8th U.S.-China
High-Level Political Party
Leaders Dialogue
A
delegation of
U.S. Democratic
and Republican
Party leaders and U.S.
business leaders met
with senior Communist
Party of China (CPC)
officials and Chinese
business leaders in
Beijing, China, on May
6-8, 2015. This visit is
part of the U.S.-China
High-Level Political
Party Leaders Dialogue,
organized by the EastWest Institute and the
International Department of the Central
Committee of the CPC
(IDCPC). Launched in
2010, the U.S.-China
High-Level Political
Party Leaders Dialogue
seeks to build understanding and trust
between political elites
from the United States
and China through an
exchange of views on
governance and foreign
policy issues.
This eighth iteration
of the Dialogue represented the highestlevel visit ever to China
by sitting officers of
both major U.S. political parties. It was also
the first-ever Dialogue
visit to China involving
former Cabinet-level
officials from both the
incumbent Obama
administration and the
George W. Bush administration. Ronald Kirk,
former United States
trade representative
and former mayor of
Dallas, and R. James
Nicholson, former
chairman of the Republican National Commit-
tee and former secretary of the Department
of Veterans Affairs, led
the U.S. Democratic
and Republican delegations, respectively. The
Chinese delegation was
led by Wang Jiarui, vice
chairman of the National Committee of the
Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the
minister of IDCPC.
Dialogue sessions
focused on rule of law
and anti-corruption
measures in China and
the United States and
the political landscape
in both countries,
including prospects for
the upcoming 2016 U.S.
presidential election.
Additionally, the U.S.
delegation met with
Wang Qishan, Politburo
Standing Committee
member and secretary
of the Central Commission for Discipline
Inspection, at Zhongnanhai, and Executive
Vice Minister of Foreign
Affairs Zhang Yesui.
For the first time in
the Dialogue’s history,
U.S. and Chinese participants also included
representatives from
U.S. and Chinese corporations, who spoke at
an inaugural U.S.-China
Entrepreneurs Roundtable. The roundtable
focused on trade, investment and other
economic issues in the
bilateral relationship
and corporate perspectives on doing crossPacific business.
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U.S. Participants
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Ronald KIRK
Senior Of Counsel,
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP;
Former U.S. Trade Representative
Robert L. HOLDEN
Chairman,
MidWest US-China Association;
Former Governor, Missouri
Raymond BUCKLEY
Vice Chair,
Democratic National Committee;
Chair, New Hampshire Democratic Party
R. James NICHOLSON
Senior Counsel, Brownstein Hyatt Farber
Schreck, LLP; Former Chairman, Republican
National Committee; Former Secretary,
Department of Veterans Affairs
Edward W. GILLESPIE
Founder, Ed Gillespie Strategies;
Former Chairman,
Republican National Committee
Anthony W. PARKER
Treasurer,
Republican National Committee
Robert E. FERGUSON
Senior Vice President,
Global Public Policy, General Motors
Albert XIE
Vice President,
Public Policy and Government Relations,
General Motors China
Timothy STRATFORD
Managing Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
(Beijing); Former Assistant
U.S. Trade Representative
Will SONG
General Manager and Chairman,
Global Surgery Group, Johnson & Johnson China
Jeffrey QUE
Vice President, Government Affairs and
Policy, Johnson & Johnson China
John K. HURLEY
Founder and Managing Partner,
Cavalry Asset Management;
Director, EastWest Institute
Steven J. LUND
Executive Chairman, Board of Directors,
Nu Skin Enterprises; Executive Director,
Nourish the Children, Nu Skin Enterprises
Keynes LI
Chief Representative of Beijing, Nu Skin Greater
China; Vice President, Business Support &
Regulatory Excellence, Nu Skin Greater China
David J. FIRESTEIN
Perot Fellow and Vice President,
Strategic Trust-Building Initiative and
Track 2 Diplomacy, EastWest Institute
Chinese Participants
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WANG Jiarui
Vice Chairman, National Committee, Chinese
People’s Political Consultative Conference;
Minister, IDCPC
XU Lyuping
Vice Minister, IDCPC
WANG Xiaohui
Vice Minister, CPC Central Committee Policy
Research Office; Vice Minister, CPC Central
Committee Publicity Department
YUAN Shuhong
Vice Minister,
Legislative Affairs Office, State Council
FU Kui
Vice Minister, National Corruption
Prevention Bureau of China;
Director General, International Cooperation
Department, Central Commission for
Discipline Inspection
HU Yanxin
President,
China Economic Cooperation Center
FAN Bi
Deputy Director General, Department of General Affairs I,
Research Office, State Council
HE Jianwu
Deputy Director, Research Office,
Department of Development Strategy and Regional Economy,
Development Research Center, State Council
ZHANG Baolin
President, China Changan
Automobile Group Co., Ltd.
Herbert Hongbo CHEN
Chief Operating Officer, Tsinghua
University Science Park (TusPark) Co., Ltd.
Jerome MA
Vice President, Corporate Affairs,
JD Group
GAO Jin
Boarding Director, Beijing Jing-Meng Stem
Cell Technology Co., Ltd.
ZHOU Yuanxin
Product Director,
Beijing Compunicate Technologies Inc.
Sabrina LI
Chief Executive Officer,
Coyote Bioscience Co., Ltd.
U.S. Delegation Activities
Dialogue with senior Communist
Party of China officials,
led by Wang Jiarui
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Meeting with Wang Qishan,
member of the Politburo Standing
Committee and secretary of the
Central Commission for
Discipline Inspection
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U.S.-China Entrepreneurs
Roundtable, co-hosted by the
IDCPC and the China Economic
Cooperation Center
Dinner celebrating the five-year
anniversary of the U.S.-China
High-Level Political Party
Leaders Dialogue
Meeting with Zhang Yesui,
executive vice minister of
foreign affairs
Visit to Sina and
Zhongguancun-Innoway,
a start-up incubator
(Photo source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China)
(Photo source: China News Service)
Acknowledgements
Host and Partner Organization:
International Department, Central Committee, Communist Party of China (IDCPC)
Special thanks to our sponsors for their support of the U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue:
Sarah and Ross Perot, Jr.
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