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OUR NEXT PARTNER EVENT

Be inspired, hear from top U.S.-China and AAPI leaders in 2023.

U.S.-China relations and the Asian American community stand at a critical juncture. As a leader in these spaces, the Serica Initiative recognizes it is more vital than ever for us to forge powerful partnerships and amplify our impact together — we are stronger together. 

The Serica Annual Gala convenes trailblazers, thought leaders, and rising talents to empower and inspire one another along Serica’s mission: to galvanize a global community of change-makers to advocate for greater Asian American inclusion and advance positive social impact in U.S.-China relations, through dialogue, storytelling, and our convening power. ​

Our 2023 Annual Gala seeks to inspire our audience, drawing on Serica’s Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) partnerships with leading organizations, including The Asian American Foundation (TAAF); our ongoing AAPI film collaborations with PBS/The WNET Group’s Exploring Hate initiative in 2022 and 2023; as well as our U.S.-China and Next Gen partnership with China Institute. ​

Attending the Serica Annual Gala is an opportunity to celebrate your commitment to diversity and inclusion in the U.S.-China space. You will network with an incredibly engaged high-value audience of U.S.-China and AAPI leaders. There will be a pre-event cocktail hour where we will highlight Asian booths with street food and culture booths. This will be followed by a live gala and awards dinner with entertainment. We seek to inspire our audiences, giving them the chance to learn from and network with top AAPI and U.S.-China leaders.

Buy tickets at the link below to attend a once-in-a-lifetime event!

The China Agenda This Week

NEW! What’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of July 17–23. 

NEXTCHINA 2023

The NEXTChina Conference is the ultimate summit on China in 2023, giving a space for China-focused professionals to convene, network, and receive forward-looking insights into current affairs from the foremost thinkers on China today. 

Our panels, workshops, and interactive engagements will inform and set the agenda for China relations in what promises to be a challenging year ahead.

The conference will take place in New York City, with a packed program dedicated to exploring the big questions of China’s role in the world. Stay tuned for tickets to go on sale in August.

PARTNER EVENTS

The China Institute Renwen Society presents:

Author’s Talk: Red Bishop

Online Lecture 
July 22, 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Besides the U.S., perhaps no country is more important to the world’s economy and geopolitics than China. Crucial to understanding and interacting with China is a familiarity with its complex and dense history. Red Bishop is Dr. Robin T.W. Yuan’s epic historical fiction based on the extraordinary life of his maternal grandfather, Rt. Rev. Robin Chen, China’s last presiding bishop of the Anglican Church. Written with “novelistic detail and cinematic scope,” Dr. Yuan weaves the bishop’s and his family’s story with that of the Christianity experiment and the rich, and often tragic, events of 20th-century China.

This talk will explain the genesis of Red Bishop, the backstory to this epic historical fiction, the main elements, characters, and events interwoven in this multi-dimensional narrative of Bishop Robin Chen and his family, 20th-century China, and the Christian experiment. It is hoped that it will educate the audience with a uniquely Chinese perspective and illuminate some of the similarities between post-imperialist China and the present-day United States.

U.S. Heartland China Association presents: 

Globalization of RMB & Future of International Trade

Free Zoom webinar 

July 26, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. ET

What are the challenges and opportunities of the Chinese efforts to develop the RMB as an international trade standard versus the dollar? 

USHCA is excited to bring two leading experts, Diana Choyleva, Chief Economist at Enodo Economics, and David Dollar, Senior Fellow for Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institute, to speak about their views on the outlook and the timing of such a rollout and the globalization of the RMB’s impact on international trade — especially agricultural trade — and how the other countries, including the U.S., may counter.

Other China-focused events you might be interested in:

China Institute Calligraphy Meetup (NYC, in person)

China Britain Trade Expo 2023 (London, in person)

Decoupling of the U.S.-China Relationship (online)

China Institute Exclusive Premiere: Return to Dust (NYC, in person)

中秋节 Autumn Festival – Creating a Historic Chinatown Alley (Red Bluff, CA, in person)

Film Screening & Speaker Discussion – Creating a Historic Chinatown (Red Bluff, CA, in person)

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