Committee on International Relations
 U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515-0128

Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations
Christopher H. Smith (NJ), Chairman
and
 Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
James A. Leach (IA), Chairman

***REVISED***

February 8, 2006

 

TO:  MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

 

You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building:  

 

DATE:                       Wednesday, February 15, 2006

 

                        TIME:                        10:00 a.m.

 

SUBJECT:               The Internet in China: A Tool for Freedom or Suppression?

 

            WITNESSES:           Panel I

                                                      Mr. James Keith

                                                      Senior Advisor for China and Mongolia

                                                      Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

                                                      U.S. Department of State

 

                                                The Honorable David Gross

                                                Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications and Information Policy

                                                Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs

                                                U.S. Department of State

 

                                                Panel II

                                                      Mr. Michael Callahan

                                                      General Counsel

                                                      Yahoo! Inc.

                                                     

                                                      Mr. Jack Krumholtz

                                                      Managing Director of Federal Government Affairs and

                                                      Associate General Counsel

                                                      Microsoft Corporation

                                                     

                                                      Mr. Elliot Schrage

                                                      Vice President for Corporate Communications

                                                      and Public Affairs

                                                      Google, Inc.

                                                     

                                                      Mr. Mark Chandler

                                                      Vice President and General Counsel

                                                      Cisco Systems, Inc.

 

                                                Panel III

                                                      Ms. Libby Liu

                                                      President

                                                      Radio Free Asia

                                                     

                                                      Mr. Xiao Qiang

                                                      Director

                                                      China Internet Project

                                                      University of California-Berkeley

                                                     

                                                      Ms. Lucie Morillon

                                                      Washington Representative

                                                      Reporters Without Borders

 

                                                      Mr. Harry Wu

                                                      Publisher

                                                      China Information Center 

                           

                                                  ***Ms. Sharon Hom
                                                      Executive Director
                                                      Human Rights in China 

NOTE:  ***Witness has been added

By Direction of the Chairman

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