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Event: March 24, 2020
National Committee on United States-China Relations
WEBINAR: The Age of Mutual Disillusionment with Frank Langfitt [March 24 on Zoom at 5.00pm ]
I am a Brit who migrated to the USA in the 1960s. The economic progress of China during the last 30 years has been astonishing funded in large part by American corporate outsourcing. The economic decline for perhaps 80% of Americans in the past 30 years has been catastrophic with essentially no solution in sight. What is the answer to this conundrum? .
Peter Burgess
NCUSCR Events
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, this event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar.
How have the views of Chinese who may in the past have been attracted to the United States changed over the last 20 years? How have American perspectives on China shifted during the same period? National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent Frank Langfitt gained insights on many aspects of a changing China as he talked with passengers during taxi rides he provided for free in Shanghai. The NPR radio series that resulted inspired his first book, The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China.
Join the National Committee on March 24th, 5:00 - 6:30 PM EDT for a webinar with Frank Langfitt as he discusses what he learned from his passengers in Shanghai and beyond. He will also take questions from the audience.
Frank Langfitt is NPR’s London correspondent, covering Brexit, terrorism and other stories in Western Europe. Before going to the United Kingdom, he spent a decade as a reporter in China, most recently as NPR’s correspondent in Shanghai. In 2008, Langfitt covered the Beijing Olympics as a member of NPR’s team, which won an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. From 1997 to 2002, he was the Baltimore Sun’s Beijing correspondent, covering a swath of Asia from the Khyber Pass to East Timor. Langfitt is a graduate of Princeton and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
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