Committee of 100 meeting focuses on Sino-US ties

Cheng Siwei (middle left), former Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress of China and Chairman of the International Finance Forum, exchanges his views on Sino-US relations in a changing global environment with Douglas H. Paal (middle right), Vice President of Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Cheng Li (right), Director of Research at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center, with Andrew Ross, the business columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle, as the moderator, during a panel discussion of the ongoing 19th Annual Conference of the Committee of 100 Thursday in San Francisco, California. The conference held from April 7 to 10, covers various topics related to the Sino-US relations ranging from trade, Taiwan problem, anti-terrorism, nuclear nonproliferation and the climate change. Committee of 100, founded in early 1990, dedicates to speaking on behalf of Americans of Chinese heritage, on both domestic and international issues. [chinadaily.com.cn]