美中政策基金会十七周年 In Celebration of the 17th Anniversary of the U.S. - China Policy Foundation 2012 China in Washington Annual Gala Dinner Tuesday, December 11, 2012 The Mayflower Renaissance Hotel Washington, D.C. China in Washington A dinner honoring service to U.S.-China relations and celebrating the 17th anniversary of the U.S.-China Policy Foundation TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2012 RECEPTION Chinese Ballroom, 6:30 PM DINNER & PROGRAM Grand Ballroom, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Mayflower Renaissance Hotel 1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 This evening has been made possible by the generous support of our sponsors: Lead Sponsors The Hershey Company The Starr Foundation S. C. Wang Foundation sponsors Air China WI Harper Group China Daily USA Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office FedEx J.R. Simplot supportors Bank of China, New York Branch Mr. John Chen China Telecom (Americas) Corporation Industrial and Commercial Bank of China The Coca-Cola Company The Honorable Barbara Hackman Franklin Huawei Technologies USA United Airlines Mr. Henry Tang Wanxiang America Corporation Program Welcome Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Former U.S. Assisatant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Dinner Service KEYNOTE ADDRESS The Honorable Zbigniew K. Brzezinski Counselor and Trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former U.S. National Security Advisor Remarks Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Awards Presentation Lifetime Achievement in China-U.S. Relations award Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong Secretary-General, Boao Forum for Asia; Former Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Lifetime Achievement in U.S.-China Relations award Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States; Former U.S. Ambassador to China China Media Leadership award Mr. Larry Lee President, China Daily USA closing Remarks Dr. Chi Wang Chairman, The U.S.-China Policy Foundation 2012 Gala Speaker The Honorable Zbigniew K. Brzezinski Counselor & Trustee, Center For Strategic & International Studies Zbigniew Brzezinski is a counselor and trustee for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of American foreign policy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. From 1977 to 1981, he served as national security advisor to the President of the United States. In 1981, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for “his role in the normalization of US–Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States.” Brzezinski has served as an international advisor to many major US and global corporations and has been a frequent participant in annual business/trade conventions. He is also a frequent public speaker as well as a commentator on major domestic and foreign TV programs, and a contributor to domestic and foreign newspapers and journals. He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State; in 1985, a member of the President’s Chemical Warfare Commission; from 1987 to 1988, a member of the NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy; and from 1987 to 1989, a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a presidential commission to oversee US intelligence activities. From 1973 to 1976, Brzezinski served as director of the Trilateral Commission; in 1968 he served in the presidential campaign as chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force; and in the 1976 presidential campaign he served as principal foreign policy advisor to Jimmy Carter. In 1988, he served as co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force. Brzezinski is a past member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, Council on Foreign Relations, Atlantic Council, and the National Endowment for Democracy, and a former co-chairman American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus. In 2004 he was co-chair of the Council on Foreign Relations, a sponsored independent task force. Brzezinski served on the faculty of Columbia University from 1960 to 1989, and on the faculty of Harvard University from 1953 to 1960. His most recent book is America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy, co-authored with Brent Scowcroft and moderated by David Ignatius. He is also the author of Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower; The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership; The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives; The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20th Century; Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century; Game Plan: How to Conduct the U.S.-Soviet Contest; Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Advisor, 1977-1981; The Fragile Blossom: Crisis and Change in Japan; Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technotronic Era; The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict; and many other books and articles in numerous United States and Foreign academic journals. Brzezinski has received many honors and awards. In 1995, he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest civilian decoration, for his contributions to recovery by Poland of its independence. He was also awarded the highest civilian decorations from the governments of Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Hungary. He received honorary degrees from Georgetown University, Williams College, Fordham University, College of the Holy Cross, Alliance College, the Catholic University of Lublin, Warsaw University, the University of Tbilisi, the University of Vilnius, the Ukrainian Free University, and the Jagiellonian University. He received Honorary Citizenship from the City of Lviv; the Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences of Harvard University; the Hubert Humphrey Award for Public Service from the American Political Science Association; the U Thant Award; and the David Rockefeller International Leadership Award; as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ford Foundation. In 1969, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1963, he was selected by the United States Chamber of Congress as one of America’s Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year. 2012 Gala Honoree LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN CHINA-U.S. RELATIONS AWARD Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong Secretary-General of Boao Forum for Asia and Former Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Mr. Zhou Wenzhong, born in Jiangsu Province in August 1945, is a university graduate. 1970-1973 Staff member of the Beijing Diplomatic Service Bureau of the People’s Republic of China 1973-1975 Student at Bath University and London School of Economics of the United Kingdom 1975-1978 Staff member of the Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China 1978-1983 Attaché and then Third Secretary of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America 1983-1987 Second Secretary, Deputy Division Director and then Division Director of the Department of Translation and Interpretation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China 1987-1990 Deputy Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco in the United States of America 1990-1993 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Barbados and to Antigua and Barbuda 1993-1994 Deputy Director General of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China 1994-1995 Consul General (Ambassadorial Rank) of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles in the United States of America 1995-1998 Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America 1998-2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Commonwealth of Australia 2001-2003 Assistant Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China 2003-2005 Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China 2005-2010 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of to the United States of America 2010- Secretary-General, Boao Forum for Asia Vice President, China-US People’s Friendship Association 2012 Gala Honoree LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS AWARD Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy Director of Kissinger Institute on China and the United States; Former U.S. Ambassador to China Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy is Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He retired from the Foreign Service in January 2001 after a career spanning 45 years with the U.S. Department of State. A fluent Chinese speaker, Mr. Roy spent much of his Foreign Service career in East Asia, where his assignments included Bangkok (twice), Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing (twice), Singapore, and Jakarta. He also specialized in Soviet affairs and served in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Before taking up Russian studies, he was one of the first two Foreign Service Officers to study Mongolian. Mr. Roy rose to become a three-time ambassador, serving as the top U.S. envoy in Singapore (1984-86), the People’s Republic of China (1991-95), and Indonesia (1996-99). In 1996, he was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service. Ambassador Roy’s final post with the State Department was as Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research. Following his retirement from the State Department in January 2001, Ambassador Roy joined Kissinger Associates, Inc., a strategic consulting firm, where he served as Managing Director and later as Vice Chairman. He joined the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in September 2008 to head the newly created Kissinger Institute but continues as a Senior Adviser to Kissinger Associates.