{"id":83800,"date":"2025-09-24T14:36:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/event\/webinar-u-s-china-trade-talks-exclusive-ccbc-member-briefing\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:01:15","slug":"webinar-u-s-china-trade-talks-exclusive-ccbc-member-briefing","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/event\/webinar-u-s-china-trade-talks-exclusive-ccbc-member-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: U.S.\u2013China Trade Talks \u2013 Exclusive CCBC Member Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This private briefing is offered exclusively to CCBC members.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the United States and China navigate one of the world\u2019s most complex economic relationships, trade talks between the two powers remain a focal point with wide-reaching implications for global business. For Canadian companies engaged in China, understanding the trajectory of U.S.\u2013China trade policy is critical to assessing risk and opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>Wednesday, October 8, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong> 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM EDT<\/p>\n<p><strong>This members-only webinar brings together three senior experts, each offering a distinct vantage point on U.S.\u2013China trade dynamics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Noah Fraser: Senior Vice President of China Operations, US-China Business Council<\/li>\n<li>Chucheng Feng: Founding partner, Hutong Research<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Wortley: Partner, DLA Piper (Canada) and DLA Piper (US), Board Director, Canada China Business Council<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Moderator:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bijan Ahmadi, Executive Director &amp; COO, Canada China Business Council<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Together, our panelists will examine the current state of U.S.\u2013China trade talks, points of friction and potential cooperation, and the implications for Canadian businesses active in China. The session will conclude with Q&amp;A, providing CCBC members with direct access to the speakers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_zIxenCkRTMy64QU58hRsgQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to register<\/strong><\/a> (CCBC members only)<\/p>\n<p>This event is exclusively open to CCBC members in good standing. The Zoom link will be shared after we complete the membership verification process. If you have any questions about membership or would like to apply, please feel free to contact us at <a href=\"mailto:events@ccbc.com\">events@ccbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-83914 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sponsors-Oct-8-Webinar-U.S.\u2013China-Trade-Talks-\u2013-Exclusive-CCBC-Member-Briefing-e1759161656230.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sponsors-Oct-8-Webinar-U.S.\u2013China-Trade-Talks-\u2013-Exclusive-CCBC-Member-Briefing-e1759161656230.png 1200w, https:\/\/ccbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sponsors-Oct-8-Webinar-U.S.\u2013China-Trade-Talks-\u2013-Exclusive-CCBC-Member-Briefing-e1759161656230-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/ccbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sponsors-Oct-8-Webinar-U.S.\u2013China-Trade-Talks-\u2013-Exclusive-CCBC-Member-Briefing-e1759161656230-1024x196.png 1024w, https:\/\/ccbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sponsors-Oct-8-Webinar-U.S.\u2013China-Trade-Talks-\u2013-Exclusive-CCBC-Member-Briefing-e1759161656230-768x147.png 768w, https:\/\/ccbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sponsors-Oct-8-Webinar-U.S.\u2013China-Trade-Talks-\u2013-Exclusive-CCBC-Member-Briefing-e1759161656230-1080x207.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-83790\" src=\"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chucheng-Feng-e1758739196688.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Chucheng FENG<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Founding Partner<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hutong Research<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chucheng Feng is the founding partner of Hutong Research, a boutique advisory firm focusing on deciphering China\u2019s policy trajectory, dynamics, and their market impact. Before Hutong Research, Chucheng co-founded Plenum China Research, where he was a partner 2019-2023, and Grisk Data, a Shanghai\/DC-based alternative data vendor on geopolitics in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to launching his own ventures, Chucheng helped build political risk practice at the Hong Kong-based risk firm Blackpeak in 2017. Beforehand, he was an Asia analyst at Eurasia Group and conducted research at Asia Society Policy Institute under former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd. In these capacities, Chucheng advised sovereign wealth funds, the world\u2019s most prestigious hedge funds and asset managers, as well as Fortune 500 companies on China-related topics.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Beijing, Chucheng had studied, worked, and lived in Minnesota, California, New York, Washington DC, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. He travels frequently across continents for speaking engagements and in-person briefings.<\/p>\n<p>Chucheng holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in political science and history from University of California, Berkeley, and a master\u2019s degree in political science from Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p>Chuchengis a Forbes U30 Asia 2022 listee and a young leader at the Council for the United States and Italy. Chucheng gets regularly quoted by Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Caixin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-83787 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Noah-Fraser-500x500-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Noah Fraser<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Senior Vice President of China Operations<\/em><br \/>\n<em>US-China Business Council<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Noah has over 15 years of progressive international career growth across multiple industries, including government &amp; corporate affairs, marketing &amp; communications, manufacturing, education, and life sciences. His depth of experience includes the public, private, and non-profit sectors, and he is professionally fluent in Mandarin Chinese and French. He has spent over 10 years working and studying in China and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently Senior Vice President of China Operations for the US-China Business Council, based in Beijing. Founded in 1973, the US-China Business Council (USCBC) is a private, nonpartisan, non-profit association of more than 270 American companies that do business with China. The membership includes some of the largest and most iconic American brands, in addition to professional services firms and small- and medium-sized enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>Noah previously served as the Managing Director &amp; Chief China Representative at the Canada China Business Council, the de-facto chamber of commerce between Canada and China, with over 40 years of history and 300 corporate members across both markets. In the private sector, he most recently acted as the Director of Marketing &amp; Business Development at Rapid Aid Corp., the world\u2019s leading designer and manufacturer of temperature-therapy medical devices. In close collaboration with the CEO, he oversaw all global marketing, sales &amp; communications activities, and drove international strategy, with a focus on Greater China, the EU, and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Noah holds an Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences in International Development &amp; Globalization and a minor in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa, partially completed at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a certificate in Mandarin Chinese from Nanjing Normal University. He is currently completing a Masters of Laws (LLM) in International Commercial Law and Practice at the University of Edinburgh. Noah is also an active volunteer, serving on the Advisory Board of the Canada China Forum and as a mentor with the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-83793 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/stephen_wortley_personality_web_large-e1758739341303.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Stephen Wortley<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Partner<\/em><br \/>\n<em>DLA Piper (Canada) and DLA Piper (US)<br \/>\nBoard Director<br \/>\nCanada China Business Council<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Wortley is a leading capital markets and mergers and acquisitions lawyer. He is highly regarded for his deep knowledge of the Chinese, Hong Kong and East Asian markets. With extensive expertise in domestic and international securities and corporate matters, Mr. Wortley advises state-owned enterprises and a variety of small and medium-sized businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Assisting startups and established companies in the technology, financial services, advanced materials, manufacturing and energy and mining industries, Mr. Wortley provides counsel on local, national and international prospectus offerings, as well as numerous listings on the TSX, TSX Venture Exchange and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. He also advises on Chinese outbound M&amp;A transactions into the Americas, ASEAN and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wortley has been recognized for his work in M&amp;A by Chambers Global and The Legal Media Group \u2013 Guide to Leading Practitioners: China. He speaks frequently on the topic of Hong Kong Stock Exchange listings by Canadian companies, and on alternative investment structures.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wortley clerked for The Honourable Mr. Justice Lambert of the British Columbia Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-78150\" src=\"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bijan-Ahmadi-1000x750-1-e1748960756471.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Bijan Ahmadi<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Executive Director &amp; COO<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Canada China Business Council<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bijan Ahmadi serves as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Canada China Business Council (CCBC), overseeing the operations and activities of the Council across its seven chapters in Canada and China.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining CCBC, he co-founded and served as the Executive Director of the Institute for Peace &amp; Diplomacy (IPD) from 2018 to 2024. IPD is a non-partisan think tank operating in Canada and the United States, dedicated to fostering constructive engagement and interest-based thinking in international affairs.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure at IPD, Mr. Ahmadi launched the organization\u2019s Asia research program in 2020 and its flagship annual conference, the Indo-Pacific Strategy Forum (IPSF), in Ottawa in 2021. Today, IPSF is recognized as Canada\u2019s premier conference on the country\u2019s engagement in the Indo-Pacific region. He was also the co-editor of Canada-China Brief, a biweekly policy newsletter providing the latest developments and expert insights on political and economic relations between Ottawa and Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>In his work on China, Mr. Ahmadi has advised large corporations and SMEs on navigating Canada-China trade, policy, and regulatory developments. He has also spearheaded the publication of numerous research reports on China and Canada-China relations and led Track 2 diplomacy initiatives in collaboration with Chinese and American research institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ahmadi holds a Master\u2019s degree in Global Diplomacy from SOAS University of London and a Master of Applied Science from the University of Toronto. Before founding IPD, Mr. Ahmadi worked in strategy and management roles in the financial services and real estate sectors, where he honed his skills in organizational leadership and operational planning. He also served on the executive boards of several Canadian non-profits and NGOs, including the Toronto branch of the Canadian International Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This private briefing is offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1687,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[286,289],"class_list":["post-83800","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-ccbc-event-zh-hans","tribe_events_cat-english-zh-hans","cat_ccbc-event-zh-hans","cat_english-zh-hans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/83800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/83800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83917,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/83800\/revisions\/83917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83800"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccbc.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=83800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}