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Looking Back and Forward: Canada-China-U.S. Relations (CGCS & NCUCR End-of-Term Event)

Please join us at the Centre for Global Chinese Studies'聽end-of-term event聽for the聽streaming party watch of the 2026 China Town Hall webinar聽organized by the National Committee on US China Relations in New York. The聽NCUSR webcast streaming will be preceded聽by in-person and virtual discussion hosted by the CGCS on the theme of 鈥淐anada-China-US Relations."

Date & Time:聽April 7, 2026 | 5:00PM - 8:30PM 聽| 聽Hybrid & In-Person Event
尝辞肠补迟颈辞苍:听Learning Commons (RM 120), Education Building 3700 Rue McTavish, Montr茅al, QC H3A 1X1

Event Overview:

• 5:00PM Reception
• 5:30-6:30 Discussion
• 6:30-7:30聽Webcast: NCUCR CHINA Town Hall 2026
• 7:30-8:00 Concluding Remarks

*Seating is limited, so please register early to secure your spot.聽Additionally, have any questions? If so, submit them聽in advance of the event in the RSVP registration form

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Speaker Information:
China Town Hall Speakers

• 厂迟别辫丑别苍听叠颈别驳耻苍,聽former U.S.聽deputy聽secretary of聽state
• Sarah Beran,聽former聽deputy聽chief of聽mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and former聽senior聽director for China and Taiwan聽affairs at the White House National Security Council.聽

Moderators: In-Person

• Juan Wang:聽Associate Professor of Political Science at 麻豆传媒网站, Director of the Centre for Global Chinese Studies
• Guojun Wang:聽Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at 麻豆传媒网站, Associate Director of the Centre for Global Chinese Studies

Local Speakers: Online

• Denis Simon:聽Denis Simon is an expert on international business, innovation, talent, and global science and technology affairs. He has more than four decades of experience studying innovation, R&D, and talent strategy in contemporary China. Currently, he is holder of the Bank of America Chair in International Finance at the Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University. He also is a Senior Fellow at the Quincy Institute in Washington, DC. He is former Visiting Professor within the Asian Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University (2022-2025). From 2015-2022, he served as professor of practice at Duke University鈥檚 Fuqua School of Business and Executive Vice Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University in China from 2015-2020. He was a founding member of the Experts Group of the US-China Innovation Dialogue organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and China鈥檚 Ministry of Science & Technology (2008-2016). He also has served as senior adviser on China and SIO at several major U.S. universities. From 1995-2000, he was general manager of Andersen Consulting in Beijing (now Accenture) and was founding president of Monitor Group China (2001-2002). He earned his PhD and MA from UC Berkeley and his BA from SUNY New Paltz. He speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese. In 2006, he was awarded the China National Friendship Award by then Premier Wen Jiabao in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
• Pitman Potter:聽Emeritus Professor of Law at University of British Columbia. Potter鈥檚 teaching and research have focused on PRC and Taiwan law and policy in the areas of international trade and investment, dispute resolution, property and contract law, and human rights. Prior to his retirement in 2020, Potter also practiced as an attorney licensed in British Columbia, Washington State and California handling China business and arbitration matters. Dr. Potter has served on the Boards of Directors of several public institutions, including the Canada-China Business Council and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APFC) where he is currently a Distinguished Fellow Emeritus. Potter is a Deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada (Diocese of New Westminster). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Member of the Order of Canada.