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| “China,
Energy & U.S. Security” Symposium To Be Held at Pomona
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Pomona College will hold a symposium on “China, Energy and
the U.S.” on Thursday, March 2 from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The
event is open to the public and will be held in the Pomona
College Smith Campus Center (Edmunds Ballroom, 170 E. Sixth
St., Claremont). There is no charge to attend.
 China's worldwide search for energy and industrial raw
materials, driven by its huge industrial expansion and an
expanding consumer economy, directly challenges America's
long domination of the energy marketplace. Once an oil
exporter, China is now responsible for almost one-third of
the world's growth in oil demand. China's government-run oil
search is turning to Iran, Venezuela, the Sudan, while China
also extends its trade network in Africa, Latin America and
the Middle East. Already Chinese energy needs are seriously
competing with American energy demands. With energy
consumption soaring in both countries, the conference
organizers believe that it is imperative that the U.S. find
ways of accommodating China's economic growth, without
injuring our own.
The symposium will be chaired by Michael Armacost, a former
U.S. Ambassador to Japan and the Republic of the
Philippines, who is currently at Stanford University’s
Institute for International Studies--Asia/Pacific Research
Center. Armacost previously led the Brookings Institution.
Topics to be covered include:
• China's economic growth and her energy needs (9-10:30
a.m.), by David Fridley, leader of the China Energy Group,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory;
• China's world energy quest (10:45 a.m.–noon), by Mikkal
Herberg, director of the Asian Security Program, at the
National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle;
• The U.S. and World Energy Markets (1:30–3 p.m.), by Edward
Chow, a former fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, Washington, D.C. and currently a
consultant on world energy availability; and
• Issues for U.S. National Security (3:15-4:45 p.m.), by Minxin Pei, senior associate and director of the China
Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Liang Congjie, founder of Friends of Nature, China, will
give a luncheon presentation (noon-1:30 p.m.).
The symposium is organized by the Pacific Basin Institute at
Pomona College in cooperation with the Pomona College
Economics Department and the Pomona Student Union. For more
information, call (909) 607-8065.
The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College is dedicated
to expanding and enhancing comity and shared knowledge among
the nations and cultures on the Pacific Ocean. Pomona
College has been a leader in Asian Studies among American
college and universities since the turn of the century. For
more information on Pomona College, visit www.Pomona.edu.
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