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$3 Million Carnegie Corporation Investment Supports Carnegie Endowment’s
China Policy Research Program
New Funding Marks the First Anniversary of Endowment’s
Re-launch—Pioneering the First Global Think Tank
Washington
and New York, January 9, 2008—Carnegie Corporation of
New York, a grantmaking foundation, and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, building the first global
think tank, today jointly announced a $3 million investment by the
Corporation in the Carnegie
China Program in Washington and Beijing.
“We
are immensely grateful to Carnegie Corporation of New York for its
generous support of and investment in the Endowment’s China
Program in Washington and Beijing, and particularly to its president,
Vartan Gregorian, for his leadership. Coming on the eve of the first
anniversary of the launch of our New Vision, this financial support
is a tremendous further endorsement of a key component of the mission
we are pursuing,” said Jessica T. Mathews, president of the
Carnegie Endowment.
“If
we are to move toward a more stable and prosperous world, it is
imperative that the United States redefine the nature of its relationships
with major and emerging powers,” said Vartan Gregorian, president
of Carnegie Corporation of New York. “We are particularly
in need of innovative research to inform our near– and long-term
policies toward China.”
Gregorian
added that the deep pool of subject matter expertise cultivated
by the Endowment in China and throughout the world will benefit
the partners as they seek to better understand the impact of globalization
on foreign, economic, and security policy making.
The
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was the first think tank
headquartered in the United States to establish a joint presence
in Beijing and Washington. Two core features distinguish the Endowment’s
work in China:
•
an unparalleled set of partnerships with the Endowment’s
lead partner, the China Reform Forum (CRF), and six other leading
Chinese institutions (see ‘Notes’ for details) and,
• the broad sweep of subject matter from international security
to energy and climate, economic policy, ethnic relations, domestic
society, and politics.
Most
recently, the Endowment began a multi-year project to move past
the gridlock that has prevented meaningful action by the United
States and China on climate change. In October 2007, the Program
partnered with China’s Energy Research Institute on a Beijing
workshop on “Energy Security and Climate: How Can the U.S.
and China Cooperate and Lead?”
The
Endowment has also held a series of conferences in Beijing that
draw on its staff in Washington, Beirut, and Moscow, as well as
Beijing. Together with CRF, it co-hosted meetings on “Rising
India: Opportunities and Lessons for China,” “New Security
Challenges in Northeast Asia,” “China’s Environmental
Protection System,” and “Energy Cooperation between
China, Russia, and Central Asia,” which included senior Russian
researchers from the Carnegie Moscow Center and a team from Washington.
A September 2007 conference explored the impacts of President Bush’s
policies on world order.
Andrew
Carnegie gave generously in support of peace, including his creation
in 1910 of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace “to
hasten the abolition of international war” and his endowment
in 1911 of Carnegie Corporation of New York to promote “the
advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.”
NOTES
•
The Carnegie China Program in Beijing and Washington
provides policy makers in both countries with a better understanding
of the dynamics within China and between United States and China.
In late 2005, the Carnegie Endowment established a joint Program
in China on globalization and international relations with the
China Reform Forum, a leading Chinese think tank. The mission
of the program is to advance research on the impact of globalization
on foreign policy making and promote scholarly exchange between
the two countries.
• Communication in Chinese is a critical
component of the Endowment’s work. The Endowment has an
active program of translations and original publications in Chinese,
including:
o ChinaNet, the Endowment’s Chinese-language
website, features international affairs content produced in
Chinese and translated from Carnegie publications, including
Foreign Policy magazine. The material includes articles
on economics, Chinese social and political change, Chinese foreign
policy, and U.S.-China relations, much of it not available from
any other source in China.
o The Endowment’s electronic newsletter, Carnegie
China Insight Monthly, is distributed to more than
4,000 high-caliber subscribers. Newsletter articles are regularly
reprinted in internal government publications and major Chinese
newspapers. Contributions from writers within China are growing.
• The Hong Kong Journal is an on-line quarterly
edited by Robert Keatley, former editor of the Asian Wall
Street Journal, and continues to draw a sizeable readership,
attracting 17,000 visitors and over 50,000 page views. The main
clusters of readers are in Hong Kong, the Washington, DC area,
New York City, Singapore, Beijing, London, and Sydney. The Endowment
is preparing to launch a Chinese translation of the quarterly.
• Reframing China Policy: The Carnegie Debates:
The series aims to candidly discuss the most pressing issues in
U.S.-China relations and to provide the most authoritative information
possible to policy makers on Capitol Hill who are shaping U.S.
foreign policy. Since its inception in Fall 2006, the China Program
has hosted seven debates on the most critical—and controversial—issues
involving China's economic, socio-political, and military evolution
and their policy implications.
• Building on the successful establishment of the Carnegie
Moscow Center fourteen years ago, and following its century-long
practice of adapting to radically-changed global circumstances,
the Endowment is undertaking a fundamental re-definition
of its role and mission. In a two-day series of events
to publicly launch the NEW VISION, the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace announced that it has added operations in
Beijing, Beirut, and Brussels to its existing offices in Washington
and Moscow, pioneering the idea that a think tank whose mission
is to contribute to global security, stability, and prosperity
requires a permanent international presence and a multinational
outlook at the core of its operations.
About Carnegie Corporation of New York:
•
The Corporation supports work to redefine the country’s
engagement with the world in an era of rapidly advancing globalization.
The organizations it supports are engaging experts and policy
makers from the United States, China, India, Russia and possibly
other countries to generate new knowledge to inform U.S. foreign
and security policies.
• For additional information about work funded under the
Corporation’s U.S. Global Engagement Program, please click
here.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York recently reconfirmed
and re-committed its programmatic focus to address the primary
concerns to which founder Andrew Carnegie devoted the foundation:
international peace and advancing education and knowledge.
• For more information on Carnegie Corporation,
please visit: www.carnegie.org
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