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DESCRIPTION:Looking Back and Forward: Canada-China-U.S. Relations (CGCS & N
 CUCR End-of-Term Event)\n\nPlease join us at the Centre for Global Chinese
  Studies' end-of-term event for the streaming party watch of the 2026 Chin
 a Town Hall webinar organized by the National Committee on US China Relati
 ons in New York. The NCUSR webcast streaming will be preceded by in-person
  and virtual discussion hosted by the CGCS on the theme of “Canada-China-U
 S Relations.'\n\nDate & Time: April 7\, 2026 | 5:00PM - 8:30PM  |  Hybrid 
 & In-Person Event\n	Location: Learning Commons (RM 120)\, Education Buildin
 g 3700 Rue McTavish\, Montréal\, QC H3A 1X1\n\nRegistration Link: Click he
 re\n\nEvent Overview:\n\n\n	5:00PM Reception\n	5:30-6:30 Discussion\n	6:30-7:
 30 Webcast: NCUCR CHINA Town Hall 2026\n	7:30-8:00 Concluding Remarks\n\n\n
 *Seating is limited\, so please register early to secure your spot. Additi
 onally\, have any questions? If so\, submit them in advance of the event i
 n the RSVP registration form\n\n-----\n	Speaker Information:\n	China Town Ha
 ll Speakers\n\n\n	Stephen Biegun\, former U.S. deputy secretary of state\n	S
 arah Beran\, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing
  and former senior director for China and Taiwan affairs at the White Hous
 e National Security Council. \n\n\nModerators: In-Person\n\n\n	Juan Wang: A
 ssociate Professor of Political Science at Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾\, Director of the Centre
  for Global Chinese Studies\n	Guojun Wang: Associate Professor of East Asia
 n Studies at Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾\, Associate Director of the Centre for Global Chinese 
 Studies\n\n\nLocal Speakers: Online\n\n\n	Denis Simon: Denis Simon is an ex
 pert on international business\, innovation\, talent\, and global science 
 and technology affairs. He has more than four decades of experience studyi
 ng innovation\, R&D\, and talent strategy in contemporary China. Currently
 \, he is holder of the Bank of America Chair in International Finance at t
 he Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University. He also is a Senior Fellow a
 t 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’s
  Fuqua School of Business and Executive Vice Chancellor of Duke Kunshan Un
 iversity 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 Off
 ice of Science and Technology Policy and China’s Ministry of Science & Tec
 hnology (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 manag
 er of Andersen Consulting in Beijing (now Accenture) and was founding pres
 ident 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 Chi
 nese. In 2006\, he was awarded the China National Friendship Award by then
  Premier Wen Jiabao in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.\n	Pitman Po
 tter: Emeritus Professor of Law at University of British Columbia. Potter’
 s teaching and research have focused on PRC and Taiwan law and policy in t
 he areas of international trade and investment\, dispute resolution\, prop
 erty and contract law\, and human rights. Prior to his retirement in 2020\
 , Potter also practiced as an attorney licensed in British Columbia\, Wash
 ington State and California handling China business and arbitration matter
 s. Dr. Potter has served on the Boards of Directors of several public inst
 itutions\, including the Canada-China Business Council and the Asia Pacifi
 c 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 Mem
 ber of the Order of Canada.\n\n
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LOCATION:EDUC 120\, Education Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1Y2\, 370
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SUMMARY:Looking Back and Forward: Canada-China-U.S. Relations (CGCS & NCUCR
  End-of-Term Event)
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