China Speaker Series - The Changing Geopolitics of East Asia: Reflections of an Ambassador

Mon., May 01, 2017 | 5:00 PM — 6:15 PM

Quadrangle Club, Library
1155 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
United States

Sponsored By: Harris Events & The Paulson Institute

The Contemporary China Speaker Series is a joint effort between Harris Public Policy and the Paulson Institute to bring a wide variety of China scholars to engage with UChicago students and community members.  This particular session will feature Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, Distinguished Scholar and Founding Director Emeritus, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Wilson Center.  Amabassador Roy's talk is entitled, "The Changing Geopolitics of East Asia: Reflections of an Ambassador."

Boxed lunches will be provided to registered guests.

Seating and lunches are first-come, first-served.

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About the Speaker:

Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy

Ambassador J. Stapleton (Stape) Roy is a Distinguished Scholar and Founding Director Emeritus of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Stape Roy was born in China and spent much of his youth there during the upheavals of World War II and the communist revolution, where he watched the battle for Shanghai from the roof of the Shanghai American School. He joined the US Foreign Service immediately after graduating from Princeton in 1956, retiring 45 years later with the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the service. In 1978 he participated in the secret negotiations that led to the establishment of US-PRC diplomatic relations. During a career focused on East Asia and the Soviet Union, Stape’s ambassadorial assignments included Singapore, China, and Indonesia. His final post with the State Department was as Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research. On retirement he joined Kissinger Associates, Inc., a strategic consulting firm, before joining the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in September 2008 to head the newly created Kissinger Institute. In 2001 he received Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Public Service.

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