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ITOR’s Note
Dr. Harley Seyedin It has always been a bittersweet time for me when the AmCham Youth
President Baseball League season comes to an end as it did early last month. I have
AmCham South China watched hundreds of kids grow from barely able to chase a ball to college
graduates achieving perhaps far greater things. We enjoy giving these kids the
opportunity to learn how to succeed … and to give them encouragement when
rain and other adversities get in the way. We can only hope the AmCham
Youth Soccer League has better weather when it begins in October.
Once again, we are organizing a delegation to go to the China International
Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) in the city of Xiamen in September. It is
essential to have up to date information to compete in today’s economy. This
is also the reason why we are hosting Neil Bush, the 41st President’s fourth
son, in July to discuss the Seventh George H.W. Bush China-U.S. Relations
Conference. The event will be held in Washington, D.C. October 29-31. The
senior Bush established the Conference 14 years ago as a bi-annual event and
has personally chaired the event.
In 1991, when I was still a businessman in Washington D.C. and before I left
for China, then President Bush personally wrote to me from the White House
thanking me for my “hard work and dedication” in “helping to assure the
extension of fast track procedures for implementing trade agreements.” The
time was filled with uncertainty, but President Bush’s knowledge of Chinese
trade was impressive due to previously holding the titles of Ambassador to
the United Nations and Envoy to China. President Bush wrote, “At stake was
our ability to continue to reap the prosperity and jobs that expanded trade has
meant and will mean for the United State economy.”
The question then, as it is now, was “whether the United States would
maintain its leadership role in the world economy.” The answer today is the
same as it was then. Of course we will, but it will take a great deal of hope,
knowledge, hard work… and a little bit of luck.
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Dr. Harley Seyedin It has always been a bittersweet time for me when the AmCham Youth
President Baseball League season comes to an end as it did early last month. I have
AmCham South China watched hundreds of kids grow from barely able to chase a ball to college
graduates achieving perhaps far greater things. We enjoy giving these kids the
opportunity to learn how to succeed … and to give them encouragement when
rain and other adversities get in the way. We can only hope the AmCham
Youth Soccer League has better weather when it begins in October.
Once again, we are organizing a delegation to go to the China International
Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) in the city of Xiamen in September. It is
essential to have up to date information to compete in today’s economy. This
is also the reason why we are hosting Neil Bush, the 41st President’s fourth
son, in July to discuss the Seventh George H.W. Bush China-U.S. Relations
Conference. The event will be held in Washington, D.C. October 29-31. The
senior Bush established the Conference 14 years ago as a bi-annual event and
has personally chaired the event.
In 1991, when I was still a businessman in Washington D.C. and before I left
for China, then President Bush personally wrote to me from the White House
thanking me for my “hard work and dedication” in “helping to assure the
extension of fast track procedures for implementing trade agreements.” The
time was filled with uncertainty, but President Bush’s knowledge of Chinese
trade was impressive due to previously holding the titles of Ambassador to
the United Nations and Envoy to China. President Bush wrote, “At stake was
our ability to continue to reap the prosperity and jobs that expanded trade has
meant and will mean for the United State economy.”
The question then, as it is now, was “whether the United States would
maintain its leadership role in the world economy.” The answer today is the
same as it was then. Of course we will, but it will take a great deal of hope,
knowledge, hard work… and a little bit of luck.
2 AmCham South China
