“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. 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