Hearing: China-Europe Relationship and Transatlantic Implications

Thursday, April 19, 2012

AGENDA

8:15 am – 8:30 am            Opening Remarks

• Commissioner Carolyn Bartholomew [Statements]
• Commissioner Daniel Blumenthal [Statements]

8:30 am – 8:45 am          Congressional Perspectives

• Representative Dana Rohrabacher (CA-46) [Testimony]

9:00 am – 10:30 am        Panel I: Economic Relationship and the Eurozone Crisis

• Mr. Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington, DC [Testimony]
• Mr. Jonas Parello-Plesner, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, London, UK [Testimony]

10:45 am – 12:15 pm       Panel II: Defense and National Security Issues

• Dr. May-Britt Stumbaum, Head of Research Group “Asian Perceptions of the EU,” Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany [Testimony]
• Dr. Øystein Tunsjø, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Oslo, Norway [Testimony]
• Dr. Christina Lin, Visiting Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC [Testimony]

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm         Lunch Break

1:15 am – 2:45 pm          Panel III:  Relationship in the Foreign Policy Context

• Dr. Gudrun Wacker, Senior Fellow, Asia Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany [Testimony]
• Dr. Jonathan Holslag, Head of Research, Brussels Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Brussels, Belgium [Testimony]
• Ms. Michal Meidan, Analyst, Eurasia Group, London, UK (written testimony only) [Testimony]

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