Invitation for Ralph Winnie, Jr. to attend Military Reception and Chinese Delegation Seminar

 Hi, Mr. Ralph Winnie,

 

This is Chen Yutong from the Chinese Embassy. Ms. Christine have sent me an email before saying that you and your guests would like to attend our Military Reception. We have a formal invitation letter for you now and I guess I can spare two or three invitations to your guests. Please inform me of their names and address so that I can send them. The date has been settled on 30th July, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

More importantly, I am writing to invite you to a seminar hold in the Economic & Commercial Office of the Chinese Embassy on 25th July.

A Chinese delegation of experts led by Li Yong, (Deputy Secretary General of China Association of International Trade) will be visiting Washington DC. They would like to hold a seminar with American counterparts, discussing Sino-US trade relations. The proposed topics include:

1. How to understand the trade war between China and the United States and the future of trade relations between the two countries.

2. How to understand China's industrial policy and "Made in China 2025"

3. Whether China has carried out economic invasion to the United States

4. How to evaluate multilateral trade system and WTO reform

5. How to understand US investment restrictions on China and the prospects for Sino-US investment cooperation

The seminar would be a small one with around 15 participants altogether from two sides and we are working on inviting experts from other major institutes in DC. You you can find the Chinese delegation list as attached.The delegation is really looking forward to exchanging views with you.The seminar would be between 9:00 to 12:00 in the morning and there would also be a following up working luncheon which takes about an hour. Hope you are interested in this and available at that time. 

Delegation List
1. Li Yong, Deputy Secretary General , China Association of International Trade
2. Huang Hanquan, Director of the Institute of Industrial Development, Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research
3. Tu Xinquan, Executive Dean and Professor, China Institute for WTO Studies, University of International Business and Economics
4. Xu Jiabin, Professor, Department of Trade Economics, Renmin University of China
5. Zhang Monan, Senior Fellow, China Center for International Economic Exchanges
6. Yuan Youwei, Deputy Director, Department of External affairs, China Center for International Economic Exchanges
7. Chen Nan, Second Secretary, Department of American and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Commerce

Ralph Winnie, Jr. to attend Military Reception and Chinese Delegation Seminar July 30th

A Chinese delegation of experts led by Li Yong, (Deputy Secretary General of China Association of International Trade) will be visiting Washington DC. They would like to hold a seminar with American counterparts, discussing Sino-US trade relations. The proposed topics include:

1. How to understand the trade war between China and the United States and the future of trade relations between the two countries.

2. How to understand China's industrial policy and "Made in China 2025"

3. Whether China has carried out economic invasion to the United States

4. How to evaluate multilateral trade system and WTO reform

5. How to understand US investment restrictions on China and the prospects for Sino-US investment cooperation

Meeting with Chinese Delegation

Mr. Winnie,
I am writing to extend my sincere thanks to you for your presence at the Chinese delegation Seminar on US-China trade relations on July 25. Your thoughts and suggestions on bilateral trade relations are inspiring and insightful. The delegation have learned a lot by exchanging view with you and they hope they can continue to share your ideas and thoughts in the future. We hope that the experts from both sides can work together for a better trade relation between our two countries.

Again, thank you for attending the seminar and see you on the Military Reception.

With warm regards,

Yutong

Response from Embassy of the People's Republic of China regarding Ralph Winnie, Jr. meeting with Chinese Delegation on July 25th, 2018

Mr. Winnie,

I am writing to extend my sincere thanks to you for your presence at the Chinese delegation Seminar on US-China trade relations on July 25. Your thoughts and suggestions on bilateral trade relations are inspiring and insightful. The delegation have learned a lot by exchanging view with you and they hope they can continue to share your ideas and thoughts in the future. We hope that the experts from both sides can work together for a better trade relation between our two countries.

Again, thank you for attending the seminar and see you on the Military Reception.

With warm regards,
Yutong

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Speaker Invitation - 4TH ESCP EUROPE ENERGY MANAGEMENT SEMINAR IN THE USA-Ralph Winnie, Jr. addressed ESCP Europe Energy Management Seminar at 9:30AM EST on June 18th 2018 at Washington Plaza Hotel

Dear Mr Winnie,

With the present letter, we would like to invite you to participate as a keynote speaker at the 4th ESCP Europe Energy Management Seminar in the USA. ESCP Europe the world’s oldest Business School which is ranked consistently within the top 10 Business School in Europe has a leading graduate study program in Energy Management that attracts future industry executives from all over the world.This year’s seminar which takes place under the auspices and with the cooperation of the US-based International Association for Energy Economics (www.iaee.org), brings our top graduate students to Washington DC and Houston for a combined lecturing and field-trip experience.Our group will be comprised of 27 students (17 from our full time MSc (MEM) and 10 from our Executive Master (EMEM)). Please note that the current class of MEM and EMEM students is truly multicultural and diverse, verifying the international dimension of all ESCP Europe master programmes. Our MEM students have 2 years of experience and are 25 years old on average whereas our EMEM students have at least 10 years of experience and are 35 years old on average. Our MEMs and EMEMs represent over 15 nationalities.

We would be honoured if you would accept our invitation to give a 60min lecture (including discussion) to our students about the U.S.-China relations on Monday 18th or Tuesday 19th June, ideally between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m at the  Washington Plaza hotel.

In anticipation of your positive response, we remain at your disposal to discuss further details.

Best regards,

Georgia Makridou

About ESCP Europe

Established in 1819, ESCP Europe is the first business school in the world. Its mission is to develop the next generation of transnational business leaders, preparing them to embrace the opportunities offered by cultural diversity.

With its six urban campuses in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Turin and Warsaw, ESCP Europe's true European Identity enables the provision of a unique style of cross-cultural business education and a Global Perspective on international management issues.

Through a combination of innovative pedagogy, cross-campus programmes and a research-active faculty, ESCP Europe is an essential contributor to the development of the transnational management culture so essential in today’s global business environment.Our network of 120 partner universities extends the School’s reach from European to worldwide. Triple-crown accredited (EQUIS, AMBA, AACSB), ESCP Europe welcomes 4,600 students and 5,000 executives from 100 different nationalities every year, offering them a wide range of general management and specialised programmes (Bachelor, Master, MBA, PhD and Executive Education).The School's 50,000-strong alumni network counts members from 150 nationalities. Together with its long-standing relationships with national and multinational companies, this network allows ESCP Europe to provide unique career opportunities on an international scale.The aspiration of ESCP Europe is the credo of Europe: to remain faithful to its humanistic values while at the same time anticipating the new ways of the world.

About the RCEM

Few would dispute the assertion that we are entering a new energy era: global demand for oil booms as supplies dwindle; price volatility and geopolitical instability are increasingly common, as are globalisation and market deregulation; and all the while environmental concerns grow. Both collectively and individually these factors call for a significant restructuring of the energy sector to improve efficiency and develop new sustainable energy sources.

The challenge is primarily technological but also managerial. Considering the amount of capital needed to boost energy supplies and promote the necessary technological innovations in a world of high uncertainty, expertise in project management, supply chain, finance, human resource and organisational management are of the utmost importance for decision making and forming policy.

Bringing together the expertise of its faculty and its many external international associates, the objective of the Research Centre for Energy Management (RCEM) at ESCP Europe Business School is to cooperate with, and possibly assist, key industry players to facilitatethe integration of managerial and technological skills.

The results of RCEM's research will become available to the public through publications, workshops and conferences, educational programmes and other public outreach activities. Research at RCEM will be enhanced through direct cooperation with government agencies, and academic and industry associates from across the globe.-- 

Georgia Makridou
Affiliate Professor; Assistant Director, Research Centre for Energy Management (RCEM)

Ralph Winnie, Jr. interview with Sputnik News regarding impact of Brexit

'Many Uncertainties': Analysts Explain What Future Holds for UK After Brexit

 

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom’s only recourse for avoiding an economic crisis from a hasty Brexit is to strike bilateral trade deals with key states such as the United States, China and Russia at once to facilitate a gradual pull out, analysts told Sputnik.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump told the Sun newspaper that if UK Prime Minister Theresa May goes forward with her "soft" Brexit proposal it would likely kill any prospects for a bilateral trade agreement with the United States. The comments come ahead of Trump’s meeting with May in London on Friday and in the wake of a ministerial exodus driven by disagreements over the prime minister’s plan.

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BREXITING
May’s so-called "soft" Brexit plan — which sees the United Kingdom staying in the EU Customs Union under a facilitated arrangement — has been derided by the "hard" Brexiteers who envisioned a clean break. Earlier this week, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Brexit secretary David Davis resigned over May’s compromise proposal for withdrawing from the EU.

Eurasian Business Coalition Vice President Ralph Winnie told Sputnik the UK needed to make major trade agreements with leading global powers.
The final pattern of such agreements could not be determined in advance but the UK government had to move decisively and systematically towards achieving them, Winnie advised.
"There are so many uncertainties in law and in the future patterns of international trade. The British have got to move one step at a time on this," he said.

 "The British people themselves are divided and confused. They are uncertain as to what it all means: So many of them have grown up as part of the EU. They don’t remember what life was like before it," Winnie noted.

TO STAY OR GO
Retired Brown University Assistant Professor of Economics Barry Friedman told Sputnik the British people had voted to gamble on Brexit exchanging their secure position within the EU for the freedom to set their own limits on immigration and trade.
After Brexit the UK would be free of the EU value-added tax system, Friedman added.

Those developments could reduce the UK’s domestic GDP, Friedman remarked.
"Other local companies will be glad to see the competitors go and may expand production or raise their prices or both," he said.
US President Donald Trump is scheduled to discuss US-UK future trade relations after Brexit in their talks on Friday, according to the Prime Minister’s Office in Downing Street, London.

The Brexit negotiations between London and the European Union started last year and are due to be completed by the end of March 2019. A model of the future economic partnership between the sides has proven to be one of the most contentious matters both in Brexit talks with Brussels and debates within the United Kingdom, as the recent high-profile resignations in the UK government showed.

The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a referendum in 2016, but the vote left the country divided almost equally into "Remainers" and "Brexiteers."

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