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SUMMARY:China Town Hall | Amb to China Nicholas Burns\, China Project's Jeremy Goldkorn
DESCRIPTION:Register Now \n \nREGISTER NOW\nThe Tennessee World Affairs Council\n\n\nNational Council on U.S.-China Relations\nPresents via Zoom\nChina Town Hall\n\nAmbassador Nicholas Burns\nUnited States Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China\nwith\n\nJeremy Goldkorn\nEditor in Chief\, The China Project\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 11\, 2023\nVIA ZOOM\n5:30 Local Broadcast with Jeremy Goldkorn\n6:00-7:00 National China Town Hall with Ambassador Burns \nChina Town Hall | Oct 11 | Amb Nicholas Burns & Jeremy Goldkorn\n \n\n\n\nAbout Ambassador Nicholas Burns \nNicholas Burns is Ambassador of the United States of America to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).  Nominated by President Biden\, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in December 2021. \nAs Ambassador\, he leads a team of experienced\, dedicated\, and diverse public servants from forty-seven U.S. government agencies and sub-agencies at the U.S. Mission in China\, including at the Embassy in Beijing and at the American Consulates in Shanghai\, Guangzhou\, Wuhan\, and Shenyang.  He oversees the Mission’s interaction with the PRC on the full range of political\, security\, economic\, commercial\, consular\, and many other issues that shape this critical relationship. \nAmbassador Burns is on a public service leave from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government where he was Goodman Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations until 2021 and founded the school’s Future of Diplomacy Project. \nHe has had a long career in American diplomacy serving six Presidents and nine Secretaries of State.  Most recently\, he was a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Board of Secretary of State John Kerry (2014-2017). \nWhile serving at the Department of State as a career Foreign Service Officer\, he was Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2005-2008) where he led numerous negotiations\, including on the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Deal\, a long-term military assistance agreement with Israel\, and on Iran’s nuclear program. \nAs Ambassador to NATO (2001-2005)\, he led U.S. efforts in Brussels on 9/11 when the Alliance invoked Article 5 of the NATO Treaty for the first time in its history.  He managed the combined State-Defense Department U.S. Mission when NATO accepted seven new members in Eastern Europe and embarked on missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. \nHe was Ambassador to Greece (1997-2001) and prior to that\, served as State Department Spokesperson (1995-1997). \nHe worked on the National Security Council at the White House (1990-1995) where he was Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director for Russia\, Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs and Director for Soviet Affairs for President George H.W. Bush during the collapse of the USSR. \nAmbassador Burns began his Foreign Service career in the Middle East.  He worked at the American Consulate General in Jerusalem (1985-1987) where he coordinated U.S. economic assistance to Palestinians on the West Bank\, at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo\, Egypt (1983-85) and\, as an intern\, at the U.S. Embassy in Nouakchott\, Mauritania (1980). \nHe first visited China in 1988 accompanying Secretary of State George Shultz and then President George H.W. Bush in 1989.  He subsequently made visits to China with Secretaries Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright as Spokesperson\, including during the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the PRC in 1997. \nAs Under Secretary of State\, he worked with the PRC government on a diverse range of issues\, including Afghanistan\, North Korea\, United Nations sanctions against Iran and U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific.  As a private citizen\, he also created and managed an Aspen Strategy Group policy dialogue with the PRC government’s Central Party School. \nBurns co-authored in 2020 with Ambassadors Marc Grossman and Marcie Ries a major study on the future of American diplomacy.  They called for fundamental reforms to strengthen the Foreign and Civil Service and to renew our country’s commitment to diplomacy. \nAmbassador Burns has received fifteen honorary degrees\, the Presidential Distinguished Service Award and the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award.  He is the recipient of many other awards\, including from the governments of Estonia\, Latvia\, Lithuania\, and Kosovo. \nBurns is a graduate of Boston College (BA History 1978) and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (MA International Relations 1980). \nHe is a proud New Englander and passionate supporter of the Red Sox\, Celtics\, Patriots\, Bruins\, and Revolution. \nHe is married to Elizabeth Baylies.  They have three daughters and two grandchildren. \nAbout Jeremy Goldkorn \nJeremy Goldkorn is editor-in-chief of The China Project\, a daily newspaper about China that publishes a website\, email newsletters\, and the Sinica Podcast\, which Goldkorn co-founded in 2010. He moved from his hometown of Johannesburg\, South Africa to China in 1995 and became managing editor of Beijing’s first independent English-language entertainment magazine. He later edited and founded several other publications\, including the website Danwei\, which tracked Chinese media\, markets\, politics and business\, which was acquired in 2013 by the Financial Times. While in China\, he lived in a workers dormitory\, produced a documentary film about African soccer players in Beijing\, and rode a bicycle from Peshawar to Kathmandu via Kashgar and Lhasa. He moved to Nashville Tennessee in 2015. He is a graduate of the University of Cape Town.  \n\nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS \n \nTHANKS TO DISTINGUISHED VISITING SPEAKER SERIES PARTNERS \n \nTHANKS TO TNWAC CORPORATE MEMBERS FOR SUPPORT TO EDUCATION OUTREACH PROGRAMS \n \nTHANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \n \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \nA PROUD MEMBER OF THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS OF AMERICA SINCE 2007 \n \nTennessee World Affairs Council Profile | Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee \nMember\, Center for Nonprofit Management \nTHE MISSION of the nonprofit\, nonpartisan Tennessee World Affairs Council is to promote international awareness\, understanding and connections to enhance the region’s global stature and to prepare Tennesseans to thrive in our increasingly complex and connected world. \nTHE VISION of  the Tennessee World Affairs Council is a well-informed community that thinks critically about the world and the impact of global events.
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