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Featuring:

Kimberly Ellis, Partner, Monument Advocacy

J.D. Grom, Executive Director, New Democrat Coalition

Robert Moran, Partner, Brunswick Insight

Bruce Stokes, Director of Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center

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Featuring:

Ambassador Darci Vetter, Former Chief Agricultural Negotiator, USTR; Vice Chair of Agriculture, Food and Trade, Edelman

David Dollar, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center

Bonnie Glaser, Senior Advisor for Asia and Director, China Power Project, CSIS

David Goldman, Principal, Asia Times

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Featuring:

Clete Willems, Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economics and Deputy NEC Director at The White House in a discussion with Michael J. Smart, Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors

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A panel of experts participated in a debate to help WITA members understand the underlying issues and arguments about the importance of bilateral trade deficits in charting a new course for US trade policy.

Featuring

Caroline Freund, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Peter Morici, University of Maryland

Robert Shapiro, Sonecon, LLC

Moderator: Ambassador Peter Allgeier, Nauset Global LLC

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WITA hosted an event to examine the past, present and future directions of US-China trade relations. The panel debated today’s most pressing trade and investment concerns, and how to address them. Industry representatives and government officials cited opportunities to deepen trade ties, prevailing barriers and highlighted the countries’ interdependency.

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Special Guest: John Pomfret

Discussion led by: Shawn Donnan, Financial Times

Panel I Discussants: Melanie Hart, Center for American Progress

Clay Lowery, Rock Creek Global Advisors

Rob Scott, Economic Policy Institute

Moderator: Dorothy Dwoskin, Microsoft

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The U.S-China relationship is one of the most important in global trade policy.  WITA hosted a high level panel discussion of China, including critical international trade, economic and business matters, at this timely event in advance of 8th joint meeting of the US–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.

The event had an Armchair Discussion with Catherine A. Novelli, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. The panel featured: Wendy Cutler, Vice President and Managing Director, Asia Society Policy Institute and former acting Deputy US Trade Representative; Frank Lavin, CEO and Founder, Export Now; Cheng Li, Director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution; and Charles Freeman III, Forbes-Tate, as the Moderator.

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