Monday, September 25, 2006
2201 C St., N.W., Loy Henderson Conference Room, U.S. Department of State

1:00-1:45 Registration - Enter from 23rd Street

1:45-2:00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Dr. Marc J. Susser, The Historian, U. S. Department of State

2:00-2:30 Scheduled Keynote Speaker: Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

2:30-4:15 Scheduled Panel of Former Diplomats and Government Officials

Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, U. S. Air Force (ret.), Deputy National Security Advisor, 1973-1975; National Security Advisor, 1975-1977

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor, 1977-1981

Ambassador Winston S. Lord (ret.), Member of the National Security Council Staff, 1969-1973; Special Assistant to Henry Kissinger, 1970-1973; Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, 1973-1977

Ambassador Charles W. (Chas.) Freeman, Jr. (ret.), Office of Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, 1971-1973; Director for Chinese Affairs, Department of State, 1979-1981

Professor W. Richard Smyser, Operations Staff, National Security Council, 1970-1971 and 1973-1975; Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Secretary for Refugee Programs, Department of State, 1980-1981

Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2201 C St., N.W., Loy Henderson Conference Room, U.S. Department of State

8:30-9:15 Registration and Continental Breakfast - Enter from 23rd Street

9:15-9:30 Welcome

9:30-10:15 Scheduled Keynote speaker, Dr. Philip D. Zelikow, Counselor of the U.S. Department of State

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-12:15 Session 1: Roundtable - Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1972, volume XVII, China and Scholarly Interpretations of Establishing Relations with China, 1969-1980

Professor Steven Phillips, Department of History, Towson University (Chair)

Professor Chen Jian, Department of History, Cornell University

Professor Warren I. Cohen, Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

James Mann, FPI Author-in-Residence, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

12:15-1:45 Lunch

1:45-3:15 Session 2

Chair: Dr. Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

"Musical Diplomacy in the Opening of China, 1971-1972," Professor Adam Cathcart, Department of History, Hiram College

"Communication and Miscommunication in Sino-Soviet-American Relations, 1969," Professor Lorenz Lüthi, Department of History, McGill University

"The Romanian Efforts to Facilitate a Sino-American Rapprochement, 1969-1971," Mircea Munteanu, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars/The George Washington University

Comments: Professor Gregg Brazinsky, Assistant Professor of History and International Relations, The George Washington University

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-5:15 Session 3

Chair: Dr. Ding Xinghao, President, Shanghai Association of American Studies and Shanghai Institute of American Studies

"Mobilizing for War: China's Limited Ability to Cope with the Soviet Threat, 1969-1972," Professor David Bachman, School of International Studies, University of Washington

"Between Historical Determinism and Anxiety: The Soviet Union and Sino-American Rapprochement, 1969-1973," Dr. Bernd Schaefer, German Historical Institute

"From Zhenbao Island to Beijing: the 1969 Sino-Soviet Border Conflict and U.S.-China Relations," Professor Dong Wang, Department of History and Political Science, York College of Pennsylvania

"The Sino-American Rapprochement and Chinese-Vietnamese Relations," Professor Qiang Zhai, Department of History, Auburn University Montgomery

Comments: Professor Thomas Schwartz, Department of History, Vanderbilt University

Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1957 E St., N.W., Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University (This portion of the conference is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation)

9:00 - 10:15 Session 1

Chair: Professor Hope M. Harrison, History Department and Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University

"U.S. Relations with the People's Republic of China, 1969-1974: The Polish Perspective," Malgorzata Gnoinska, The George Washington University

"Economic Problems in U.S.-China Rapprochement, 1972-1975," William Burr, National Security Archive

"The Chinese Perspective on the U.S.-China Rapprochement," Professor Chen Jian, Department of History, Cornell University

Comments: Patrick Tyler, Woodrow Wilson Center

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:45 Session 2

Chair: Dr. Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center

"Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Carter Approach to China: `The United States Has Made Up Its Mind'," Professor Patrick Vaughan, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

"The False Shuffle-Cyrus Vance and the China Card," Breck Walker, Department of History, Vanderbilt University

Comments: Professor David Shambaugh, Department of Political Science and Director, China Program, The George Washington University

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:15 Session 3

Chair: Professor Gregg Brazinsky, Department of History, The George Washington University

"`Maximum Flexibility for Peaceful Change': Jimmy Carter, Taiwan and the Recognition of the People's Republic of China," Brian Hilton, Department of History, Texas A&M University

"The Carter Administration and China: The Culmination of Self-Determination as a Human Right," Professor Itai Sneh, Department of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Comments: To Be Determined

2:15-2:30 Break

2:30-4:00 Session 4

Chair: To Be Determined

"The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and Its Effect on Carter's Policy toward China," Todd Rosa, Department of History, The George Washington University

"`The Vietnamese Lesson': The Carter Administration and the Chinese Attack on Vietnam," Professor Scott Kaufman, Francis Marion University

"The Chinese 'Punitive Invasion' of Vietnam as the 'Baptism of Fire' of a New Strategic Partnership With Washington and Its Repercussions on the End of the Cold War," Enrico Maria Fardella, Department of Political Sciences, University of Florence

Comments: Professor James G. Hershberg, Department of History, The George Washington University