Congressional-Executive Commission on China invite you to a hearing on
“Google and Internet Control in China . A Nexus Between Human Rights and Trade?”
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The recent Google controversy with China raises the question of whether China's regulation of the Internet is both a human rights and a trade issue. Witnesses will examine the challenges and hazards China's regulation of the Internet poses both to advocates of free expression and to foreign companies doing business in China; and possible ways for policymakers and private actors to respond to China's regulation of the Internet from both the human rights and trade perspectives. Witnesses will include technology industry representatives and human rights advocates.

Witnesses:

Alan Davidson, Director of U.S. Public Policy, Americas, Google, Inc.

Christine Jones, Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, The Go Daddy Group

Sharon Hom, Executive Director, Human Rights in China

Edward Black, President and CEO, Computer & Communications Industry Association

Ambassador Mark Palmer

The hearing will be webcast.

All CECC hearings are open to the public and press. No RSVP is necessary.