Jun 18, 2015
On June 18,2015, Jiangsu Association for Friendship and International Exchanges (JAFIE)held the Yangtze River International Forum on Sino-US Relations at the meetinghall of Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress. Prof. David Lampton, Director ofDepartment of Chinese Studies, School of Advanced International Studies of theJohns Hopkins University, was invited to deliver a keynote speech about thestatus quo and prospect of Sino-US Relations. Prof. Lampton, as a leading Chinawatcher in the United States, once served as Chairman of National Committee onUnited States-China Relations for as long as a decade and is now serving asnewly-elected Chairman of Asia Foundation. Lin Xiangguo, Chairman of JAFIE,delivered a speech of welcome and presided over the symposium. Prof. Cai Jiahefrom the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese andAmerican Studies served as the academic host of the symposium. Teng Yong, ExecutiveVice Chairman of JAFIE and Director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of JiangsuProvincial People's Congress, other provincial and municipal leaders of relateddepartments concerned, experts and scholars from Nanjing University andUniversity of International Relations, and partial council members of JAFIEattended the symposium.
