U.S.-China Relations: The Outlook for Business

John Frisbie, President, The US-China Business Council

China Business Committee, Trade & Investment Committee, Financial Services Committee, Energy Committee an

The US-China Business Council President John Frisbie will present his and USCBC views on developments in Washington, ongoing bilateral initiatives including the important Strategic Economic Dialogue and the Joint Commission on Commerce & Trade, and ongoing U.S.-China business issues as experienced in the work of USCBC's Washington, Beijing and Shanghai offices. He will share his own views of the U.S.-China relationship, the current mood in Congress and how that might affect the trade relationship, along with Chinese reactions. Frisbie will be fresh from a week of high-level meetings with U.S. and PRC government officials and USCBC members in Beijing and Shanghai.

The USCBC is a private, non-profit, non-partisan, member-supported organization, and the principal organization of U.S. corporations engaged in business relations with the People's Republic of China. Founded in 1973 as the National Council for U.S.-China Trade, USCBC originally served the early efforts of U.S. business in China in the absence of formal diplomatic relations between the two nations. With the massive growth of U.S.-China economic engagement since the end of the 1970s, USCBC has continued to assist firms entering the field for the first time, but increasingly the bulk of its work has served the interests and needs of U.S. firms with well-established commercial relationships in China. Headquartered in Washington, DC, USCBC also serves its corporate members from field offices in Beijing and Shanghai. USCBC provides extensive, tailored business advisory services on a wide range of business interests and concerns to individual member companies. Its meetings and programs, in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, provide both broad-gauge and highly business-relevant information, and offer companies the chance to share ideas and experiences as well.

Members of the China Business, Trade & Investment, Financial Services, Energy and Law committees are welcome. Hong Kong members of the USCBC are invited to join us for this joint buffet luncheon discussion. Registration limited to first 50.