China Trade Hearing Monday 21 August.

While staffers from the other China Committee recover from their CoDel to New Guniea, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission will hold a hearing Monday, August 21, on "China's Current Economy: Implications for Investors and Supply Chains" starting at 9:30 a.m. ET.

Agenda (below) indicates the first two hours will address China's Economy, with the trade discussion beginning at 11:20 AM.  

11:20 AM – 12:35 PM: Panel II: U.S.-China Trade and Supply Chains

Livestream on the commission's web page [here]

The hearing will:

• Evaluate the health of China's financial sector, assessing the extent of China's evolving fiscal and financial challenges and the consequent implications for China's economic growth.
• Examine China's role in global capital markets, including how China's sovereign wealth funds invest and deploy China's foreign exchange reserves.
• Address developments in U.S.-China trade relations and U.S. supply chain resiliency, looking at the major trends reshaping U.S. supply chain strategies in addition to China's efforts to secure dominance in key technology areas, such as clean energy technology.

AGENDA

Hearing on "China's Current Economy: Implications for Investors and Supply Chains" 

Monday, August 21, 2023

Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430, and Webex

Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioner Robin Cleveland and Commissioner Kimberly T. Glas

9:30 AM – 9:40 AM: Co-Chairs' Opening Remarks
 
9:40 AM – 11:10 AM: Panel I: China’s Domestic Financial Situation

• Logan Wright, Partner and Director of China Markets Research, Rhodium Group
• Nicholas Borst, Vice President, Director of China Research, Seafarer Capital Partners
• Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

11:10 AM – 11:20 AM: Break

11:20 AM – 12:35 PM: Panel II: U.S.-China Trade and Supply Chains

• Christopher Gopal, Former Executive and Global Supply Chain Consultant
• Ilaria Mazzocco, Senior Fellow with the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics, Center for Strategic and International Studies

12:35 PM – 12:40 PM: Closing Remarks

12:40 PM: Adjourn