Event Title: Nicholas Chen - Back to the Future: Hindsight, Insight, Foresight: Lessons from China/Taiwan History

Who:

When:  Wednesday, November 9, 2011 (Dinner Meeting)
Where:  Millennium Scottsdale Resort & Villas

             7401 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 85253
Time:  Cocktails 6:00 p.m. - Dinner 7:00 p.m. - Program 8:00 p.m.

Cost:  $49 PCFR Members; $59 Non-Members & Guests

By PCFR Member Stephen MacKinnon.

For more information on Nicholas Chen, click here.

Online registration is now closed. Please call PCFR at 602-441-4967 for more information. 

PCFR is pleased to welcome Nicholas V. Chen.

     The US and China are collaborators in the most significant bilateral relationship which will shape the 21^st century. This relationship is multi-faceted, highly complex and presents challenges which have tectonic impact on the global economy and political landscape. This bilateral tectonic dynamic has often erupted in cold/hot war over divergent views about the democratic society that exists in Taiwan. Dr Kissinger’s recently published “On China” has outlined the history of this 60 year relationship and has made cautionary suggestions to future caretakers of this trilateral/bilateral dynamic.

     2012 is an election year in both the US (November) and Taiwan (January). In October the entire Chinese Communist Party leadership will transition to the yet unknown “Fifth Generation” line-up. How the new alignment of future leaders in the US, China or Taiwan “play well together” in the les liaisons dangereuses process may radically change the future. What are the frontline latest best guesses on the new Taiwan and PRC leadership changes and how might that impact the US? Despite the 60 year pattern of cross-straits antagonism, very recently both China’s current leader Hu Jin Tao and Taiwan’s leader Ma Ying-Jeou have each separately stated an openness for a cross-straits dialogue towards a peace treaty. How realistic is such a radical idea? Is this mission impossible? Can two concurrently existing Chinese societies built on such different value systems that not long ago fought hot/cold wars, which could barely recognize each other’s existence, find a shared framework that turns swords into plowshares?

     “Back to the Future” will examine China/Taiwan history for lessons on the pitfalls, potential, precedents and probabilities to create a cross-straits “Peace Treaty with Chinese Characteristics.” What would such a framework cover? How and when might it occur? Such a development would not only change the current landscape of US China Taiwan dynamics but it would radically change the trajectories and velocities for almost all international businesses and government and private sector policy planners/implementers. Needless to say, it would change the world as we know it.

     Mr. Chen has been traveling and working in China since 1973. He is the managing partner of Pamir Law Group, an international law and business consulting firm based in Asia with offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei, with a long track record of successfully closing hundreds of transactions in a broad range of industries in China/Taiwan for international clients. He is a practical, street-smart client resource with over three decades of front-line market experience who helps companies and investors develop and implement practical cross border strategies and programs to achieve safer business operations and growth. He is a China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission arbitrator, nominated by the founder of CIETAC. He is a supporter of grass roots community development NGO’s in China. He chairs http://www.ichinaforum.com, a website focused on showing the world the real face of China. He is the editor of the recently published English Forged in Purgatory, the memoirs of Wang Zhong Fang, a senior CCP insider who was a leading cadre in the Public Security Bureau http://www.ichinaforum.com/forgedinpurgatory. Mr. Chen is a graduate of Yale College and New York University School of Law.

     This discussion on U.S./Taiwan/China relations, past and future, promoses to be very thoughtful, thought provoking, and fun.