“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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