The professional association of foreign journalists in Beijing.

The divisions of Cold War area studies are collapsing: rather than the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, and so on, we will have an organic continuum of competition, trade, and conflict encompassed by the Greater Indian Ocean world. China and India compete for rights to natural gas fields in Iran and Burma, even as energy pipelines crisscross Eurasia, with China as a prime destination. As European defense budgets decline, the countries of South and East Asia are building great navies and air forces. China, Vietnam, and other countries compete for control of the energy rich South China Sea, even as Middle Eastern countries face severe crises of central authority. Join one of America’s most prominent strategists as he discusses the new center of geopolitics.

DATE: Dec 15, 2011 (Thursday)
TIME: 4-5:30pm
VENUE: Royal Norwegian Embassy – 1, Dong Yi Jie, Sanlitun 100600 Beijing (enter from 3rd ring road South direction) – 挪威使馆，朝阳区三里屯东一街1号 – phone: +86 10 8531 9600
ENTRANCE: free to FCCC members, 80 rmb at the door to non-members
REGISTRATION: email fcccadmin@gmail.com

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Robert D. Kaplan is a senior fellow at the Center for New America Security and a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic; he is the author of 13 books on foreign affairs, most recently Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and The Future of American Power.

Australia’s recently retired Ambassador to China Geoff Raby talks about life behind the scenes in Beijing, dealing with the Foreign Ministry and tough times during his 4 1/2 year tenure which saw the arrest of Rio Tinto executives and a cooling relations with Canberra before vital repairs were made to the relationship. An economist by trade, Dr Raby will also give his view on the future of China’s economy and the role that Australia plays.

DATE: Dec 13 (Tuesday)
TIME: 6-7:30pm

VENUE: CHANGED! FACE Bar, 26 Dongcaoyuan, Gongti Nanlu 工体南路东草园26号, Beijing, China
ENTRANCE: free to FCCC members, 80 RMB at the door for non-members
REGISTRATION: closed

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Geoff Raby is principle of Geoff Raby & Associates and sits on the board of Fortescue Metals Group, the world’s fourth largest iron ore producer. Prior to Ambassador to China, Raby has also held positions as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade  and Australia’s APEC Ambassador.

“February 2021. It’s a cold blustery morning in Washington. The newly inaugurated president of the United States is on his way to the office of the Chinese managing director of the IMF to sign the agreement under which the IMF will provide 3 trillion dollars in emergency financing to the U.S. and the conditionality to which the U.S. will have to adhere.” Join Arvind Subramanian as he speaks about his new book and China’s growing economic might.

DATE: Dec 14 (Wednesday)
TIME: 10:30am-12:00pm
VENUE: Face Bar, 26 Dongcaoyuan, Gongti Nanlu (behind the Cervantes Institute), 工体南路东草园26号
ENTRANCE: free to FCCC members, 80 rmb on the door to non-members
REGISTRATION: email fcccadmin@gmail.com

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Arvind Subramanian is senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development.
He was assistant director in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. He served at the GATT (1988–92) during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations and taught at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (1999–2000) and at Johns Hopkins’ School for Advanced International Studies (2008–10).

What is the life of an elite North Korean student? What are their dreams? What do they think about “money” and the internet? Join a British professor as he speaks about his unique experience of teaching at Kumseong Number One junior high school in Pyongyang, a school designed to train computer programmers and scientists, with students recruited from all over the country.

He will also discuss a new English text book written by North Koreans.

DATE: December 10 (Saturday)
TIME: 4-5:30pm
VENUE: James Joyce Bar – 14, Xindong Lu, Chaoyang district 朝阳区新东路14号, phone: 6415 9125 14
ENTRANCE: free to FCCC members, 80 RMB on the door to non-members
RSVP: to fcccadmin@gmail.com

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Professor Stewart Lone is an associate professor at the University of New South Wales and a social historian of East Asia; since last year he has spent seven weeks teaching English in Pyongyang. He is also the author of the book “Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Asia.”

China’s consumption and imports of dairy products continue to soar. Come join a panel of veterans discuss efforts to modernise China’s
dairy farming scene, and where the bottlenecks are in raising the quantity and quality of local milk output.

DATE: Nov 28 (Monday)
TIME: 4-5:30pm
VENUE: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Liangmahe Nanlu 4
荷兰王国驻华大 使馆 – 北京, 中 华人民共和国北京市亮马河 南路4号,
Phone: 010 85320200
RSVP: to fcccadmin@gmail.com to ensure entrance through security
ENTRANCE: free to members, 80 RMB on the door to non-members

ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
China representative for World Wide Sires, Alastair Pearson has advised Chinese dairy farms on breeding and dairy herd management. He was also manager of the first of China’s new wave of large-scale dairy farms.

A dairy expert by training, Dr. Ezra Shoshani is Counsellor for International Cooperation MASHAV (Science and Agriculture) at the embassy of Israel. In that role he’s helped establish and oversee a dairy demonstration farm in China. The demonstration farm has had excellent results, with milk production per cow reaching 11,500 kg per cow in 2010.

Alex Tseng is farm manager at Wonder Milk, a large-scale dairy farm outside Beijing run on organic principles.