Letters of Support 

"[Global] China Connection is a well-known forum and I am sure you [will] have a significant impact on the future course of development of Chinese new leaders." 

-- Nomura Holdings Managing Director, Ken Yan

A wide variety of men and women have sent GCC letters of support since our creation in 2008. Distinguished individuals from a diverse array of fields have written us letters indicating that they stand with us as we strengthen relations between China and the rest of the world:

• Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator (New York)
• Gary Ackerman, U.S. Congressman (New York)
• Carolyn Maloney, U.S. Congresswoman (New York) 
• Jerold Nadler, U.S. Congressman (New York)
• Eliot Engel, U.S. Congressman (New York)
• Nita M. Lowey, U.S. Congresswoman (New York)
• Michael M. Honda, U.S. Congressman (California)
• Sara McCalpin, President of the China Institute
• Wang Huiyao, Ph.D, Director General of the Center for China and Globalization
• Debora L. Spar, President of Barnard College
• Bill Thompson, Former comptroller of New York City and 2009 Democratic mayoral nominee
• Weiying Zhang, Dean of Guanghua School of Management at Peking University 
• Letter from Wang Songtao, signed by Tsinghua University General Sectary Wang Singtao, Dean of International Cooperation and Exchange Luo Lisheng, and Dean of Student Affairs Du Huiliang. 
• Lynn White, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University
• Dwight Perkins, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University
• Xinzhong Xu, Assistant Dean of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University
• Wang Songtao, General Secretary of SUTU at Tsinghua University
• Introductory Letter to the Administration of Peking University Signed by former Columbia University Provost Alan Brinkley and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
• Richard Lai, Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
• Huang Shan, Secretary of Sun Yat-Sen Youth League committee at Sun Yat-Sen University