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(From left to right) Amb. Ding Yuanhong, Prof. Allen Weinstein, Amb. Mei Zhaorong, and Center Director, Rep. Roy Blunt, following a meeting at the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia
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The Center for Democracy has organized programs designed to facilitate the development of law-based democratic institutions and the transition to modern market-based economies in the Asia-Pacific region. Center programs have included seminars on economic reform held both in Beijing and in Washington. Official Chinese delegations have visited U.S. political party conventions in 1988, 1996 and 2000 under the auspices of the Center.
In 1985-86, the Center prepared the report on conditions for a free and fair election in the Philippines at the request of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and then helped monitor the February 1986 elections, accompanying the official U.S. observer delegation and writing the delegation's subsequent report on that landmark election for the President of the United States. Current projects continue to address transnational policy issues by promoting dialogue between business and political leaders in the United States and Asia.
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