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The National Committee on United States-China Relations The National Committee on United States-China Relations S E National U.S.-China Public T Committee Labor Law Intellectuals Educational Cooperation Program Exchanges Project Inaugural Conference O 19 20 24 N Successful National Committee Gala Honors Four Business Leaders 4 Winter / Spring 2006 Volume 34, Number 1 joined his mentor (his Chinese had National Committee apparently passed muster!) to practice law at Coudert Brothers and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in Welcomes New President New York, Hong Kong and Beijing. In 2 Beijing, Steve helped do some of the legal work for the first foreign investments into China. In 1983, he moved to the investment banking S by Carla Hills world, eventually becoming managing director at Lehman Brothers and E president of Lehman Brothers Asia, A sixty-second conversation in 1970 specialist in the United States, advised supervising the company’s offices in Hong Kong, Korea, China, Taiwan, T launched Steve Orlins’ China-related him, “Your Chinese is not good journey as a student, diplomat, lawyer, enough. Go to Taiwan and get fluent!” Thailand, the Philippines and investment banker and investor to his Steve followed Jerry’s advice, and after Singapore. His favorite deal from this O current post as National Committee 15 months of language study in Taiwan, period was advising the consortium of president. As the Vietnam War he entered Harvard Law School. He companies that constructed the N heightened political awareness on received his J.D. with a concentration Eastern Harbor Tunnel, Hong Kong’s college campuses, including his home in Chinese law in 1976. second cross-harbor tunnel and the first base at Harvard College, he became Steve subsequently joined the State major financing arrangement in the interested in studying Vietnamese Department’s Office of the Legal colony whose payback extended language and history. But in that sixty- Advisor. When Herbert Hansell, then beyond the reversion on July 1, 1997. second conversation, visiting professor Legal Advisor, learned there was a In 1991, Steve returned to the Alex Woodside instead steered him China specialist in the office, he United States and his boyhood home toward Chinese, saying that much of brought Steve onto the legal team that on Long Island. He became deeply Vietnamese history was written in helped establish diplomatic relations involved in local politics and ran as the Chinese and that, in the long run, with the People’s Republic of China. Democratic candidate for Congress in Chinese would prove much more Steve was involved in drafting the New York’s third congressional district. useful. Another China specialist was Taiwan Relations Act and the “I had a strong vision of where I born and, six weeks later, Steve was on establishment of the American thought the country should go and his way to Stanford University to start Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the non- believed representing my boyhood intensive language studies. profit corporation to carry on unofficial home, where that vision was born and Two long-time National Committee relations with Taiwan. (The cancelled still shared by many, was what I should directors – Jerome Cohen and Herbert check for the fee to incorporate the do. 116,915 voters shared my vision; Hansell – also played influential roles AIT now sits on Steve’s bookshelf in unfortunately, 124,727 shared my in Steve’s career. Armed with a degree the NCUSCR office.) opponent’s.” from Harvard in modern Chinese After the establishment of dip- The next phase of Steve’s career was history, Steve planned to pursue a lomatic relations, China allowed a in the private equity field, with the firm career in Chinese law. But Professor limited number of foreign lawyers into AEA Investors. A few years later, the Jerry Cohen, the leading Chinese law China, including Jerry Cohen. Steve Washington-based Carlyle Group recruited Steve to create and run its new Asia fund. This gave him the opportunity to return to Hong Kong and to turn his energies to such di- verse transactions as the purchase of Koram Bank (Korea’s sixth-largest bank) and the establishment of Taiwan Broadband Communications, one of the largest cable television companies in Taiwan. Steve joined us as president of the National Committee on May 1, 2005. We are privileged and excited to have a leader with his expertise, experience, enthusiasm and in-depth knowledge of Right: the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, as Steve Orlins chats with well as their people and language. He PRC graduate students at also brings a passion for U.S.-China the Committee’s Foreign relations that is inspiring to all who Policy Colloquium in meet him. Welcome aboard, Steve! I Washington, D.C. A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT in Gansu province, where over 25 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. A discussion in Lanzhou with Liu Xiaoming, the deputy governor of U.S.-China Congressional the province and former deputy chief of mission at the PRC embassy in 3 Washington, helped to put a human face on the development of the west – as did a N Working Group Visit to China pick-up basketball game with local students! From Lanzhou our delegation O flew to Jiuquan, the beginning of the Great Wall and the staging area for our four-hour drive across the Gobi Dessert to T the manned space launch facility. Space agency representatives explained that we E were the first foreign delegation to tour the facility since manned space flight S began in China and that the visit was personally approved by the Minister of Defense. Congressman Feeney, whose district includes the Kennedy Space Center, concluded that the Chinese facility was more modern and practical than ours. After another four-hour drive across the Gobi we returned to Jiuquan, flew back to Lanzhou and then im- mediately on to Shanghai. A day which began at 6:00 AM with our setting out Left: across the Gobi to see the space center ended at 2:00 AM in Shanghai – so much Rep. Mark Kirk, for Congressional junkets! co-chair of the U.S.- Among the highlights of our 30-hour China Congressional stay in Shanghai were meetings with the Working Group, and mayor, chairman of the Municipal Wu Bangguo, CNOOC’s failed acquisition of strated that our Chinese hosts clearly People’s Congress, U.S. counsel general, chairman of the UNOCAL last summer as a result of understood the significance of the and the American business community; a National People’s Congressional objections is a vivid Congress in U.S.-China relations and Sunday morning church service; and a Congress. reminder of the importance of the appreciate the role that the Working seven-minute ride to the airport on Congress in U.S.-China relations. As I Group is playing in educating members Shanghai’s new magnetic levitation train. said at our November Members’ about China. In Beijing, we met with the Like all of the senior Chinese officials Meeting, since too many on Capitol Hill chairman of the National People’s that we met, Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng do not adequately understand China or Congress (NPC), Wu Bangguo, who is was well-briefed, helpful and extremely U.S.-China relations, there is a valuable second in rank only to President Hu impressive. One of the lighter moments role for the National Committee to Jintao; the ministers of defense and of the trip was the Mayor’s surprise that play in Congressional and leadership commerce; the secretary general of the the U.S. wants to play an exhibition education. NPC and the chairman of the its Foreign soccer game in Shanghai. “We certainly The NCUSCR took a major step in Affairs Committee; the governor of should be able to field a team to compete this direction in January when, for the first Gansu; and the vice ministers of the with the Americans.” And the time in many years, it arranged, funded National Development and Reform Congressmen’s surprise, “Against the and accompanied a Congressional Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Chicago Bears?” And my insertion, “We delegation to China. The delegation was Affairs. In addition, the minister are talking about olive ball.” And the composed of the two co-chairs of the counselor/head of Congressional relations mayor’s immediate understanding, “So newly formed bipartisan U.S.-China in the PRC embassy in Washington we will have to reline our field.” If the Congressional Working Group, Mark Kirk accompanied us the entire trip. The Seahawks and the Bears play an (R-Ill.) and Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), along Congressmen also welcomed op- exhibition game in Shanghai in the next with a member of the Group, Tom portunities to hear the frontline few years, we certainly can say the Feeney (R-Fla.). I accompanied the perspectives of NCUSCR members, the National Committee helped set it up. delegation on the eight-day visit to American business community, the U.S. Our final day and a half was spent in Beijing, Lanzhou, Jiuquan, Shanghai and ambassador and embassy staff. Hong Kong, where the Congressmen Hong Kong. The Congressmen seized the chance found the differing views between the The quality of the meetings and to look beyond the growth and dynamism seniority of our interlocutors demon- of Beijing and Shanghai during two days continued on back cover Successful National Committee Gala Honors Four Business Leaders 4 S Four leaders in the fields of communications, finance and education E were recognized for their outstanding contributions to U.S.-China relations at T the National Committee’s Gala Dinner, held on September 21 in New York City. O Five hundred and fifty guests were on hand to honor Karen Elliott House, publisher of The Wall Street Journal and N senior vice president of Dow Jones & Co., Inc; Liu Chuanzhi, chairman of Legend Holdings Limited and founder of Lenovo; Frederick W.
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