The Center for China-U.S. Cooperation is hosting special guest David R. Stilwell.

David R. Stilwell is the Fox Fellow for Future Pacing Threats at the Air Force Academy. He most recently served as the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2019-2021. He is a 35-year Air Force veteran, beginning as an enlisted Korean linguist in 1980, and retiring in 2015 with the rank of Brigadier General as the Asia advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.  He served multiple tours of duty in Japan and Korea as a linguist, a fighter pilot, and a commander.  He also served as the Defense Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 2011-2013. He earned a B.S. in History from the U.S. Air Force Academy (1987), and a master’s degree in Asian studies and Chinese language from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1988).

The Center for China-U.S. Cooperation is inviting special guest Patricia M. Kim to speak.

Patricia M. Kim is a fellow at the Brookings Institution. A leading expert on Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian security and politics, Dr. Kim co-leads Brookings’ Global China Project. Before joining Brookings, Dr. Kim was a senior China specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace. She has held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program. Dr. Kim’s research and commentary have been featured in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other major outlets. She is a frequent advisor to U.S. policymakers and has testified before the House Intelligence Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University and a B.A. with highest distinction in Political Science and Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley

The Center for China-U.S. Cooperation is hosting special guest Professor Dingli Shen.

Dr. Shen Dingli is a professor emeritus, former executive dean at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies, former Director of the Center for American Studies, and Honorary Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.  His research and publications cover China-US security relations, regional security and international strategy, arms control, nonproliferation, and foreign and defense policy of China and the US.  He received his Ph.D. in physics from Fudan in 1989 and did a postdoc in arms control at Princeton University from 1989 to 1991.  He was an Eisenhower Fellow in 1996 and advised in 2002 the then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on his strategic planning for the second term.  He is on the Global Council of the Asia Society, and the International Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear-Nonproliferation and Disarmament.

Featuring:

Ambassador Ramond Burghardt
President of Pacific Century Institute

Ambassador Ramond Burghardt served during the Bush and Obama administrations as Chairman of the Washington Office of the American Institute of Taiwan (AIT) from 2006 to 2016 and Director of AIT Taipei from 1999 to 2001. For many years, Amb. Burghardt was one of the leading Asian experts in the US State Department. He was Ambassador to Vietnam (2001-04), Consul General in Shanghai (1997-99), and Deputy Chief of Mission in Manila (1993-96) and Seoul (1990-93). In the 1980s, he was Special Assistant to President Reagan for Latin American Affairs. He is a consultant to the Institute for Defense Analyses advises major companies on Asian affairs and serves on for-profit and non-profit boards. He is a frequent speaker on US relations with Taiwan, China, and Vietnam. Amb. Burghardt is a graduate of Columbia College and did graduate study at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs.

Mr. Bill Shih-chang Huang
Director General of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Denver

Mr. Bill Shih-chang Huang is the Director General of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Denver. Based in Denver, the office is the consulate general equivalent of Taiwan in the Great Plains and Mountain West, serving the states of Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota.

A career diplomat, Mr. Huang has previously served in Atlanta, Georgia, the Republic of Palau in the Pacific, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and the Caribbean Island of Saint Lucia. On home assignments, he has overseen media relations, e-Diplomacy, North American and European Affairs in the Foreign Service. His main focus of interest lies in international development cooperation, public diplomacy as well as trade and investment relations. Mr. Huang received a B.A. in English Literature and Linguistics at National Taiwan Normal University, an M.A. in Journalism at National Taiwan University, and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School.

Moderated by: Suisheng Zhao, University of Denver

Sie Complex - Room 1020 – Forum
March 18, 2025
5:30 - 7:00 pm MT
Meal is provided

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This Cultural Diplomacy event was originally scheduled for October 11th, but was postponed due to illness.

Join the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies in partnership with the School of Art and Art History for an evening of art, religion, and identity! This year's Lanius Lecture speaker is artist Maryam Taghavi, an Iranian-American artist who focuses her work on language, calligraphy, religion, and the intersection of these themes with identity and community. With opening remarks from Dr. Andrea Stanton (Korbel, Religious Studies) and Dr. Sarah Magnatta (SAAH), the evening will feature Taghavi's works as well as an open Q&A with the audience. Refreshments will be served.

China’s rapid transition toward a downward trajectory will pose a unique set of national security challenges for the United States that could prove even more difficult than those posed by China’s rise.

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