The Better Hong Kong Foundation will make its annual visit to the United States covering Washington D.C., New York, Boston and San Francisco between May 8th-18th, 2006.
The main purpose of the visit is to update the US Administration; Congress; think tanks; business and financial institutions; media and thought-leaders about the Hong Kong’s present situation, its constitutional development and economic outlook. At the same time, the foundation’s mission is to have the first hand information from the US interlocutors about American’s point of views on Hong Kong especially after the China’s President Hu Jintao’s State visit to the US and its impact on the US/China relations and its ramification on Hong Kong.
The foundation’s Chief Executive, Mr George Yuen remarked: “This two-way exchange will enable us to renew old acquaintances and to forge new ties. Clearly, it helps us to consolidate our network; broaden our horizon and to break new grounds as we have a balanced program covering important audiences from government; legislature; academia; business; media; think tanks and related NGOs”.
During the mission, the delegation will pay visit to the China Embassy in Washington D.C; consuls-general in New York and San Francisco together with meetings with directors-general in Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices and Chinese community in the hosting cities. The delegation, led by Mr Yuen comprises of former Secretary for Justice, Ms Elsie Leung; Ms Winnie Ng, Managing Director of Kowloon Motor Bus; Professor James Tang, Secretary of Social Science of University of Hong Kong; Mr Alejandro Reyes, Senior Writer and Visiting Scholar of University of Columbia and Ms Karen Tang, Executive Director of the Better Hong Kong Foundation (Designate).
Mr George Yuen concluded “It is fortunate to have a well-represented group to present the various aspects of Hong Kong special situation to our US thought-leaders, contacts and associates. It is also opportune to have the visit arranged in tandem with President Hu’s State visit to the United States so as to assess its impact on the US/China relations. We are most delighted to have former Secretary for Justice, Ms Elsie Leung to be our principal representative and we are thankful to our US partner, the US-Asia Institute to organize law forums for Secretary Leung to speak of the One Country, Two Systems and the importance of Rule of Law, being the core value contributing to making Hong Kong Asia’s world city. We are confident that our visit will be useful and constructive in fostering an even closer tie between Hong Kong and the United States.”
Program
May 8, 2006 (Mon) | Washington D.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
09:00-10:30 | Briefing by U.S.-Asia Institute on U.S. political scene & U.S.-China relations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12:00-13:30 | Lunch meeting with Chinese Embassy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14:00 | Meeting with Brookings Institution | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16:00 | Meeting with Cato Institute | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18:00 | Meeting with Reuters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19:30 | Dinner with US-China Education Trust & The Fund for American Studies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For enquires, please contact Ms Brenda Wong of the Better Hong Kong Foundation at 2865-3533.
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