From July 7-15, 1999, a Chinese Association for International Understanding (CAFIU) delegation studying U.S. federalism was hosted by AFPC in Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.

As part of an ongoing AFPC-People’s Republic of China (PRC) exchange, a nine person delegation headed by Mr. Wan Guoquan, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), visited Washington, Philadelphia, and New York, August 21-29, 1998.

Two Chinese scholars, Mr. Shi Huiye and Mr. Li Xiushan, arrived in Washington, D.C. on June 5, touching off a 10-day fact-finding mission.

As part of our ongoing involvement with the formal exchange between the U.S. Congress and the Russian Duma, AFPC hosted a dinner for the latest delegation of Duma members on May 19.

Without frank discussion of difficult issues in  U.S.-China relations, the room for miscalculation and misunderstanding grows.  As part of its commitment to educated decision-making, AFPC has just completed its Fall 1997 exchange with the Chinese Association for International Understanding (CAFIU).

In late September, 1992, AFPC sponsored a trip for senior policy analysts to Russia.  The delegation sought to achieve a deeper understanding of the difficult and complicated circumstances there.  The purpose of the trip was to study the economic, political and social situation in the country through a number of channels including meetings with Parliamentary leaders, government officials, journalists, business executives and others, and through general exposure to life in Moscow and its environs.

In the midst of last August’s coup, American policy makers and analysts were perplexed at the events taking place in the Soviet Union.  And while the coup failed, it demonstrated that many specialists inside and outside of government were lacking in critical information and of an informed perspective of events there. In order to ensure that American officials remain informed of events in the former Soviet Union, the American Foreign Policy Council arranged for a senior U.S. delegation to meet with top officials in the Soviet and Russian governments from November 24 to December 1, 1991. 

Key staffers from several U.S. Congressional and Senate offices received a unique opportunity recently to hear about the complex nature of reform in the Russian Republic—from the inside.  Mr. Vladimir O. Ispravnikov, a close advisor to Russian President Boris Yeltsin on economic reform and other issues, spoke to staffers as part of AFPC’s Congressional Foreign Study Project.  Mr. Gennady M. Gorchakov, another Yeltsin advisor as well as a member of both the Supreme Soviet of Russia and the Supreme Economic Council of Russia, accompanied Ispravnikov and also addressed the group.  Mr. Robert Reilly, a senior Editor at the Voice of America, introduced the speakers.

Mr. Andrei Kolosovsky, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Russian Embassy in Washington, was AFPC’s distinguished guest at a luncheon held in October.  The luncheon was another facet of AFPC’s Congressional Foreign Study Project and was attended by top staff members of the legislative branch.

Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev was the American Foreign Policy Council’s distinguished guest at a reception on April 21, 1991, in Washington, D.C.  The visit is a component of the American Foreign Policy Council’s ongoing effort to bring together prominent officials from both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to discuss issues of mutual interest.