ICC Chinese Language Institute and Peoria Area World Affairs Council co-host live China Town Hall event Oct. 24
Illinois Central College Chinese Language
Institute and Peoria Area World Affairs Council will co-host the 11th
annual China Town Hall event, an eighty-city webcast featuring former National
Security Advisor and U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice. The local, live
webcast takes place Tues., Oct. 24 from 5:45 to 8 pm in the Arbor Hall
Auditorium, Room 111, on the ICC Peoria Campus, located at 5407 N. University
St., Peoria. Chinese tea will be served. Admission is free and open to the
public.
The national event is
presented by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations with a goal to
engage in a conversation on China and the complex U.S.-China relationship, as
well as its influence on the U.S. economy, policies, and security.
The event has two
components: a webcast hosted at approximately eighty venues nationwide and
featuring Ambassador Rice, as well as an
on-site China specialist and moderator, which will be ICC
Assistant Professor of History Stan Mendenhall at the Peoria location. Attendees at the
local events will submit questions to Ambassador Rice through their
local moderator.
More
about Ambassador Rice
Ambassador Susan E. Rice was national security advisor (2013-2017) for
the Obama administration and U.S. permanent representative to the UN
(2009-2013), as well as U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs
and senior director for African affairs at the National Security Council. Her
critical role as a presidential advisor developing and executing policies U.S.
foreign policy make her perspective on the relationship especially relevant
during this uncertain time in the bilateral relationship.
For information on the national program and on the National Committee on
U.S.-China Relations, visit ncuscr.org/content/2017-china-town-hall-susan-rice
For more information about the cohosts, contact Shari West at the ICC
Chinese Language Institute at swest@icc.edu,
and visit the Peoria World Affairs Council website at pawac.org/about-us.html
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