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Robert Lawrence Kuhn Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is a public intellectual, international corporate strategist and investment banker, and a renowned expert on China. He is a commentator on the BBC, CNN, CGTN, CCTV, CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, and other media; senior political/economics commentator on China Global Television Network (CGTN); and a columnist in China Daily and South China Morning Post. For 30 years, Dr. Kuhn has worked with China's state leaders and advised the Chinese government. He spoke at the launch ceremony of President Xi Jinping's book, The Governance of China; he provided live commentary on CNN for Xi's policy address during his U.S. state visit (2015); and he introduced to foreign audiences Xi as "core" of the CPC (2016). He is interviewed extensively on US-China relations, including the trade war (2018). For the 19th CPC National Congress (October 2017) and 13th National People's Congress (March 2018), Dr. Kuhn was interviewed extensively, including 24 times on CNN and BBC World News / BBC World Service, and he was quoted in newspapers and websites in U.S., Hong Kong, Italy, India, etc. His full-page, in-depth analyses of the 19th CPC National Congress were featured in China Daily to open the CPC Congress ("Historical Starting Point for New Stage of Development") and to close the CPC Congress ("New Era on the Road to 2050"). His essay at the opening of the Party Congress was published in People's Daily. Dr. Kuhn is the author of How China's Leaders Think (featuring President Xi), and The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin (China's best-selling book of 2005). He wrote the Introduction for Understanding the CPC, the book series by China's ruling party, the Communist Party of China (2015). Shanghai Media Group and Dr. Kuhn are co-creators and co-producers of the award-winning, five- part series China's Challenges, broadcast internationally (PBS stations in the U.S.) and in China. Dr. Kuhn is writer and host; Peter Getzels is director. China's Challenges won first prize in China News Awards twice (2013, 2018). A second season won an Emmy Award (Los Angeles, 2016). A third season (on "Xi Jinping Thought" and China 2020 / China 2050) is broadcast in late 2018. Dr. Kuhn is the creator, co-producer and host of "Closer to China with R.L.Kuhn" on CGTN (China Global Television Network, co-created by Adam Zhu), the weekly series with unique access that features China's thought leaders and decision makers, broadcast globally and in China. Closer To China focuses on China's politics and government, CPC/Party, economics and society, reform and development, and international affairs and relations, with emphasis on Xi's policies and philosophy. A special documentary on President Xi's "targeted poverty alleviation" campaign, co-produced by CGTN, Dr. Kuhn and Adam Zhu, is in production. Dr. Kuhn is host and writer. Peter Getzels is director. Dr. Kuhn was one of only two Americans, with Henry Kissinger, named as the first "China Visionaries". He was selected by Oriental Outlook magazine (Xinhua News Agency) as one of the all-time, top-ten influential supporters of China's ruling party/CPC (he is the only one living). An international corporate strategist and investment banker, Dr. Kuhn works with major multinational corporations, CEOs and C-Suite executives, in formulating and implementing China strategies by applying his "politico-strategic framework". He was president/co-owner of the largest middle-market firm in the U.S. (sold to Citigroup in 2000). Dr. Kuhn is creator, writer and host of Closer To Truth (produced and directed by Peter Getzels), the long-running PBS/public television series on science and philosophy (broadcast continually since 2000, over 275 TV episodes; more are in production). Dr. Kuhn is author or editor of over 30 books on China, corporate strategy, finance, science and philosophy (including, with the philosopher John Leslie, The Mystery of Existence: Why is there Anything At All). Dr. Kuhn is chairman of The Kuhn Foundation which supports new knowledge in science and philosophy, classical music, and informed relations between the United States and China. The Kuhn Foundation produced the feature documentary "Khachaturian" on the life and music of the Armenian-Russian composer Aram Khachaturian, which won the Best Documentary award at the Hollywood Film Festival. Dr. Kuhn has a B.A. Human Biology (Johns Hopkins); . Anatomy/Brain Research (University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA); MBA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT). EFTA00800267  CNN Quest Means Business Future of U.S.-China Trade Relations Robert Lawrence Kuhn, August 27, 2018 LIVE TRUMP ON CHINA TRADE: "NOT THE RIGHT TIME TO TALK" 835 PM GMT WIWI QUEST MEANS BUSINESS 1 EFTA00800268 Ai?" CNBC CNBC Squawk on the Street US-China Tariffs - US-China Trade War Robert Lawrence Kuhn, August 22, 2018 CNBC SEARCH MENU MARKETS BUSINESS NEWS INVESTING TECH POLITICS CNBC TV US and China have self- fulfilling prophecies on both sides for trade... 10:40 AM ET Wed. 22 Aug 2018 Robert Kuhn, China government advisor and "How China's Leaders Think" author, discusses his expectations for the next round of U.S: trade talks that begin today. 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Usually the NPC is seen as sort of a choreographed event: we know what to expect. But this time it felt very different. RLK: It certainly was different. You have to look at this year's National People's EFTA00800272  B B C --- -- 4- Congress - and the so-called , Two Sessions - as part of the Ilk "political season" which 1111 begins with the party . 's --_, congress in October and goes - ,__- now to the government sessions in March. And lit .4, -,.. normally there is a i p litst, -,._ •-• _ predictability and what a happens at the National Art IMPACT People's Congress is not very CHINA'S NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS CLOSES significant. Xi: China would defeat any attempt to divide country MN WORLD NEWS EURO 1.1407 ', CS 1.4 • C HKS 10.5E . RLK: This year is different: LIVE Boiling China talks about a "New lart; AS Era" - and this is not just .. words, it is really the case. If 1 \ gi v P ' 11•1 T SI POMPM. VS. APOIMEn we look at the vision that Xi - . _ 1 Jinping gave at the party - - -- congress, what we see here k - ill• _ sh Se awl. sea at the National People's Congress we see as the _ implementation of that vision •3ii across a very broad front. CHINA'S NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS CLOSES lows officials to visit island rwirq WONT. n NEWS EN 106.43 1NEOSITE YOU CAN GET MORE ON ALL THE 2 EFTA00800273  B B C LIVE Local Time 22:05 RLK: People have focused on ...-. term limits - understandably t \I? so - but the change is only for 1:4' ill. ;44, in "Ipsommes SRO the presidency. Xi Jinping by ._ 'LA ,ffr having been made "Core" of _ -4, -. . t i.... t the Party in October 2016 - .. . , actually with that designation a -.gum undermined "collective leadership" - and when Xi's name was put into the Party CHINA'S NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS CLOSES Xi spoke of a "China solution" to world problems Constitution as the CICHil WORLD NEWS DRIES AT blec.corninews • CHECK OUT OUR FACEBOC contemporary arbiter of LIVE Time 22:05 Marxism - on which the Party is based and the Party rules •I4 the country - he then became in the overarching leader, no t F- t .i IIISP---- --------" a r matter he position fwhat . .gs would hold. ‘10 tl Ilk el' . ire I. - \I CHINA'S NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS CLOSES Xi spoke of a "China solution" to world problems BBC • • • • • . • 3 EFTA00800274  CNN International President Xi Jinping, China, Term Limits Robert Lawrence Kuhn - March 12, 2018 HOST: Let's talk about President Xi Jinping with our gues,t Robert Lawrence Kuhn, a longtime advisor to the Chinese government, the author of How China's Leaders Think, and the host of Closer to China with R.L. Kuhn on the China Global Television Network. Thanks for being with us. RLK: Hi Natalie. Interesting day we're having. HOST: Isn't it, though? So, I guess the first question would be to follow up on your book title, how China's leaders think. What is Xi Jinping thinking with this move? PARLIAMENT VOTES TO END PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS EFTA00800275 RLK: First of all, we have to understand it in context. There are twenty-one different clauses in this 4:33PM Constitutional Amendment, and the whole point of it is to strengthen the governance system of China. Now China is a party-state system where the party controls the state. Everyone is focusing on the abolition of term limits, and it is important, but we need to understand the context within this party-state system. In October of 2016, Xi Jinping was made "Core" of the Party, which meant the collective leadership of the past was no longer operative; that X was, in essence, for the Party, the decision maker. Then just this last October at the 19th CPC National Congress, his name was put into the Party Constitution as "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New PARLIAMENT VOTES TO END PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS Era,"... it's a big phrase. Author. "How China's Leaders Think RLK: But what it means is that Xi is the arbiter of Marxism and party theory. That means in terms of being the Core of the Party and the interpreter of Marxism that gives him ultimate power. He doesn't even need a formal position when has those two and the Party continues to run the country. HOST: Is that a good thing? How can it be a good thing for the country when one person has the ultimate power? RLK: There are two issues. One is how it happened: Now -4; emOrr*,% the abolition of presidential term limits coordinates with the -07" • 4r...rip, ...amp.. ***;yr in:I=•• • IP mos MrIF • is Or . e • Party and military, together the three largest positions. So CHINA PAESIDENCY ...r.""" they're now coordinated because he already had that power in the Party and the military. 2 EFTA00800276  Amanpour on CNN President Xi Jinping, China, Term Limits Robert Lawrence Kuhn - Minxin Pei March 5, 2018 HOST: When it comes to trade, one country more than any other has been the target of Trump's • 4,4 A a .•• -4,8•0 • 0 • • • SOO • • • •• •• • • •0 • • I *so 00 • Se Of rhetorical wrath, and that's China. But my next • •••• 415 • if • .. • 4.• % . SO • .. •• • guest tells me that the promised tariffs won't ••• • 1 4 • 0 • • • • • • bother China much, as we've been discussing. In • • • • ;V .: •• any way, they in China are dealing with much more • • , . • 4 • • a ••• important things, like the proposal for the rubber • • 500 . • • • 00 •• • • 40 stamp Party Congress which starts its new session • • -0'09 • • II • • • • today to change the Constitution, and lift all term • 00 limits on President Xi Jinping, effectively making '. 2.. • • .• • 1 • him president for life. Now, I've been talking to • i• Minxin Pei: he's a professor of government at 4.6 • .. • Claremont McKenna College in California, and to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, who is the author of How • China's Leaders Think, and he is the host of a show • on the government-run CCTV news channel in Beijing. Gentlemen welcome to you both. Let me 0 start by asking you, Robert Lawrence Kuhn there in • Beijing. From the Chinese government perspective, these tariffs that the president of the United States has announced, how much does it concern Beijing? EFTA00800277 RLK: Well certainly it's a concern, but I would call it a minor annoyance as opposed to something extremely serious. They have a lot on their plate here. The last thing they want is a trade war with the U.S., but they have to react. If the U.S. does something, there has to be something that they will do in retaliation. They will ratchet it down. They will signal, as you do, that they do not want to accelerate this, but to save face and to be appropriate, they'll have to match it. HOST: To you Minxin Pei, how do you see this playing out? MP: If the investigations find China at fault, or guilty of some practices, then the US has a wide range of options to punish China on a trade front. And if these things happen, then US-China trade war will take place. Another thing I want to say is that US-China relations have turned a corner. This is a relationship that has headed toward a long period of confrontation, and adversarial relationships. So what is going to happen on the trade front is part of a much larger picture of geopolitical rivalry, if not competition. 2 EFTA00800278  Bloomberg Bloomberg TV Worldwide President Xi, China, Economy Robert Lawrence Kuhn March 5, 2018 HOST: You were there at the Great Hall of the People. What was your main takeaway from what some have described as Li LLLienL. Kegiang's impossible challenge: how to deleverage, how to take • away stimulus, and still keep 6.5% growth? 'PtPIP^IPpr RLK: I don't take the 6.5% growth as the primary objective here. I mean you have to look at what these National Peoples Congresses are. They're not setting the vision and the strategy. That was set at the party congress in October. What we're dealing here is the implementation of the policies. If you attend these every year you know they all look and sound the same because it's the same structure, same kind of structure of numbers, so what you do is look for the differences. What are those subtle differences between one year and another. That's what I focus on at these congresses. HOST: What's the main difference you saw? 1 EFTA00800279  B B C BBC World News Xi Jinping and the New Politburo Standing Committee Robert Lawrence Kuhn October 25, 2O17 HOST: We're going to put a question to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, who's a long-time advisor to the Chinese government. Robert, great to see you again. You were with us at the very beginning of the Party Congress and you were at the Congress today when it finished. Did you have any vision, any inkling that President Xi Jinping would take on so much authority? Also, what about the fact that there is no successor candidates among the new leaders? RLK: I was interviewed in early 2012 by a well-known American television network and the question put to me, in January of that year, was, "isn't Xi Jinping going to be a DOB WC,RED NEWS DRK TESLA SOLAR POWER ARRIVES IN PUERTO RI very weak leader because he was not appointed by Deng Xiaoping and he has no strong base of support?" 1 EFTA00800280  CNN International Xi Jinping and the New Politburo Standing Committee Robert Lawrence Kuhn - October 26, 2017 HOST: The author of How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story ofPast, Current and Future Leaders, Robert Lawrence Kuhn is a longtime advisor to the Chinese government. He comes to us once again from Beijing. We talked this time yesterday. Good to have you back. And we discussed yesterday what we would learn about that lineup of the standing committee. It hadn't been revealed at that point that we spoke, but we now know and is it correct to say the most significant thing is no sign of a leader in waiting? RLK: I think the most significant sign is who the people are and how they relate to each other. It's a group that actually respects traditional norms. RLK: There was thought that Wang Qishan, for example, might violate norms by being on the Standing Committee after the traditional retirement age and that's not the case. There is balance among the member in terms of their geographies, even their political affiliations within the party which internally are important. Two are from Shanghai, two are from the Communist Youth League - one is actually from Shanghai and the Youth League as well but he's really from Shanghai - two have a long relationship with General I I Secretary Xi. And then of course General Secretary Xi has CHINA'S NEW POWER PLAYERS the overarching power as everyone says - and that is correct and will be correct for a long time to come. EFTA00800281  CCTV/CG TN II 12:07 PM I M P dipl. 411 BREAKING NEWS CHINA NAMES NEW SEVEN -MEMBER LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE a :C'S 42 OF PRESIDENT XI JINPING CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY ALREADY ELEVATED STATURE I. • EFTA00800282  Bee h. Cum A DAILY Tuesday. (nary 23.2018 C VISION CHINA Observers offer fresh insight for new era Intellectual hails progress made in past while warning VISION CHINA - of challenges that lie ahead Niewpa low Dinkins ByIaYANG Robert Lawrence Kuhn has many titles. ranging from investment banker to anatomy researcher. But he is better known inChina as a spe- cialist who knows the country inside out. Over the past 29 years, he has visited almost every provincial region and spoken with people from all walls of life. including some who have gone on to become State lead- G6 I like to understand lth been a great gift to my life to new era in two catego- be able to learn so much about Ctd- nah rich civilization. political theo- ries: its characteristics ries and the whole development" he said. at home and abroad, Kuhn. who is from the United States. learns as an outsider but and its timeline' communicates as an insider. In his talk show Closer to [lino with R.L. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, investment banker and anatomy researcher Kuhn on the China Global Televi- sion Network he presents China's complex story to the world through From left Zhao lenge" head of the international commtnication bureau of the Publkity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee: Jiang candid, intimate discussions with Q&A I ROBERT Qtigzhe. Party thief of the University of International Business and Economics: Chita Daily reporter Mow Aloady:Guo Ykimin. vicernirister of the Information the country's decision-makers. LAWRENCE KUHN Office of the State Coon* speakers Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Liu Xirc Zhou Shuchun. publisher and ecitix.in.thief of Chin Daily: and Zhang _tannin. head of In a hotel suite in WangfujIng. translation aid Oterpretation for the Minntry of Foreign Affairs. pose for a photo at the inaugural %AsianChina event on Monday at UIBE. roi4 yonicow • 0104 war downtown Beijing. one busy lunch- You hold multiple titles now time last week. Kuhn shared his How have you managed to thoughts on Chinese politics with China Daily.between exercising and a meeting of the Communist Party master so many different fields? Do they have any in common? British journalist tells China's story to the world What they say ofChink which he had been invited Vision Chi- to attend as an observer. There's one word to describe na is the 611 He spoke passionately about the the commonality that is"pas- ANDREW MOODY first high. 19th CPC National Congress. which sten". Whatever Redone I Despite living and working in Chi- end event was held In Beijing in October. want to have passion for it.lb na fora dtt-ade.Andtew ',toady's abil- Hera do you overcome the organzed describing It as "a milestone con- expand that albit it's the pas- ity to speak Mandarin is still at a basic challenges of showing the by China gress that set the agenda for more sion to learn..not here to level. Yet that has not stopped the real China to the world. Daily and than 30 )ears". teach. I low to learn. When I awardwinningjourrtalist from inter- especially to those who have UIBE after the No sides The Party proposed two new con- write a new book it's some- preting China's story for the world. biases against China? launched a partnership. By cepts at the congress —'a new era thing I want to learn about. I Moody joined China Daily nine telling Chna's stores in an of socialism with Chinese charac- use that vehicle to learn. So yeas ago and is now a senior corre- ) a long-term thing. and objective and rational manner. teristics" and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Charac- teristics for a New Era. which has been written into the Party Consti- passion about learning Is the common denominator.China has given me a hugely rich life because of everything I've spondent. He has written more than 150 cover stories for the paper's Euro- pean Weekly and African %%Wkly. examining a wide range of issues ‘6 The real fun of 5,01.1 cannot change this over- night. There are negative per- ceptions about China. Ith about engagement. IfChina it aims to help students get to know a real China and an objective wodd. and to under- stand China in the new era. tution. learned here. including the Belt and Road Initiative. has much more interactions Wang Ranking. president of 1b understand China today. it is The jabhas providedhim with first- reporting in China is with the rest of the world. then the Onitersity oflnletnatthnal critical to appreciate what the new hand experience of how China is people will see China as It Business andEconornts era means.... I like to understand dewloping as well as the chance to the closeness to the actually is. One of the 2015 new era in two categories: its char- record reactions from the outside objectives is to better increase acteristics at home and abroad. and Thought on Socialism with Chinese world. especially in the West, toward actual story; the big China's soft power. Organize- Relearned its timeline' Kuhn said. Characteristics for a New Era — the nation's growth and changes. tions like China Daily can actu- a lot from He has obviously developed his with he broke down into three cat- He was at the Great Hall of the fascinating story of ally playa role in improving Vision Chi• own way of explaining terms with Chinese characteristics. That is to egories: serve the people. national rejuvenation. and governance mod- People to hear General Secretary Xi Jinping deliver a report to the China merging into China's soft power. But I do think it's a long.term process. na today. What b