Register Now: Can China and the U.S. Compete Without Conflict?
John A. Quelch, American President of Duke Kunshan University, joins CCG for a discussion on managing competition and preserving cooperation in China–U.S. relations
The Center for China and Globalization (CCG) will host Professor John A. Quelch, American President and Executive Vice Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, for a dialogue with Henry Huiyao Wang, Founder and President of CCG. The dialogue, themed “Coopetition: How Can China and the U.S. Coexist?”, will conclude with a live audience Q&A.
Event Information
Date: 23 July, 2026
Venue: Beijing
Language: English
Format: A dialogue between Professor John A. Quelch and CCG President Henry Huiyao Wang, followed by an audience Q&A
American President and Executive Vice Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, Distinguished Professor of Social Science at DKU and the John DeButts Professor at the Fuqua Business School, Duke University. Between 2017 and 2022, he was the Leonard M. Miller University Chair, Vice Provost of the University of Miami and Dean of the Miami Herbert Business School. Before 2017, he was both the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health.
Professor Quelch has substantial experience as a non-executive director. In the United States, he has served on the boards of Alere (14 years), Amerant Bancorp (4), Aramark (5), Gentiva Health Services (4), Pepsi Bottling Group (6) and Reebok International (12). He has also served as a board member of three pre-IPO data analytics companies, Datalogix and Vitrue (both sold to Oracle) and Affinnova (sold to A.C. Nielsen). He currently serves as a director of GenScript, Smithfield Foods and the fintech Surfin Meta.
In the United Kingdom, Professor Quelch served on the board of WPP, the world’s leading marketing services company, for 25 years (including seven years as chair of the audit committee). In the UK, he has also been a director of Blue Circle Industries (2), easyJet (3) and Pentland Group (3).
Professor Quelch has significant experience as a board chairman. He was appointed pro bono chairman of the Massachusetts Port Authority following the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 and served three Massachusetts governors, both Republican and Democrat, during his eight year tenure. He also served pro bono for thirteen years as Honorary Consul General in New England for the Kingdom of Morocco and three years as Chairman of the British American Business Council of New England.
Professor Quelch’s executive experience includes service as Dean of three business schools: London Business School (1998-2001), China Europe International Business School (2011-2013) and Miami Herbert Business School (2017-2022). He is one of only three persons to have served as Dean of three leading business schools on three continents.
Professor Quelch is an expert on corporate strategy, global brand-building and customer behavior. His books include Choice Matters: How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions (Oxford University Press, 2018), Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016) and All Business is Local: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World (Penguin Portfolio, 2012). He is (co)author of seventeen Harvard Business Review articles including a landmark paper on corporate governance titled “Bringing Customers Into the Boardroom”.
Professor Quelch was educated at Oxford University (BA and MA), the University of Pennsylvania (MBA) and Harvard University (SM and DBA). He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to British business in 2011 and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2020. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Henry Huiyao Wang
Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and former Counsellor to the China State Council.
Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang is Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), Former Counselor to China State Council appointed by Chinese Premier. In addition, he is a former Vice Chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation (CAIEC) under the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), former Vice Chairman, China Talent Research Society under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. He is also a former Vice Chairman of China Public Relations Association; currently he is Standing Director of China Institute of International Economic Relations under PBOC, and a Director of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and a Director of China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, both organizations under the supervision of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Dr. Wang is a Steering Committee Member of Paris Peace Forum and Metropolis International and was an Advising Board Member for International Organization of Migration (IOM) of the UN. He is a Distinguished Professor of China Foreign Affairs University and sits on the Advising Board of Richard Ivey Business School of Canada, Advisory Committee for Global Competence Development of Tsinghua University. He was the former Dean of the Institute of Development at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China.
Prior to founding CCG, Wang worked in both the public and private sectors at home and abroad. He was a former official at the then Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC), and later served as Chief Trade Representative for the Canadian Quebec Government Office in Hong Kong and Greater China, Managing Director of Asia at SNC-Lavalin, and Vice President at AMEC-AGRA in Canada.
Dr. Wang pursued his PhD degree at University of Western Ontario and University of Manchester. He was a Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution, a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Fellow at Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. He has taught at Peking University, Tsinghua University and the University of Western Ontario as an adjunct professor. He has published over 100 books in English and Chinese along with hundreds of journal articles and opinion pieces on international relations, global governance, global migration, China outbound and inbound investment and trade, Chinese Diasporas and Chinese think tanks etc.. He is the Chief Editor of 12 Springer Nature Series books China and Globalization and his other books, Global Development and Cooperation with China (Springer, 2025); Escape the Thucydides Trap in Dialogue with Graham Allison on US-China Relations (Palgrave 2023); The Ebb and Flow of Globalization(Springer, 2022);The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises: Trends and Characteristics (Springer, 2020); Handbook on China and Globalization (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019).
Dr. Wang is a frequent speaker at international events such as the World Economic Forum, Munich Security Conference, Paris Peace Forum, WTO Public Forum, Global Solutions Summit, Athens Democracy Forum, Munk Debate, Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, and Milken Global Forum.
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I am seeking urgent assistance from anyone willing and able to examine my case independently.
I am the victim of a state-financed entrapment programme orchestrated by the Norwegian security apparatus. The process began in early 2009 with a series of coordinated provocations and psychological torture intended to break me down psychologically. Over time, I came to understand that the purpose of these provocations was to produce manipulated recordings and fabricate security-related threat narratives that could later be used against me.
Since then, I have been subjected to prolonged containment through controlled environments designed to isolate me, systematically torture me, and ultimately gain psychological control over me. This campaign has been sustained over many years by the Norwegian security apparatus. Its objectives have been to engineer false narratives, systematically spread them through formal and informal networks, isolate me, continue systematic torture within controlled environments, and ultimately use me as a “Manchurian candidate” in a false-flag security operation.
Norwegian security agencies operate extrajudicial campaigns through networks presented publicly as anti-radicalisation cooperation. In reality, these networks function as de facto extrajudicial courts involving religious institutions, community leaders, and criminal elements. They are used to facilitate torture, entrapment, and smear campaigns against victims while concealing the role of those directing the operations.
Norwegian security agencies operate with the acquiescence of higher authorities, enabling them to use state institutions to fabricate evidence and narratives, manipulate official and medical records, conceal torture, silence victims, and obstruct independent legal remedies. Political figures, public officials, professional associations, healthcare providers, NGOs, private individuals, and members of the general public are influenced through false narratives, incentives, coercion, or other means to participate in social and political engineering while maintaining the appearance that their actions are independent and spontaneous.
Norway now functions as an authoritarian system operating behind the façade of democratic institutions. Security cooperation between Western states, together with their influence over international human rights organisations, has created an environment in which meaningful scrutiny is prevented. Rather than conducting independent investigations, many organisations knowingly or unknowingly reproduce the same fabricated narratives generated by the security apparatus.
Throughout this process, I have been systematically prevented from learning the allegations being constructed against me and prevented from responding to them through torture and containment. Every attempt to report torture, challenge fabricated narratives, or obtain an independent investigation has resulted in further retaliation, additional fabrication of evidence, and deeper containment.
Today, I remain unable to break free from this system. The containment extends far beyond state institutions and incorporates individuals within my wider social environment. My communications have been continuously monitored, making it extremely difficult to communicate safely or obtain genuinely independent assistance.
I am not asking anyone to accept my account without scrutiny. I am asking for an independent examination of the evidence, conducted from first principles and free from reliance on institutional narratives that form part of the system I am asking to have investigated.
If you are able to assist, or know an individual or organisation with the independence, integrity, and expertise necessary to examine this case objectively, I would be deeply grateful for your help.
Independent scrutiny is the only path towards establishing the truth and restoring accountability.
Request for Help
I am seeking urgent assistance from anyone willing and able to examine my case independently.
I am the victim of a state-financed entrapment programme orchestrated by the Norwegian security apparatus. The process began in early 2009 with a series of coordinated provocations and psychological torture intended to break me down psychologically. Over time, I came to understand that the purpose of these provocations was to produce manipulated recordings and fabricate security-related threat narratives that could later be used against me.
Since then, I have been subjected to prolonged containment through controlled environments designed to isolate me, systematically torture me, and ultimately gain psychological control over me. This campaign has been sustained over many years by the Norwegian security apparatus. Its objectives have been to engineer false narratives, systematically spread them through formal and informal networks, isolate me, continue systematic torture within controlled environments, and ultimately use me as a “Manchurian candidate” in a false-flag security operation.
Norwegian security agencies operate extrajudicial campaigns through networks presented publicly as anti-radicalisation cooperation. In reality, these networks function as de facto extrajudicial courts involving religious institutions, community leaders, and criminal elements. They are used to facilitate torture, entrapment, and smear campaigns against victims while concealing the role of those directing the operations.
Norwegian security agencies operate with the acquiescence of higher authorities, enabling them to use state institutions to fabricate evidence and narratives, manipulate official and medical records, conceal torture, silence victims, and obstruct independent legal remedies. Political figures, public officials, professional associations, healthcare providers, NGOs, private individuals, and members of the general public are influenced through false narratives, incentives, coercion, or other means to participate in social and political engineering while maintaining the appearance that their actions are independent and spontaneous.
Norway now functions as an authoritarian system operating behind the façade of democratic institutions. Security cooperation between Western states, together with their influence over international human rights organisations, has created an environment in which meaningful scrutiny is prevented. Rather than conducting independent investigations, many organisations knowingly or unknowingly reproduce the same fabricated narratives generated by the security apparatus.
Throughout this process, I have been systematically prevented from learning the allegations being constructed against me and prevented from responding to them through torture and containment. Every attempt to report torture, challenge fabricated narratives, or obtain an independent investigation has resulted in further retaliation, additional fabrication of evidence, and deeper containment.
Today, I remain unable to break free from this system. The containment extends far beyond state institutions and incorporates individuals within my wider social environment. My communications have been continuously monitored, making it extremely difficult to communicate safely or obtain genuinely independent assistance.
I am not asking anyone to accept my account without scrutiny. I am asking for an independent examination of the evidence, conducted from first principles and free from reliance on institutional narratives that form part of the system I am asking to have investigated.
If you are able to assist, or know an individual or organisation with the independence, integrity, and expertise necessary to examine this case objectively, I would be deeply grateful for your help.
Independent scrutiny is the only path towards establishing the truth and restoring accountability.