Admiral Carey Foundation USA-China Partnership Press Conference in China

REAR ADMIRAL [RET.] JAMES J. CAREY

On March 19, 2011 in Beijing, China, the Admiral Carey Foundation held a "Joint Press Conference" with our Youth Training Partners in China, the United Nations UNESCO World Heritage Youth Training Center and the Chinese Society of Education Training Center. We're forwarding a short recap of this event below our signature line so you can see the high level of Chinese Officials in attendance and speaking. We were also pleased to arrange for the Mothers of our two Distinguished Scholars of China Fellows in this summer's Washington Scholars Class to attend and be recognized for the selection of their son/daughter in the highly competitive selection process that took place during the United Nations Youth Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City this past January.

Several of these Senior Chinese Officials spoke at this gathering, announcing the implementation of this new USA-China Youth Leadership Training Partnership that is involving the best and brightest students in America and China, wherein the Chinese students will be coming to Washington, DC to be a part of the Washington Scholars, and the USA Admiral Carey Foundation "Distinguished Scholars of America" will be going to Beijing, China for their fellowships. While I could not personally travel to Beijing for this event, given the expense and time involved, my photograph was in their official program for the event and they read a prepared statement from me outlining my vision for this new program and my great hopes for the friendships and networks that I expect to result among the future leaders of China and the future leaders of the USA. 

Speaking of my vision for this program, and less some of my military and veterans colleagues think I've finally slipped over the edge and Obama has pushed me into Socialism and Communism---- that is NOT the case. During my tenure at the Federal Maritime Commission, I DID have occasion over the years to deal with almost every other nation in the world, particularly when I was Chairman, and that included China, and I found them to be very deliberate and focused in their national goals and their own vision for the future of their nation. I also read the newspapers along with the rest of you, and it's easy to see that China is aggressively on the move to world success and world leadership, they've very smartly bought up over a trillion dollars of our nation's stupid deficit spending debts, their economy is growing at twice the rate of our own, they represent the largest number of foreign students in American Universities, they are now the 2nd largest economy in the world and racing to outpace the USA as #1, and they ARE going to cut a wide swath in the world we both occupy in this, the 21st Century. 

So my Wisconsin Farm Boy common sense clicks in and says "these are people I want to know and I want them to know me", or more importantly, "THESE are people whose future national leaders I want my country's future national leaders to know", and not just know, but KNOW firsthand, have formed friendships with, had a beer with, socialized with, attended events together, formed networks together, etc., etc., so that at some distant time when I'm long gone from Planet Earth, these future leaders in China can pick up the phone [cell phone, that is] and call or e-mail or Twitter or "whatever's next" and talk to each other as friends and fellow former scholars and say "Hey, what's going on over there--- should we talk" rather than China misunderstanding what the USA is doing or the USA misunderstanding what China is doing, and wrong decisions or worse, wrong actions cause harm to both our nations. 

That's what this new Admiral Carey Foundation partnership is all about between the USA and China---- to make sure the future national leaders of both our countries have met each other and become friends and like and know each other and trust each other and can go to each other in the future and say "lets work together on this?". So I've not gone Socialist or Communist or radical and remain as much free market and entrepreneurial and free trade as I've always been, and I AM going to make this work. I'll let you know in 10 years how it all turned out, but for those of you who know me, you know that I do NOT take on projects that I don't expect to win! So for now, just watch from afar because I expect to "blow your socks off" with this program. And if this is something you'd like to work on with me, send me an email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .