San Diego will join more than 80 venues across the country for the program, which will feature Ambassador Huntsman in conversation with National Committee on U.S.-China Relations President Stephen Orlins, followed by on-site discussions about U.S.-China relations and the issues that are having an impact on each local community, its institutions, and the people themselves. Established in 1966, theNational Committee on United States-China Relationsistheleading American non-profit, non-partisan public affairs organization devoted to building constructive relationsbetween the United States and Greater China.

SPEAKER: Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.

• Governor, Utah, 2005-2009
• U.S. Ambassador to China, 2009-2011
• U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2017-2019

Following Huntsman’s talk, UC San Diego sociologist and Director of Fudan-UC Center Richard Madsen, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UC San Diego, will give an in-person talk at the center’s partner The Bishop’s School on the increasing dissonance of the American Dream and the China Dream. 

Topic: The American Dream and the China Dream: From resonance to dissonance

There has been an evolution over the past thirty years in the ways Americans and Chinese have talked about each other. On the American side, there was a basically positive mainstream discourse, but there were strands of negative discourse about immigration, elite collusion, espionage, and intellectual property theft, that came together under the Trump administration to create a new mainstream narrative.  On the China side there were new aspirations to national greatness mobilized by the Xi Jinping regime that have led to a more combative discourse about America. Can we develop a more resonant accord between the American dream and the China Dream?