CCG experts in conversation with President of the USCBC
On March 28, 2023, Craig Allen, President of the US-China Business Council (USCBC), visited the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) together with Matt Margulies, Senior Vice President of USCBC China Operations, Ernie Thrasher, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Xcoal Energy & Resources, Lipei Zhang, Senior Director of USCBC Beijing Office and Jason Zhou, Manager of Business Advisory Services at USCBC. They met with Wang Huiyao, CCG Founder and President, Vice Chairman of the MOFCOM China Association for International Economic Cooperation, Jin Xu, President of China Association of International Trade (CAIT), SUN Jie, CCG Senior Fellow and former Director of Fund Management at China Securities Regulatory Commission, Victor Gao, CCG Vice President, Ann Tang, CCG Deputy Secretary-General and Wu Mengqi, CCG Research Fellow.
During the visit, they discussed China’s economic development and specifically China’s application to join the CPTPP. Both sides expressed their respective opinions towards China-US economic and trade relations and the future of US-funded enterprises in China.
The US-China Business Council (USCBC) was founded in 1973 as a non-profit organization of over 280 American companies that do business with China. Craig Allen began his tenure as the president of the US-China Business Council (USCBC) in 2018. Prior to joining USCBC, Craig had a long, distinguished career in US public service. He spent more than 30 years serving as a diplomat in Asia.
CCG has visited USCBC many times and maintained close contact with its President. Both sides regularly monitor China-US bilateral trade relationships and they are committed to promoting communication between two countries through people-to-people exchanges. During CCG’s Track Ⅱ Diplomacy visit to the US in July 2022, the delegation of CCG Think Tank experts visited Craig in Washington where they engaged in a broad discussion on China-US relations, economic and trade cooperation, and the possible future of US tariffs against China.
