CHINA Town Hall (CTH), a program that provides a snapshot of the current U.S.-China relationship and examines how that relationship reverberates at the local level – in our towns, states, and nation – connects people around the country with U.S. policymakers and thought leaders on China.

2025 CHINA Town Hall at DePaul University will feature two talks. Please join our discussion about the current US-China relations in person or via Zoom.

• 5:30-6:30PM National Webinar: The First 100 Days: President Trump's China Policy (speakers: Ryan Hass, Director of John L. Thorton China Center at the Brookings Institution, Matthew Turpin, Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Lingling Wei, Chief China Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal.
• 6:30-7:30PM Local Discussion with Dr. Anthony Kane: Friend or Foe: Chinese Influence in the 21st Century

The door will open at 5PM. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP is required.

Submit questions to national webinar speakers before:

Audience member questions are the foundation of CHINA Town Hall, so we need to hear from you! Please use this formto submit your questions and share the form with the constituents of your local town hall to collect questions from them. If a question is selected from your venue, you will be invited to join the national broadcast via Zoom and ask Ryan Hass, Matthew Turpin, or Lingling Wei the question live. If you have any questions regarding the submission process, please contact us at cth@ncuscr.org.

Bio of Dr. Anthony Kane:

Tony Kane trained as a historian of modern China at Harvard and the University of Michigan and spent most of his career working to increase understanding between China and the United States. After beginning his career teaching history at the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Kane joined The Asia Society in New York in 1986 as Director of the China Council, a nationwide public education program on Contemporary China. In 1991 he moved to the People’s Republic of China as American Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, and he subsequently became Executive Director of the program. More recently he spent another two years in China, living in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, where he consulted with a group of international schools to improve their Chinese language teaching curriculum as well as working with a World Bank consortium of business schools to improve their MBA programs. He returned from China to Washington D.C. and began working at American Councils for International Education, where, as Consulting Director for Chinese Programs he developed a wide range of programs to enhance the Chinese language ability of students of all ages, working with Chinese universities, high schools and other partner institutions. In 2015 he initiated a program to create “A New Generation of Taiwan-based US Students of Chinese Language and Culture.” He retired at the end of 2016.

Co-sponsors:

DePaul Chinese Studies Program

DePaul Global Asian Studies Program

DePaul Department of Political Science

National Committee on US-China Relations