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Upcoming Events
Speaker event 05/08 FCCC speaker
event: Dr. Bates Gill on "China's approach to internatio
Dear Colleagues,
As China's economic and political clout grows, its military budgets and international arms deals are coming under increasing scrutiny. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute director Dr. Bates Gill will share with us his insights on "International arms control and nonproliferation issues: by what rules is China playing?". Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Arms Control and Disarmament Association, Dr. Teng Jianqun will be available to answer your questions together with Dr. Gill.
WHEN:
Thursday, May 8, 2008
TIME: 1:00 to 2:30 p.m
WHERE: Embassy of Romania, Ritan Lu Dong Er Jie,
罗马尼亚大使馆,
日坛路东2街(next to the Embassy
of India and behind the Embassy of New Zealand).
Tel. 65323442.
Please bring a photo I.D. for security check.
This event is for FCCC members only, please bring your FCCC
membership card. Membership is not transferable.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr Bates Gill was appointed by the Swedish government
to become
the seventh Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in March 2007. He held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C from 2002 to 2007. He previously served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution from 1998 to 2002. He has also directed East Asia programs at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute, Monterey, California and at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and formerly held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China. Dr. Gill received his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, USA. Dr Teng Jianqun ( Colonel, retired) is the Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Arms Control and Disarmament Association (CACDA), a non-profit NGO with sponsorship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. Prior to that, he was the editor-in-chief of a military journal in the Academy of Military Science, PLA. He served in the People's Liberation Army for 25 years prior to his demobilisation in 2004, when he joined the Ministry. In recent years, Dr. Teng has published dozens of papers on international arms control and disarmament in addition to authoring numerous CACDA reports. He has two master degrees, one from the Academy of Military Science and another from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. He also has a PhD in international relations from Beijing University.
We hope to see you there!
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