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    Connecting Washington and China: The Story of the Washington State China Relations Council
    Connecting Washington and China: The Story of the Washington State China Relations Council
    Connecting Washington and China: The Story of the Washington State China Relations Council
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    Connecting Washington and China: The Story of the Washington State China Relations Council

    By Wendy Liu

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    Foreword

    Joseph J. Borich

    President, Washington State China Relations Council

    As a relatively junior Foreign Service Officer working on the State
    Departments China Desk in 1978, I found myself in an ideal fly-on-the-
    wall situation from which to observe and peripherally contribute to
    the chain of events that would lead to the full normalization of relations
    between the U.S. and China on January 1, 1979.

    By January 1980, I was in China helping to reopen the U.S. consulate
    general there after a 30-year hiatus. Although I did not imagine it at
    the time, I would spend much of the final 17 years of my Foreign
    Service career involved with China. During that time I encountered
    the Washington State China Relations Council its executive directors,
    board members, member company representatives and delegates of
    various WSCRC-led missions on a number of occasions. In the
    process my knowledge of and respect for the WSCRC and its mission
    grew with each passing year.

    Perhaps it was destiny that the WSCRCs executive director position
    should become vacant in 1997 at the same time that I retired from
    the Foreign Service. Whether by fate or coincidence I was ineluctably
    drawn to accept the Councils offer of employment, an acceptance that
    years later I have found no reason to regret.

    Washington is one of only a handful of states that have found
    compelling reasons to establish and support a China-centric nonprofit
    business association like the WSCRC, and the WSCRC remains the
    oldest and arguably best known of these. The foresight of the WSCRCs
    founders tying together Washington states historical links to China with
    the suddenly unleashed but still not well understood new opportunities
    for business with China on a massive scale has been fully justified by
    history. Today Washington leads all states on a per capita basis in trade
    with China and is the only state to maintain a trade surplus with China.
    This is very important because no other state is nearly as dependent on
    foreign trade as Washington nearly one job in three here is directly
    tied to international trade. The vision of the WSCRCs founders in
    1979 has withstood the test of time.

    I congratulate Wendy Liu for writing Connecting Washington and
    China, published originally in 2005, and for updating it with new
    content. The Washington State China Relations Council has in more
    than a quarter century become an institution in the state of Washington
    and in the realm of post-normalization U.S.-China relations. As such, its
    story is certainly worth telling. But, this work also reflects an intensely
    personal voyage of discovery for Ms. Liu, with her own metamorphosis
    on her journey from China to the United States and from normalization
    through Tiananmen and beyond. That, too, is a story worth telling.

    Seattle, November 2009
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateNov 29, 2005
    ISBN9780595819034
    Connecting Washington and China: The Story of the Washington State China Relations Council
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    Wendy Liu

    Wendy Liu is originally from Xi’an, China. She earned a master’s degree in Technology And Science Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has been a consultant, translator, and writer. Her writings include op-eds on China in The Seattle Times. Liu has lived in Seattle, Washington, for twenty-five years.

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