Baker to Deliver Keynote Address at Conference on China

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BAKER TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT CONFERENCE ON CHINA

James A. Baker, III, the 61st U.S. Secretary
of State, will deliver a keynote address on Friday, Feb. 9, at a
conference focusing on policy and business challenges facing the
United States with respect to China.

The conference, entitled “China and the United States:
Challenges for U.S. Policy and Business,” will be held Feb. 9-10 at
the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston. The James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy at Rice University and the Asia Society are
cosponsors of the event.

Baker is scheduled to deliver his speech at the conference
dinner on Feb. 9, starting at 7:30 p.m.
Other keynote speakers at the conference include Sun Zhenyu,
Vice Minister for Foreign Trade of the People’s Republic of China;
and Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of the American
International Group, Inc. and Chairman of the Board of the Asia
Society.

Also on the conference program are Han Sung-Joo, former Foreign
Minister of Korea; Roberto R. Romulo, former Secretary of Foreign
Affairs of the Philippines; Winston Lord, Assistant U.S. Secretary
of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Kenneth L. Lay,
Chairman and CEO of Enron Corporation; and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey
Hutchison, R-Texas.
Baker Institute Director Edward P. Djerejian and Nicholas Platt,
President of the Asia Society, will open the conference.