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국제투기자본은 뉴욕과 아시아 각지에 거점을 둔 아시아 소사이어티를 통해 중국 공산당과 백채널로 소통한다; 아시아 소사이어티 의장 중 한명은 CFR 멤버고, 다른 한명은 골드만삭스 회장, 브루킹스 연구소 출신으로 칭화대 교수 역임; 중국 공산당 고위멤버들 정기 연수 코스가 하버드 케네디 스쿨인 것도 이 때문

국제투기자본은 뉴욕과 아시아 각지에 거점을 둔 아시아 소사이어티를 통해 중국 공산당과 백채널로 소통한다 1; 아시아 소사이어티 의장 중 한명은 CFR 멤버고, 다른 한명은 골드만삭스 회장, 브루킹스 연구소 출신으로 칭화대 교수 역임; 중국 공산당 고위멤버들 정기 연수 코스가 하버드 케네디 스쿨인 것도 이 때문

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Society

 

 In January 2024, Kyung-wha Kang, who served as the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, from 2017 to 2021, was named its president and CEO, effective in April 2024.[7] Asia Society has been described as a participant in the Chinese Communist Party's "backchannel" diplomatic efforts.[8]

 

Policy

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The Asia Society houses two policy institutions. The Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), founded in 2014,[29] is a think tank that works with policy-makers and experts in Asia.[30]

The Center on U.S.-China Relations was established in 2006 with a gift from Arthur Ross with the goal of helping to forge a more constructive bilateral relationship. The Center undertakes projects and events which explore areas of common interest and divergent views between the two countries, focusing on policy, culture, business, media, economics, energy and the environment.[citation needed] Orville Schell is the current director of the center.[31][32]

Partnerships

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In May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asia Society partnered with the nonprofit organization East Coast Coalition for Tolerance and Non-Discrimination and the Rockefeller Foundation to host a virtual forum entitled Standing Against Racism in the Time of COVID.[33] Speakers at the forum included Representative Ted Lieu, then-Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, community organizer Bincheng Mao, and actor Tzi Ma.[34] The Asia Society maintains a strategic partnership with the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.[35]

 

 

Blocking pro-democracy activist from attending event

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Pro-democracy activist and secretary-general of Demosisto Joshua Wong was allegedly disallowed by Asia Society Hong Kong from speaking at a book launch originally scheduled to take place at its Hong Kong venue on June 28, 2017. It was understood that Asia Society Hong Kong was approached by PEN Hong Kong to co-curate the book launch, but negotiations stalled upon the former's request for a more diverse panel of speakers. PEN Hong Kong, a nonprofit organization supporting literature and freedom of expression, eventually decided to relocate the launch of Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a Borrowed Place – of which Wong was one of the authors – to the Foreign Correspondents Club. Joshua Wong said that Asia Society Hong Kong needs to give a "reasonable explanation" for the incident.[36]

 

 

Leadership

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In January 2024, Kyung-wha Kang was named the new president and CEO, effective in April 2024.[7]

Board Co-Chairs

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Past Presidents

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Heng_Chee


Chan was a member of the International Advisory Board of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, a council member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, and a council member of the International Council of the Asia Society in New York. When Ambassador Chan left Washington at the end of her appointment as Ambassador to the US, she received the Inaugural Asia Society Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award, the Inaugural Foreign Policy Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award 2012 and the United States Navy Distinguished Public Service Award. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Thornton


John Lawson Thornton (born January 2, 1954) is an American businessman and professor and director of the Global Leadership Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.[2] He is also chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation,[3][4] chairman of RedBird Capital Partners and non-executive chairman of PineBridge Investments.[5] Thornton stepped down as co-president of Goldman Sachs in 2003.[6]
Thornton currently serves as Chair Emeritus[42] of the Brookings Institution and co-chair of the Asia Society.[43] In addition to these academic and research affiliations, Thornton has also authored forewords for three books, including "Social Ethics in a Changing China",[44] "China in 2020"[45] and "Democracy is a Good Thing".[46] 

 

Interest in China

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Thornton's interest in China stretches to at least November 1997, when Goldman Sachs assisted China Telecom with its $4.2 billion IPO, one of the first international listings of a Chinese state-owned company.[47] By the time Thornton left his position at Goldman, the bank had become the lead underwriter for major Chinese state-owned companies.[13]

Thornton joined the board of trustees of the Brookings Institution in May 2000,[48] and became chairman in June 2003.[49] Brookings established the John L. Thornton China Center in 2006 with an initial $12.5 million donation from John Thornton.[50] The center has offices in Washington D.C. and Beijing and provides recommendations to decision-makers in China and the West.[51][52] In November 2018, Thornton stepped down as board chair and became chair emeritus.[53]

In 2009, Thornton became an inaugural member of the International Advisory Council of the Chinese sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation.[54] He is also listed as chairman of the Board of the Silk Road Finance Corporation.[55]

Thornton was a senior consultant[56] for the Confucius Institute.

Thornton was an original member of the Schwarzman Scholars board of trustees, founded in 2013 by Stephen A. Schwarzman.[57] Thornton's son, J. R. Thornton, was named a Schwarzman Scholar in 2017.[58]

In September 2017, Thornton helped arrange a meeting between Steve Bannon and Wang Qishan, Thornton's friend and former head of the China Construction Bank and former member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee,[59] at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Zhongnanhai headquarters a few weeks after Bannon was forced out of his advisory role in President Donald Trump's first administration.[60] Bannon, also a former Goldman employee, has described Thornton as a friend and mentor.[61]

Thornton, alongside Secretary of Treasury, Steve Mnuchin, and US Trade Representative Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, served as one of the architects of Phase I of the US-China trade deal.[62] US President Donald Trump's ally[63] and Palm Beach neighbor,[64] Thornton has represented the United States during the trade war escalations of Trump's four-year term, including in a closed-door meeting in 2018 with Vice-Premier Liu He and the international advisory board of China's sovereign wealth fund.[63]

In 2025, Thornton's relationship with Cai Qi, director of the CCP General Office, came into scrutiny with RedBird's proposed purchase of The Daily Telegraph.[65]

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Oxnam


In 2003–06, he was Visiting Professor at Beijing University and Global Scholar at Robinson College of Business Georgia State University. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Cosmos Club, Century Association, the Association of Asian Studies, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. In later years, he was advisor to major wealth management firms including, the Bessemer Trust Company,[11] as well as trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Armand Erpf Fund, offering insights on the Asia/Pacific region.

In later years, Oxnam embarked on an artistic career — making weathered wood sculptures and doing macro-lens photography of glacial rocks — in the great tradition of Chinese scholar's rocks. In recent years, exhibitions have included: Chambers Fine Art Gallery,[12] Rockefeller Brothers Fund,[13] Triple Candie Gallery, Interchurch Center,[14] Brecknock Hall, Full Moon Arts Center, Art Sites Gallery.[15] In addition to being a frequent speaker on topics concerning China and Asia, Oxnam gave keynote addresses on the "Psychology of Creativity" to such organizations as An Infinite Mind and the Conductors Retreat at Medomak.

 Oxnam was married to Vishakha N. Desai, a specialist on Asian art, who stepped down as President of the Asia Society in 2012, and is currently Special Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University and Senior Advisor for Global Policy and Programs to the Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.[17]

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josette_Sheeran


Sheeran is former Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum.[2] While there, she helped found and advance global initiatives encompassing global, regional, and industry agendas such as Grow Africa, launching new technologies and attracting over $300 million in private sector investment to end aid dependency and tackle hunger and malnutrition in Africa.

She was the eleventh Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), appointed by United Nations Secretary-General, leading the world's biggest humanitarian supply chains delivering over 20 billion meals a year to war and disaster zones. In the role she introduced the first block chain to deliver food and cash to war zones such as Syria, and successfully negotiated access into Somalia, North Korea and Libya. Kofi Annan in November 2006.[3] The World Food Program was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.

 

 

Boards and honors

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Ambassador Sheeran serves on the boards of Capital Group funds, which manages more than $2.5 trillion in global investments; Vestergaard International, which has delivered 1 billion high tech nets to prevent deaths from malaria; Lifestraw, a pioneer in access to safe water; Sceye, the world’s first stationary stratospheric vessel and the Business Council for International Understanding. She also serves on the Board of Directors, and as co-chair of the Finance & Human Resources Committee, of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), founded through a partnership between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006 in response to a call from former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who said the time had come for African farmers to wage a “uniquely African Green Revolution.”

Sheeran is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In 2011, Forbes named her the world's 30th most powerful woman;[16] Foreign Policy listed her among its top 100 global 'Twitterati'. She was a Fisher Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center in 2013. She graduated from the University of Colorado and has been awarded numerous honorary doctorate degrees, including from Michigan State University and the University of Colorado.

She was awarded Japan's Nigata International Food Award, Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole by the government of France, and Brazil's highest civilian award, the Grand Official Order of the ‘Rio Branco,’ and the “Game Changer” award by HuffPost.

 

 

 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Schell

Schell's selection as Dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism elicited an attack from right-wing radio talk show host, Michael Savage, who alleged the head of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, had refused to interview him. Savage considered himself a qualified conservative journalist for the job, and claimed that Schell's appointment constituted political patronage, which is illegal under California's labor laws. The suit also argued that a political litmus test for the deanship illegally denied public employment and First Amendment rights to a conservative applicant. The lawsuit was dropped as having little merit and when all conservative applicants withdrew from consideration.[citation needed]

During his tenure Schell was responsible for the hirings of Christopher Hitchens, Michael Lewis, Cynthia Gorney, Michael Pollan, Louis Rossetto, Charles Ferguson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Mark Danner, Steve Wasserman, Stephen Talbot and Tom Engelhardt, among others.

In April 2006, Schell announced his intention to resign as dean.[11]

Schell is now the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.–China Relations at the Asia Society in New York, which focuses on multimedia journalism, original research and public events to bring attention to areas of mutual interest to the United States and China. Since its inception, the Center has focused primarily on issues of energy and global climate change. Schell oversaw "The China Boom Project", "On Thinner Ice", a joint multimedia project with David Breashears's Glacier Research Imaging Project (GRIP) and MediaStorm, and a new policy effort to maximize American interest in response to investment from China.[12]

A frequent participant in the World Economic Forum, Schell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Climate Policy Initiative, GE's Eco Imagination Advisory Board and the Council on the Future of Media, which claims to be "championing a new global, independent news and information service whose role is to inform, educate and improve the state of the world-one that would take advantage of all platforms of content delivery from mobile to satellite and online to create a new global network".[13]

Schell is also a senior research scholar at Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute.[14]

 

Views on China

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Schell first visited the People's Republic of China in 1974, during the last years of Mao Zedong. After Mao's death, Schell wrote: "He conceived of the Chinese revolution, and then helped cause it to happen. And, in the process, the thought of Chairman Mao became inculcated in almost every Chinese. The word almost literally became flesh. And it seemed clear, even before Mao died, that his death could not erase the way in which he had almost become transubstantiated in his people."[18]

In 2004 Schell called China's Communist-Capitalist mix "Leninist capitalism".[19]

In an interview with Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air broadcast November 19, 2009, Schell stated that whether or not China's "autocratic capitalism" could deliver economic growth better than democracy was a question he faced "with some trepidation." He suggests the Chinese form of government may be more adaptive than democracy[20] because it is not encumbered by the special interest power blocs found in the United States, and can sometimes be able to act more decisively to deal with the complexities of the world of today, although it can also more quickly implement poor decisions. But, he emphasized that he personally preferred living in an open society.

After Xi Jinping's ascension to power in 2013, Schell has become increasingly critical of China's authoritarian model of governance, and in 2020 wrote an essay about the "death of engagement" between the US and China.[21]

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