— October 16-18, attended the 51st annual conference of the American Association of Chinese Studies at Rollins College, Orlando, FL, and presented a paper titled “The Executive Branch, Congress, and the Implementation of the Taiwan Relations Act;

— October 21-22, attended and presented a paper (“Sino-Indo Relations: Experience and Lessons from History”) an international conference, “China-India Relations: Between Cooperation and Competition,” hosted by the Institute of Internatioinal Studies, Fudan University.

— Was quoted in an Asia Times article, “Omaha greets an ‘unusual visitor’ from China“