“The mission of the Michigan 
China Forum is to connect 
Michigan with China by inviting 
key 
figures 
across 
different 
industries to discuss the latest 
and most controversial topics,” 
Shang said. “We’re committed to 
empowering future leaders of the 
United States, China and beyond 
to excel in the global landscape. 
The forum will serve as a 
platform for students and young 
professionals 
across 
different 
cultures to gain insights, dispel 
biases and engage in inspiring 
dialogues.”
Ray Cao, Michigan China 
Forum 
co-president 
and 
Engineering senior, elaborated 
on this year’s conference theme. 
“This year our forum has 
the theme of ‘Empower the 
Transformation,’ which reflects 
the 
ongoing, 
unprecedented 
changes that’s happened with the 
Sino-US relationship,” Cao said. 

“Michigan China Forum will 
help connect industry leaders 
with future victors to face all the 
chief challenges and welcome all 
the transformations.” 
Brian 
Wu, 
Ross 
China 
Initiatives faculty director and 
associate professor of strategy, 
gave a brief overview of the 
history between the University 
and China. Wu explained the 
third 
University 
President 
James Angell was also a U.S. 
minister to China. According to 
Wu, Angell convinced the U.S. 
government to return a 1901 
war indemnity to China, which 
helped fund Tsinghua University, 
China’s top academic institution, 
and provided scholarships for 
Chinese students to study abroad. 
However, Angell’s involvement 
in 
drafting 
exclusionary 
immigration policy in the late 
1800s has warranted criticism. 
Angell negotiated the Angell 
Treaty in 1880, an agreement 
with China permitting the United 
States to restrict but not entirely 
ban Chinese immigration. The 

Angell Treaty formed the basis of 
the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, 
which ended immigration of both 
skilled and unskilled Chinese 
laborers for 10 years and required 
every Chinese person traveling 
to and from the United States to 
carry identification. 
In addition, according to Wu, 
when the Chinese table tennis 
team visited the United States 
in 1972 in what has been dubbed 
“ping-pong diplomacy” — the 
thawing of Cold War tensions 
between the U.S. and China after 
each country’s national ping pong 
team was invited and travelled 
to the other country — the 
University was its first stop. In 
2017, University faculty organized 
the 45th anniversary celebration 
of ping-pong diplomacy. 
In 
his 
welcome 
speech, 
Brad Killaly, Associate Dean 
of Ross Global Programs and 
clinical assistant professor of 
strategy, expressed the mission 
of the Michigan China Forum 
aligns 
with 
the 
mission 
of 
both the Business School and 
the 
larger 
University 
in 
promoting understanding and 
cooperation.
“Regardless of how we may 
feel in the discourse around in 
the world now with potentially 
a lack of understanding across 
boundaries 
and 
borders, 
events 
such 
as 
this 
are 
absolutely critical in changing 
representation of a boxing 
match to one of handshakes,” 
Killaly said. “And our role and 
our responsibility here at the 
Ross School of Business and 
of our entire University is to 
in fact build an entire world 
of handshakes, optimism and 
positive change.”
Zhao Jian, consul general 
of China in Chicago, delivered 
the keynote speech, in which 
he highlighted the economic 
growth of China in the last 
70 years. He noted China is 
the world’s second largest 
economy 
and 
has 
lifted 
hundreds 
of 
millions 
of 
Chinese people out of poverty. 
Jian said China’s development 
is a result of the hard work and 
wisdom of the Chinese people. 
According 
to 
Zhao 

Jian, 
China 
is 
devoted 
to 
open 
cooperation 
as 
global 
relationships benefit China and 
the rest of the world depends on 
China. 
“China 
is 
committed 
to 
deepening reform and opening 
wider 
to 
the 
world,” 
Zhao 
Jian 
said. 
“Openness 
brings 
progress while seclusion leads 
to backwardness. China cannot 
develop itself in isolation from 
the world, and the world needs 
China for global prosperity.”
Zhao Jian expressed the Sino-
U.S. relationship has been key in 
addressing a number of issues, 
including 
counterterrorism, 
trade, environmental protection, 
disease 
control 
and 
moon 
exploration. 
Going 
forward, 
though much has changed, Zhao 
Jian emphasized the importance 
of cooperation between China 
and the United States.
“The 
importance 
of 
this 
bilateral 
relationship 
to 
welfare of the people of our 
two countries and the broader 
international community has not 
changed,” Zhao Jian said. “This 
is a relationship between the 
largest developing country and 
the largest developed country, 
actually the only superpower in 
the world … We both stand to gain 
from cooperation and lose from 
confrontation.” 
Sino-U.S. Relations Panel
The 
Sino-U.S. 
Relations 
Panel was held immediately 
following the Opening Ceremony. 
Moderated by LSA junior Ian 
Wang, the panel centered around 
three major themes: nationalism 
and 
political 
development, 
politics of the Sino-U.S. trade 
relation 
and 
conflicts 
and 
cooperation. 
Panel members included Wu; 
Suisheng Zhao, University of 
Denver professor of Chinese 
politics and foreign policy; Ronald 
Inglehart, 
professor 
emeritus 
of political science; Jerry Lou, 
founder and CEO of Everpine 
Capital; and Shunri Guo, CEO 
and co-founder of ParcelX.

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