China’s Military Diplomacy and Overseas Security Activities

AGENDA

Hearing on "China’s Military Diplomacy and Overseas Security Activities" 

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 406, and Webex

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Hearing Co-Chairs: Chairman Carolyn Bartholomew [Opening Statement] and Commissioner Randall Schriver [Opening Statement]

9:30 AM – 9:40 AM: Co-Chairs' Opening Remarks
 
9:40 AM – 11:10 AM: Panel I: Military Diplomacy: Concepts and Strategy

• Phillip Saunders, Director of the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs, National Defense University Institute for National Strategic Studies [Testimony]
• Kristen Gunness, Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation [Testimony]
• Jordan Link, Independent Researcher [Testimony]

11:10 AM – 11:20 AM: Break

11:20 AM – 12:50 PM: Panel II: Military Diplomacy for Improving Capabilities and Access

• Richard Weitz, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis, Hudson Institute [Testimony]
• Jeffrey Becker, Research Program Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Program, Center for Naval Analyses [Testimony]
• Melodie Ha, Management Analyst, U.S. Department of Defense [Testimony]

12:50 PM – 1:50 PM: Lunch Break

1:50 PM – 2:50 PM: Panel III: China’s Foreign Military Sales and Technological Acquisition

• April Herlevi, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Naval Analyses [Testimony]
• Meia Nouwens, Senior Research Fellow for Chinese Security and Defense Policy, International Institute for Strategic Studies [Testimony]

2:50 PM – 2:55 PM: Closing Remarks

2:55 PM: Adjourn

Statement for the Record

• Isaac Kardon, Senior Fellow for China Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace [Statement]