Dai Min
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Dai Min (born November 20, 1958) is President of Whyte DaiMin Investments Limited, the Center for America-China Partnership and the America China Partnership Foundation, co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement between President Hu
and President Obama
, and co-host of ChinaSmartMagazine.com.
in China’s Xinhai Revolution
, which overthrew the Qing Dynasty
in 1911. She grew up in China as a farm girl and “class enemy” during the Cultural Revolution
. As China began its reforms under Deng Xiaoping
, she won a national contest in the performing arts in 1978, which lead to her becoming a leading lyric soprano with China’s National Opera Company and a national celebrity. In 1988, she left China to study in Germany, England and America. John Milligan-Whyte
proposed to Dai Min the day after they met in 1997, and they were married in 2005.
She is an Honorary Research Professor at Beijing University, Honorary Advisor to the Beijing University Education Foundation, a Guest Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University
, and initiated the China Insurance Industry Executive Leadership Program.
, as an independent producer, as a currency trader on Wall Street, and she founded a consulting firm in New York advising BASF
, ABB, Obermeyer
and other companies doing business with China.
are the co-hosts of ChinaSmartMagazine.com, the first installment of which was footage of meetings negotiating the Proposed US China Grand Strategy Agreement. She is also the co-host of Collaboration of Civilizations, a television series currently in production based on their books. Milligan-Whyte
and Dai Min co-authored a column in People's Daily Online in English and in China Daily
Online in Manadrin. Her articles in English and Mandarin also appear in a diverse range of publications, such as the Study Times.
and Dai Min founded the Center for America China Partnership in 2005 and incorporated the America China Partnership Foundation in New York in 2007. They are the author and co-author of the America-China Partnership Book Series. In 2009 the official media of the Chinese government, China Daily
, named the Center “the first American think tank to combine and integrate American and Chinese perspectives providing a complete answer for America and China’s success in the 21st century.” The Chinese government’s National Development and Reform Commission
and the Beijing Foreign Studies University
, which has produced 90% of China’s diplomats, signed Memoranda of Cooperation with the Center and Foundation to implement the “New School of US-China Partnership” in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
At the request of the Director General of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Milligan-Whyte
and Dai Min wrote and delivered A White Paper for the Presidents of America and China summarizing their America-China Partnership Book Series and the “New School of US-China Relations”, which their books created. The White Paper was used in President Hu’s
preparations for negotiations with President Obama
in 2009. The text of A White Paper for the Presidents of America and China is available at the Center for America China Partnership’s website.
, Dai Min, and Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, respectively the Chairman, President, and Executive Vice President of the Center for America China Partnership, drafted a Proposed China US Grand Strategy Agreement between President Hu
and President Obama
with input and support from China’s: Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Former UN Ambassador, Former U.S. Ambassador, Former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the PLA
, Former Military Attaché to North Korea and Israel, Former Vice Minister of Commerce, China's Central Party School Institute of International Strategic Studies, Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, China Center for International Economic Exchanges, China Institute For International Strategic Studies, China Foundation for International & Strategic Studies, Boao Forum, and State Council’s China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, which prepares classified briefing documents for China's President, Premier and State Councilors. Footage of the meetings is available online.
The Proposed US China Grand Strategy Agreement's text was published in Foreign Affairs
and introduced in Dai Min and Milligan-Whyte’s columns in People’s Daily Online in English and in China Daily Online
in Mandarin and in Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett’s column in World Politics Review.
, China Daily
and People’s Daily as creating a “New School of US China Relations providing a complete answer for America and China's success in the 21st century”, which was announced at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
and the first Global Think Tank Summit and in Foreign Affairs
magazine in 2009.
China-US Relations in the Obama Administration: Facing Shared Challenges was translated into Mandarin and published in China by the Central Party School. The book's original English title, "China and America's Leadership in Peaceful Coexistence", was changed to match the Chinese title, 《致奥巴马总统和胡锦涛主席的外交关系白皮书》, given in Mandarin by the Central Party School. In this book, Milligan-Whyte
and Dai Min explain the convergence of US and China's security needs, the "New School of US-China Relations" perspectives and the advantages for both the US and China in aligning their national security if the US reciprocates China's peaceful coexistence policies.
and Dai Min also present grand strategies for preventing human extinction. In China & America’s Responsibilities in Mankind’s Future, published in English in 2010, which the Central Party School has also translated into Mandarin for publication in China, they pioneered two other new research areas which they term the “New School of the Human Extinction Challenge” and the “New School of the Philosophy, Genetics and Physics of Moral Authority.” They assert that mankind’s fundamental 21st century foreign policy, defense strategy and scientific research issue is discovering how to prevent human extinction in what they term "The Age of Species Lethal Weapons and Science". They reject Samuel Huntington’s contention in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order that the clash of civilizations is inevitable. They assert that mankind has no future in clash of civilization because of the power of 21st century weapons, technology and science and that collaboration of civilizations is essential if mankind is to prevent its extinction.
and Dai Min call for the study of human beings as phenomenon of physics because the laws of physics are the only laws that all human beings involuntarily obey. They assert that human conflict and collaboration can be better managed when understood as phenomena of physics. They assert that to discover defense systems able to prevent human extinction and solutions to the inconsistencies in what is currently believed about the laws of physics it is necessary to study both together as interrelated subjects and to understand persons exhibiting “moral authority” as phenomena of physics.
In China & America's Responsibilities in Mankind's Future they assert that the thought and behavior processes of human beings which evolved over billions of years prior to the Age of Species Lethal Weapons and Science is in the process of leading to the human gene pool's extinction. They view genetic engineering of the human gene pool as urgent, essential and justified in order to prevent its extinction. They also assert that medicine is fundamentally a phenomenon of physics and that few medical doctors also have doctorates in physics. In a People's Daily Online article, "How to reduce America's budget by 45%", they called for the creation of research, teaching and treatment hospitals that combine expertise in genetic engineering, theoretic and experimental physics, American, Chinese and stem cell medicine and the comparative analysis of the cost, effectiveness and painfulness of each of those treatment modalities alone or in combination to make 21st century health care globally more effective and less costly and painful. They have proposed that the prototype of such research, educational and clinical hospitals be created in Jilin Province, China.
Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao is the current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China. He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang...
and President Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
, and co-host of ChinaSmartMagazine.com.
Personal History
Dai Min is the granddaughter of General Dai Feng Xiang who supported Dr. Sun Yat-SenSun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese doctor, revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Nationalist China, Sun is frequently referred to as the "Father of the Nation" , a view agreed upon by both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China...
in China’s Xinhai Revolution
Xinhai Revolution
The Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, also known as Revolution of 1911 or the Chinese Revolution, was a revolution that overthrew China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing , and established the Republic of China...
, which overthrew the Qing Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....
in 1911. She grew up in China as a farm girl and “class enemy” during the Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution , was a socio-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976...
. As China began its reforms under Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese politician, statesman, and diplomat. As leader of the Communist Party of China, Deng was a reformer who led China towards a market economy...
, she won a national contest in the performing arts in 1978, which lead to her becoming a leading lyric soprano with China’s National Opera Company and a national celebrity. In 1988, she left China to study in Germany, England and America. John Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China’s official media refer to as the “new Edgar Snow” and the “twenty-first century Kissinger.” He is the co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement Between President Hu and President Obama and...
proposed to Dai Min the day after they met in 1997, and they were married in 2005.
She is an Honorary Research Professor at Beijing University, Honorary Advisor to the Beijing University Education Foundation, a Guest Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Beijing Foreign Studies University is the best foreign language and international studies university in China, often named "the cradle of diplomats" in the country.It is located in Weigongcun, Beijing, People's Republic of China...
, and initiated the China Insurance Industry Executive Leadership Program.
Business career
She is President of Whyte-DaiMin Investments Limited and related companies which joint venture with Chinese and non-Chinese companies in toxic waste cleanup and water treatment technology and aircraft industries. She is also President of AmeriChina Finance and represents developers of advanced technologies. She has worked at the United NationsUnited Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
, as an independent producer, as a currency trader on Wall Street, and she founded a consulting firm in New York advising BASF
BASF
BASF SE is the largest chemical company in the world and is headquartered in Germany. BASF originally stood for Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik . Today, the four letters are a registered trademark and the company is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, and Zurich Stock...
, ABB, Obermeyer
Obermeyer
Obermeyer is an American manufacturer of ski wear and outdoor clothing....
and other companies doing business with China.
Journalism career
Dai Min and Milligan-WhyteJohn Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China’s official media refer to as the “new Edgar Snow” and the “twenty-first century Kissinger.” He is the co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement Between President Hu and President Obama and...
are the co-hosts of ChinaSmartMagazine.com, the first installment of which was footage of meetings negotiating the Proposed US China Grand Strategy Agreement. She is also the co-host of Collaboration of Civilizations, a television series currently in production based on their books. Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China’s official media refer to as the “new Edgar Snow” and the “twenty-first century Kissinger.” He is the co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement Between President Hu and President Obama and...
and Dai Min co-authored a column in People's Daily Online in English and in China Daily
China Daily
The China Daily is an English language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.- Overview :China Daily was established in June 1981 and has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in the country...
Online in Manadrin. Her articles in English and Mandarin also appear in a diverse range of publications, such as the Study Times.
Center for America China Partnership
John Milligan-WhyteJohn Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China’s official media refer to as the “new Edgar Snow” and the “twenty-first century Kissinger.” He is the co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement Between President Hu and President Obama and...
and Dai Min founded the Center for America China Partnership in 2005 and incorporated the America China Partnership Foundation in New York in 2007. They are the author and co-author of the America-China Partnership Book Series. In 2009 the official media of the Chinese government, China Daily
China Daily
The China Daily is an English language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.- Overview :China Daily was established in June 1981 and has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in the country...
, named the Center “the first American think tank to combine and integrate American and Chinese perspectives providing a complete answer for America and China’s success in the 21st century.” The Chinese government’s National Development and Reform Commission
National Development and Reform Commission
The National Development and Reform Commission , formerly State Planning Commission and State Development Planning Commission, is a macroeconomic management agency under the Chinese State Council, which has broad administrative and planning control over the Chinese economy...
and the Beijing Foreign Studies University
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Beijing Foreign Studies University is the best foreign language and international studies university in China, often named "the cradle of diplomats" in the country.It is located in Weigongcun, Beijing, People's Republic of China...
, which has produced 90% of China’s diplomats, signed Memoranda of Cooperation with the Center and Foundation to implement the “New School of US-China Partnership” in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
At the request of the Director General of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , established in 1977, is the premier and highest academic research organization in the fields of philosophy and social sciences as well as a national center for comprehensive studies in the People's Republic of China. It was described by Foreign Policy...
Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China’s official media refer to as the “new Edgar Snow” and the “twenty-first century Kissinger.” He is the co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement Between President Hu and President Obama and...
and Dai Min wrote and delivered A White Paper for the Presidents of America and China summarizing their America-China Partnership Book Series and the “New School of US-China Relations”, which their books created. The White Paper was used in President Hu’s
Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao is the current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China. He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang...
preparations for negotiations with President Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
in 2009. The text of A White Paper for the Presidents of America and China is available at the Center for America China Partnership’s website.
Proposed US China Grand Strategy Agreement
In 2010 Milligan-WhyteJohn Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China’s official media refer to as the “new Edgar Snow” and the “twenty-first century Kissinger.” He is the co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement Between President Hu and President Obama and...
, Dai Min, and Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, respectively the Chairman, President, and Executive Vice President of the Center for America China Partnership, drafted a Proposed China US Grand Strategy Agreement between President Hu
Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao is the current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China. He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang...
and President Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
with input and support from China’s: Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Former UN Ambassador, Former U.S. Ambassador, Former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the PLA
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of all land, sea, strategic missile and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 — celebrated annually as "PLA Day" — as the military arm of the Communist Party of China...
, Former Military Attaché to North Korea and Israel, Former Vice Minister of Commerce, China's Central Party School Institute of International Strategic Studies, Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, China Center for International Economic Exchanges, China Institute For International Strategic Studies, China Foundation for International & Strategic Studies, Boao Forum, and State Council’s China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, which prepares classified briefing documents for China's President, Premier and State Councilors. Footage of the meetings is available online.
The Proposed US China Grand Strategy Agreement's text was published in Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine and website on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published since 1922 by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...
and introduced in Dai Min and Milligan-Whyte’s columns in People’s Daily Online in English and in China Daily Online
China Daily
The China Daily is an English language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.- Overview :China Daily was established in June 1981 and has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in the country...
in Mandarin and in Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett’s column in World Politics Review.
America-China Partnership Book Series
To date five books in English and four books in Mandarin have been published in the America-China Partnership Book Series.| English Title (Publication Date) | Mandarin Title (Publication Date) | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| China & America’s Emerging Partnership: A New Realistic Perspective (2008) | 《美中关系新战略》（2008年） | John Milligan-Whyte, Dai Min |
| New China Business Strategies: Chinese and American Companies as Global Partners (2008) | 《中美商业新战略：开创中美商务双赢的未来》（2008年） | John Milligan-Whyte, Dai Min, Mannie Manhong Liu, Howard Jiang |
| A White Paper for the Presidents of America and China (2009) | 《致奥巴马总统和胡锦涛主席的外交关系白皮书》（2009年） | John Milligan-Whyte, Dai Min |
| US-China Relations in the Obama Administration: Facing Shared Challenges (2010) | 《奥巴马执政后的中美关系：应对共同挑战》（2009年） | John Milligan-Whyte, Dai Min |
| China & America’s Responsibilities in Mankind’s Future (2010) | John Milligan-Whyte, Dai Min | |
The New School of US China Relations
The first two books in the America China Partnership Series, China & America’s Emerging Partnership: A New Realistic Perspective and New China Business Strategies: Chinese & American Companies as Global Partners, were recognized by the Chinese Academy of Social SciencesChinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , established in 1977, is the premier and highest academic research organization in the fields of philosophy and social sciences as well as a national center for comprehensive studies in the People's Republic of China. It was described by Foreign Policy...
, China Daily
China Daily
The China Daily is an English language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.- Overview :China Daily was established in June 1981 and has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in the country...
and People’s Daily as creating a “New School of US China Relations providing a complete answer for America and China's success in the 21st century”, which was announced at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , established in 1977, is the premier and highest academic research organization in the fields of philosophy and social sciences as well as a national center for comprehensive studies in the People's Republic of China. It was described by Foreign Policy...
and the first Global Think Tank Summit and in Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine and website on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published since 1922 by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...
magazine in 2009.
China-US Relations in the Obama Administration: Facing Shared Challenges was translated into Mandarin and published in China by the Central Party School. The book's original English title, "China and America's Leadership in Peaceful Coexistence", was changed to match the Chinese title, 《致奥巴马总统和胡锦涛主席的外交关系白皮书》, given in Mandarin by the Central Party School. In this book, Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China’s official media refer to as the “new Edgar Snow” and the “twenty-first century Kissinger.” He is the co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement Between President Hu and President Obama and...
and Dai Min explain the convergence of US and China's security needs, the "New School of US-China Relations" perspectives and the advantages for both the US and China in aligning their national security if the US reciprocates China's peaceful coexistence policies.
The New School of the Human Extinction Challenge
In the America-China Partnership Book Series[11], Milligan-WhyteJohn Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China’s official media refer to as the “new Edgar Snow” and the “twenty-first century Kissinger.” He is the co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement Between President Hu and President Obama and...
and Dai Min also present grand strategies for preventing human extinction. In China & America’s Responsibilities in Mankind’s Future, published in English in 2010, which the Central Party School has also translated into Mandarin for publication in China, they pioneered two other new research areas which they term the “New School of the Human Extinction Challenge” and the “New School of the Philosophy, Genetics and Physics of Moral Authority.” They assert that mankind’s fundamental 21st century foreign policy, defense strategy and scientific research issue is discovering how to prevent human extinction in what they term "The Age of Species Lethal Weapons and Science". They reject Samuel Huntington’s contention in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order that the clash of civilizations is inevitable. They assert that mankind has no future in clash of civilization because of the power of 21st century weapons, technology and science and that collaboration of civilizations is essential if mankind is to prevent its extinction.
The New School of the Philosophy, Genetics and Physics of Moral Authority
Milligan-WhyteJohn Milligan-Whyte
John Milligan-Whyte is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China’s official media refer to as the “new Edgar Snow” and the “twenty-first century Kissinger.” He is the co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement Between President Hu and President Obama and...
and Dai Min call for the study of human beings as phenomenon of physics because the laws of physics are the only laws that all human beings involuntarily obey. They assert that human conflict and collaboration can be better managed when understood as phenomena of physics. They assert that to discover defense systems able to prevent human extinction and solutions to the inconsistencies in what is currently believed about the laws of physics it is necessary to study both together as interrelated subjects and to understand persons exhibiting “moral authority” as phenomena of physics.
In China & America's Responsibilities in Mankind's Future they assert that the thought and behavior processes of human beings which evolved over billions of years prior to the Age of Species Lethal Weapons and Science is in the process of leading to the human gene pool's extinction. They view genetic engineering of the human gene pool as urgent, essential and justified in order to prevent its extinction. They also assert that medicine is fundamentally a phenomenon of physics and that few medical doctors also have doctorates in physics. In a People's Daily Online article, "How to reduce America's budget by 45%", they called for the creation of research, teaching and treatment hospitals that combine expertise in genetic engineering, theoretic and experimental physics, American, Chinese and stem cell medicine and the comparative analysis of the cost, effectiveness and painfulness of each of those treatment modalities alone or in combination to make 21st century health care globally more effective and less costly and painful. They have proposed that the prototype of such research, educational and clinical hospitals be created in Jilin Province, China.