China's Ascendancy: An Opportunity or a Threat?

The Asian Division Friends Society
International Publishing House for China's Culture (IPHCC)
U.S. Asian Cultural Academy (UACA)

Present

"China's Ascendancy: an Opportunity or a Threat?"
a talk by Sheng-Wei Wang, Ph.D., Scholar and Activist

April 14, 2008
12:00pm-1:00pm
Asian Reading Room Foyer, LJ-150, Jefferson Building

Contact: ADevents@loc.gov

Description:
Never in history has China been as closely related to a Western superpower in economic, geopolitical and global strategic interests or as actively engaged in international trades and politics as it is today. The two nations, the U.S.A. and China, clearly need each other, yet, enormous differences exist between them in areas like culture, history, economy and politics. As a result, their relations are predictably complicated and may change over time more often than not. Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang will discuss the theory of “China Threat” rhetoric and her argument why this theory will eventually become obsolete.

About the speaker:
Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang, born in Taiwan, is a scholar, writer, entrepreneur, media figure and political activist. She graduated from National Tsing Hua University with a B.S. degree in Chemistry and earned a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Chemical Physics from the University of Southern California in 1976. She was awarded an Alexander Von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1977-78 to further her research work in Munich University under the guidance of Professor Gerhard Ertl, the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. She became a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory after many years of scientific research at Caltech and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Prior to founding in 2006 the China-U.S. Friendship Exchange, Inc., in Northern California, and co-founding in 2007 the Golden Happiness Ltd. in Hong Kong, she was also a self-made California real estate developer for 15 years. Dr. Wang is also the translator of “One Country, Two Systems.”