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Join us this March 9-10th, 2012 in ASEAN auditorium at The Cabot Intercultural Center of Tufts University. 

The China-US Symposium, 塔夫兹大学中美关系年会, believes in building on the crossroads of ideas, nations, and people, at Tufts University.  To do this, we seek to bring the communities of Tufts and Boston, into close contact with the experts and practitioners of international relations of China and the United States. 

This year, we explore how the 2012 leadership transitions in China and the United States will affect their economic, security, legal, and diplomatic relations and interests. Four panels will focus on the facets of China-US relations.

David Rawson Memorial Lecture

Joseph Fewsmith Director of B.U.’s Center for the Study of Asia; Professor of International Relations and Political Science

America’s “Return to Asia” and China’s Broadening Pacific Power Military Security

Nan Li Professor at the China Maritime Studies Institute of the U.S. Naval War College

Michael Beckley Research Fellow at the Belfer Center of Harvard University, Incoming Tufts Professor of International Relations of East Asia

 Engagement with China Diplomacy, Negotiation, and Dispute Resolution

Sharon Hom Executive Director of Human Rights in China

Sung-Yoon Lee  Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School

 2012: 20 years after Deng Xiao Ping Economics and Business

Jeffrey Rosenberg Faculty at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

William Kirby Head of the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

William A. Reinsch President of the National Foreign Tade Council 

The Role of Law in Political Reform Law Development and Environment

Jamie Horsley Deputy Director of the China Law Center and Lecturer in law at Yale Law School

Margaret Woo Professor of Law at Northeastern University

Jacques Delisle Professor of Chinese Politics and Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School

The symposium is marked by the David Rawson Memorial Lecture, in honor of former Tufts graduate David Rawson. Past lectures included Retired Rear Admiral Eric McVadon and Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy.