China Daily
October 22, 2012
China Daily interviewed Committee of 100 Chairman Dominic Ng at the close of the 2012 election campaign about how China bashing doesn’t win elections and hurts both U.S.-China relations and Asian Americans. Ng also suggested ways to counteract the lack of trust between the two countries’ peoples: “There should be a lot more cultural exchange, academic exchange ... The more we talk, the more we seek common ground and try to respect each other.”
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Committee of 100 Governor Henry Tang reflects on the origins of C-100 in 1989 and speaks frankly about the issues that dominated his C-100 Chairmanship, including the Wen Ho Lee case, in a lengthy interview by Kelly Chung Dawson in China Daily on March 9.
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“China in Transition”
By Sheridan Prasso
strategy+business | September 19, 2011
China’s burgeoning middle class has been a powerful source of political, social, and economic stability . . . But pressures on the Chinese middle class are increasing as well: Inflation is rising, a property bubble keeps young families from buying real estate, and a large number of college graduates are unable to find jobs.
All this is putting enormous pressure on China’s leadership, says Cheng Li, a political scientist from Shanghai who is director of research at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. . . . Li was in New York in May to speak at a conference organized by the Committee of 100, a nonprofit focusing on U.S.-China relations. . . .
S+B: Can the world’s resources handle 1.3 billion increasingly active Chinese consumers?
LI: The rise of the Chinese middle class is a mixed blessing. As China transitions from an export-led economy to a consumption-led economy, the global environmental and ecological implications will be overwhelming. But I think the Chinese government should avoid [encouraging] today’s progress at tomorrow’s expense. For example, if China continues to adopt a model in which every family owns a car, it would be a huge [environmental and infrastructure] disaster for the country, with repercussions for already strained resources that could be felt around the world. . . .
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Committee of 100 Chairman and East West Bank CEO Dominic Ng was featured in Tim Ferguson’s “Oceans Away” column in Forbes on July 7 as “one of Forbes’ Names You Need to Know in 2011.”
The emerging face of Chinese-American business is Dominic Ng. . . .
East West has been built by chairman and CEO Ng into not only America’s largest financial institution focused on ethnic Chinese, but also one of California’s two biggest homegrown banks, with assets exceeding $21 billion. . . .
Ng’s personal profile has risen as he’s become chairman of the Committee of 100 , an increasingly prominent organization of leading Chinese-Americans in business and other fields.
As commercial and other relations between the U.S. and China get more important and complex, we are all likely to be hearing more from and about Dominic Ng.
November 29, 2010 | All China Women’s Federation
[originally in Chinese on china.com.cn and people.com.cn]
[This translation from the Women’s Federation website of a lengthy feature on C-100 Governor Shirley Young, describes Young’s career as a General Motors executive and her work with the Committee of 100.]
Governor of the Chinese American leadership resource the Committee of 100 Shirley Young is also chairperson of the US-China Cultural Institute, formerly the Committee of 100 Cultural Institute.
Ms. Young is on the worldwide Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy and on the Asia-Pacific Council. She is also a founding member of the Committee of 200, an international organization of leading businesswomen. . . .
Ms. Young's appointment in 1988 as corporate vice-president of General Motors, a post she held until December 31 1999, made her the first and sole Chinese VP at GM since its establishment in 1908.
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“Cultural Connections”
By Guo Shuhan
November 1, 2010 | China Daily
[This profile of Committee of 100 Governor Shirley Young also tells the story of the Committee to English-language readers in China.]
Shirley Young and the Committee of 100 are using the arts to build bridges between China and the U.S.
Shirley Young's life during the past two decades has been filled with, in her words, "small things,” yet, things big enough to bring about major turning points in some people's life. Hot tickets such as pianist Lang Lang, choreographer Huang Doudou, and new emerging singing star Shen Yang, who won BBC Cardiff Singer of the World in 2007, were all introduced to the right people and the world by Young. . . .
The 2010 Shanghai World Expo opens May 1, and 2,500 ordinary Chinese living in the Bay Area will be part of it.
That's how many have been photographed for a wall exhibition called "The Chinese in America," in the U.S. pavilion of the world's fair which about 70 million people are expected to visit before it closes in six months. That's a lot of exposure for people who were just going about their routine when they came within the long outreach arm of Mabel Teng, executive director of the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco.
Teng, a former city supervisor and tax assessor, heard about the photo exhibition from Dennis Wu, a San Francisco philanthropist who sits on the Committee of 100, a national nonpartisan organization that is sponsoring the exhibit. Teng threw the weight of her foundation behind it, launching an outreach drive on Chinese New Year last February.
"The idea is to show that America is a diverse country and that Chinese are part of the diversity and the strength," she says. "We want to have every strata represented in the digital wall."
By John Chen and Frank Wu
April 6, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle
Next week's planned visit to U.N. disarmament talks in Washington by Chinese President Hu Jintao comes at a time when U.S.-China relations have taken a downward turn.
After high hopes for President Obama's visit last fall to Beijing, the December climate change conference in Copenhagen resulted in a major setback. More recently, disputes have erupted around Tibet, arms sales to Taiwan, China's currency valuation, the Google China controversy and proposed legislation by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that would impose tariffs on Chinese products imported to this country, raising the specter of a trade war.
Such tension is in part the residue of Cold War tensions between the United States and China, despite the latter's revolutionary shift to a market economy. Another considerable factor is that this is an election year here at home, and that a major shift of power is also in the offing in Beijing. The leaders of both nations are, as usual, directing their rhetoric toward their domestic constituents. . . .
