joining the panel discussion will be our own professor david lampton, professor lampton is one of the leading scholars of china today, through the years many students, faculty and institutions have benefited from his wise counsel and scholarship on china. we are also joined by cui liru, former president of the chain institute of contemporary international relations. he currently serves as senior advisor to multiple institutions for the study of national security and foreign relations. he specializes in u.s. foreign policy, u.s.-china relations, international security issues, and chinese foreign policy. and it is wonderful to be welcoming him to sais today. it is also my great pleasure to introduce amy celico, a principle of albright stonebridge group and leads the firms china team in washington, d.c. drawing on her expertise in u.s. government, she has deep understanding of nonfinancial service sector in china, intellectual property rights, and u.s.-china trade relations. we're also proud to say that she's a graduate of johns hopkins sais and a graduate of our hopkins center. thank yo

lampton: good evening. can everyone hear me? if my voice gets too far away from the microphone, just wave. i am glad to be here this evening. was trying to think about how long we have known each other. 25 years or 30, at least. our gray hair is one indication. anyway, thank you so much for your remarks and thank you all for being here. cui's remarks are very much like an article he wrote in 2011. about six years ago in a very rapidly changing world. it is a measure of his deep thoughts that he could write in 2000 11, something that is meaningful, essentially, today as well. 2000 11, he said that china can no longer remain a bystander surveying the world beyond the seas. i think you said that was a quote from mao. an it was much rather act as insider. he called for china to play a greater role in the world in a responsible way. like today, he talked about how power in the world was rebalancing in the direction of china. i think that is obvious. and that the united states and china needed to jointly manage ,hat you called at that