Fed Event: CISSM, Dec. 2nd, "China's Foreign Policy and China-U.S. Relations"

"China's Foreign Policy and China-U.S. Relations"
This event is co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland (CIM)

THURSDAY DECEMBER 2nd, 12:15―1:30 PM, 1203 VAN MUNCHING HALL

SPEAKER:

ZHOU JINGXING
Political Counselor, Chinese Embassy

Mr. Zhou Jingxing is a Political Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in the United States. He joined the Chinese Foreign Ministry in 1994 as a diplomatic interpreter. He has traveled to over 50 countries around the world as an interpreter for Chinese leaders, and participated in many major diplomatic events and international conferences. He served as a congressional liaison officer in the Chinese Embassy in the United States from 2002 to 2005. In early 2008, Mr. Zhou came back to Washington, D.C. for his second tour as a political officer after serving as Division Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Translation and Interpretation Department from 2005 to 2008.

Mr. Zhou was born and raised in Shandong Province, and attended high school in Liaoning Province. He received a BA degree from the Dalian University of Foreign Languages (1992), an LL.B. degree from the Foreign Affairs University in Beijing (1994), and an LL.M. degree from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (1998).

http://www.cissm.umd.edu/forum/uploads/December_2_Zhou_Jingxing.pdf