Event

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.

The 2025 CHINA Town Hall program will take place on Thursday, April 24, at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT, to discuss President Trump’s China policy 100 days in, with featured 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.

Before the Town Hall webcast, please join us for an onsite panel discussion at 6pm with Hanming Fang, Scott Moore and Neysun Mahboubi on the current challenges of US-China relations. Hanming Fang is Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Scott Moore is Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at Penn Global. Neysun Mahboubi is Director of the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at Penn Global. 

Open to all. Informal dinner (pizza) will be provided.