Sun Zhe, professor of the Institute for International Studies and Director of the Center for U.S.-China Relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing
With Mark Leonard, Executive Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and author of What Does China Think? (4th Estate); Jonathan Fenby, former editor of the Observer and the South China Morning Post and author of forthcoming Penguin History of Modern China (May 2008); Rob Gifford, London Bureau Chief of US National Public Radio and author of China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power (Bloomsbury) and Brad Adams, Asia Director, Human Rights Watch. Chair: Nick Cohen, columnist for the Observer and New Statesman.
Qin Yaqing, Executive Vice President at China Foreign Affairs University and member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Xu Jicheng, Deputy Director of the Media Operations Department, the Beijing 2008 Olympic Organizing Committee
Kishore Mahbubani, Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, on his new book The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East.