 1994 to 1996 with Baltimore’s The Sun, and from 1997 to 2001 with The Wall Street Journal, where he covered macro economics, China’s WTO accession and social issues. In 2009, Johnson returned to China, living there until 2020 when he was expelled from China as part of worsening tensions between China and the United States. He wrote regularly for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. He taught undergraduates at The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies, and served as an advisor to The Journal of Asian Studies. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Leipzig on Chinese religious associations.
Johnson won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of China, two awards from the Overseas Press Club, an award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Stanford University’s Shorenstein Journalism Award for his body of work covering Asia. In 2019 he won the American Academy of Religion’s “best in-depth newswriting” award. He was also awarded a 2020-2021 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars fellowship for a new book he is writing on China’s unofficial history.
Johnson has published three books and contributed chapters to four others. His newest book, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao, describes China’s religious revival and its implications for politics and society. His other books are on civil society and grassroots protest in China (Wild Grass, 2004) and Islamism and the Cold War in Europe (A Mosque in Munich, 2010).
Johnson was born in Montréal, Canada. He holds Canadian and U.S. citizenship. He is a permanent resident of Germany but currently lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.