On May 14 and 15, 2015, the 2015 U.S.-China Civil Strategic Dialogue was successfully held in Washington, USA by the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding (formerly known as Institute for China-U.S. People-to-People Exchange)) of Peking University and the Brookings Institution, a famous American think tank. The theme of the Track II Dialogue is China-U.S. relations and international order. In the two-day dialogue, experts from China and the United States held in-depth discussions on such topics as China and the United States’ view on international order, interests and responsibilities shared by China and the United States, potential challenges to the global order, security in the Asia-Pacific and the future international order, similarities and differences between China and the United States in their visions for East Asia’s politics, economy and security architecture, opportunities and challenges for the development of China-U.S. relations, U.S.-China cooperation on climate change, clean energy and environmental protection, comparison of economic agendas and modern governance systems between China and the United States, crisis management and prevention mechanisms, U.S. economic situation and 2016 presidential campaign. The Dialogue also specially invited officials from the U.S. Treasury in charge of the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue to give a briefing on the 7th China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue in 2015.
American officials, experts and scholars included Rory MacFarquhar, Senior Director for Economic Affairs at the National Security Council of White House, Ryan Hass, Director of China Affairs at the National Security Council, Robert Dohner, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia at the United States Department of Treasury, Christopher Adams, Senior Coordinator for Strategic and Economic Dialogues at the United States Department of Treasury, Bruce Jones, Senior Vice President of Brookings Institution, Ken Lieberthal, former Senior Director for Asia at the National Security Council and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings Institution, Jeff Bader, former Senior Director for Asia at the National Security Council and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Richard C.Bush III, former Chair of American Institute in Taiwan and Director of Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) of the Brookings Institution, Li Cheng, Director of John L. Thornton China Center of Brookings Institution, Jonathan Pollack, former Director and Senior Fellow of John L. Thornton China Center of Brookings Institution, Qi Ye, Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy and Professor of School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University, Thomas Wright, Director of International Order and Strategy Project at the Brookings Institution, David Dollar, William Glaston and Barry Bosworth, Senior Fellows at the Brookings Institution. Chinese experts included Jia Qingguo, Dean of the School of International Studies, Peking University, and Executive Director of the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding of Peking University, Wang Min, Center for Major Policies, Tsinghua University, Sun Zhe, Tsinghua Center for U.S.-China Relations, Ma Weihua, former President of China Merchants Bank and President of Wing Lung Bank in Hong Kong, and Wang Dong, Associate Professor of the School of International Studies, Peking University, and Executive Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding of Peking University.
During the visit in the United States, Chinese delegation also visited Elaine Lan Chao, former United States Secretary of Labor, Susan Thornton, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, Drew Thompson, Director for China Affairs at the United States Department of Defense, and David Lampton, Director of the China Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University, had in-depth exchanges on issues related to China-U.S. relations. Brookings Institution is the top think tank in the world and Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding of Peking University is a base of the Ministry of Education. They provide academic and intellectual support for the high-level consultation mechanism on China-U.S. people-to-people exchanges. The “U.S.-China Civil Strategic Dialogue” mechanism has been included in the list of outcomes of China-U.S. people-to-people exchanges. This is the third round of dialogue since 2012. Through frank and in-depth exchanges, both sides have played a sound role in strengthening mutual understanding, increasing trust and dispelling doubts. The two sides were satisfied with the results of the Dialogue and expressed that they would further promote the construction of the dialogue mechanism between Peking University and the Brookings Institution.
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