John Milligan-Whyte
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John Milligan-Whyte is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China’s official media refer to as the “new Edgar Snow
Edgar Snow
Edgar P. Snow was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist revolution...

” 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 of books that present grand strategies required for the collaboration of civilizations and the prevention of human extinction.

Business Career

Milligan-Whyte is Chairman of Whyte DaiMin Investments Limited and affiliated companies which invest and joint venture globally with Chinese and non-Chinese companies in the toxic waste clean up, water purification, electricity, cement, aviation, reinsurance, biomedical technology, stem cell treatment and genetic engineering industries. He advises the Provincial Government of Jilin
Jilin
Jilin , is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. Jilin borders North Korea and Russia to the east, Heilongjiang to the north, Liaoning to the south, and Inner Mongolia to the west...

 and the cities of Tianjin
Tianjin
' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...

 and Chongqing
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...

, two of the five leading Chinese municipal governments with key roles and special economic zones directly administered by the State Council
State Council of the People's Republic of China
The State Council of the People's Republic of China , which is largely synonymous with the Central People's Government after 1954, is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China. It is chaired by the Premier and includes the heads of each governmental department and agency...

. He was named as one of China’s Top Fifty Business Leaders, and received 12,534 votes and was elected the winner of the Outstanding China Business Leaders Social Responsibility Award from the China Business Leaders’ 2010 Summit sponsored by China’s governing party’s Central Committee
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is the highest authority within the Communist Party of China. Its approximately 350 members and alternates are selected once every five years by the National Party Congress....

, the Chinese Government’s State Council Information Office, China News and Red Flag Magazine, making him the only non-Chinese recipient in the award's history. In 2007 the Chairman of the World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
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 and Managing Editor of the Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives,...

selected him as a participant in the World Economic Forum’s Inaugural Meeting of New Champions. From 1992 to 2008 he was Chairman of CORE Capital Ltd and an early stage investor in a securities firm, a telecommunications company and an e-commerce start up company, and was a director of currency trading software, broadcasting, WiFi, e-Smart technology, Internet, insurance, reinsurance, shipping, aircraft leasing, and hedge fund companies.

Reinsurance Career

Milligan-Whyte is the Chairman of the Reinsurance and Finance Center, a think tank founded by Whyte DaiMin Investments Limited, that works with government entities and indigenous and international underwriting and broking companies in China's insurance and reinsurance markets. He advised and was a director of various reinsurance companies from 1984 to 2008. He was appointed Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee Advising Bermuda’s Minister of Finance on Reinsurance and Insolvency Law and a member of the Bermuda Law Reform Commission and of the United States’ National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Advisory Council Revising the United States’ Model Insurance Act. He was elected Vice Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Tort and Insurance Section, co-edited and co-authored The Law & Practice Of International Reinsurance Collections and Insolvency, and published influential reinsurance articles.

Legal Career

From 1984 to 2008 Milligan-Whyte was a founding partner in Milligan-Whyte & Smith in Bermuda, which became a World Economic Forum member in 1992 and co-recipient of the International Financial Law Review’s Asian M&A Deal of the Year Award in 2002 for its advisory role in China Netcom’s
China Netcom
China Netcom, full name China Netcom Group Corporation Limited , abbreviated CNC, was a former telecommunication service provider in People's Republic of China...

 acquisition of assets of Asia Global Crossing, the first foreign acquisition by a Chinese state owned company. He created the firm's reinsurance, insolvency, venture capital, litigation, arbitration and China practices and advised governments, publicly traded and privately owned multinational companies, hedge funds, trusts, high net worth individuals and entrepreneurs from around the world.

Journalism Career

Milligan-Whyte is a co-host of ChinaSmartMagazine.com, the first production of which was its world-wide exclusive in filming and reporting the meetings in China negotiating the Proposed US China Grand Strategy Agreement. He is also the co-host of Collaboration of Civilizations, a television series currently in production based on his books. He explained the proposed US China Grand Strategy in his columns in People's Daily Online
People's Daily
The People's Daily is a daily newspaper in the People's Republic of China. The paper is an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China , published worldwide with a circulation of 3 to 4 million. In addition to its main Chinese-language edition, it has editions in English,...

 in English and 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 Manadrin and his articles in English and Mandarin also appear in publications as diverse as the Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....

and Study Times.

Center for America China Partnership

Milligan-Whyte proposed to Dai Min
Dai Min
Dai Min 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.- Personal...

 the day after they met in 1997. Seven years later, she accepted. They were married and 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
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 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 John Milligan-Whyte, Dai Min
Dai Min
Dai Min 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.- Personal...

 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
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 and introduced in John Milligan-Whyte and Dai Min’s
Dai Min
Dai Min 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.- Personal...

 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.

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.
List of Publications 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 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...

, 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 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, which they published in 2010 in English, is the only book authored by an American to be translated into Mandarin and published in China by the Central Party School since Paul Kennedy’s
Paul Kennedy
Paul Michael Kennedy CBE, FBA , is a British historian at Yale University specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles...

 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy, first published in 1987, explores the politics and economics of the Great Powers from 1500 to 1980 and the reason for their decline...

in 1989. 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 explains 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, Milligan-Whyte also presents 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, he pioneered two other new research areas which he terms the “New School of the Human Extinction Challenge” and the “New School of the Philosophy, Genetics and Physics of Moral Authority.” Milligan-Whyte asserts that mankind’s fundamental 21st century foreign policy, defense strategy and scientific research issue is discovering how to prevent human extinction in what he terms "The Age of Species Lethal Weapons and Science". He rejects Samuel Huntington’s contention in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order that the clash of civilizations is inevitable. Milligan-Whyte asserts 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-Whyte argues for the study of human beings as phenomena of physics because the laws of physics are the only laws that all human beings involuntarily obey. He asserts that the way to discover defense systems able to prevent human extinction and also to discover 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.

Human Extinction Challenge Solution Trust

Milligan-Whyte and Dai Min
Dai Min
Dai Min 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.- Personal...

 are the founders of the Human Extinction Challenge Solution Trust called for in their books to fund and guide a global team of the species’ most advanced experts in the many areas of research needed to successfully understand human beings and "moral authority" as phenomena of physics and thus learn how to control human behavior so human extinction can be prevented.

In China & America's Responsibilities in Mankind's Future he asserts 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. He views genetic engineering of the human gene pool as urgent, essential and justified in order to prevent its extinction. He also asserts that medicine is fundamentally a phenomena 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%", he 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. He has proposed that the prototype of such research, educational and clinical hospitals be created in Jilin Province, China.

Fineman Novel Series

Milligan-Whyte is the author of a series of philosophical novels about a fictional designer of mankind’s future: The Odyssey of Why and How, Fineman’s Answer, Substance, Fineman's Dilemma, The Courtship of An Irresistible Woman and The Courtship of Dried Flowers.

Paintings of Philosophy

In order to persuade Dai Min to marry him and to communicate ideas across civilizations, cultures and language barriers, Milligan-Whyte developed a new genre of cartoons. Twenty of his "Paintings of Philosophy", which summarize an American executive’s mindset change regarding China, appear in his business strategy book: New China Business Strategies: Chinese and American Companies as Global Partners. They also appear in his children’s books, such as The Ice Cream of Love.

Education

Milligan-Whyte is an Honorary Research Professor at Beijing University, Senior Advisor to the Venture Capital Research Center at Renmin University, a Guest Professor at China’s University of International Business & Economy and Beijing Foreign Studies University and a Fellow of the Center for International Legal Studies
Center for International Legal Studies
The Center for International Legal Studies is a non-profit research, training, and law publications institute, established and operating under Austrian law. Its international headquarters are in Salzburg, Austria. The Center has operated from there since 1976...

 in Strasburg, Austria. He was called to the Ontario and Canadian Bars in 1984 and the Bermuda Bar in 1985 and received a B.A (Honors), LL.B and LL.M degrees from the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

, Queen’s Law School
Queen's University
Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...

 and Osgoode Hall Law School
Osgoode Hall Law School
Osgoode Hall Law School is a Canadian law school, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and affiliated with York University. Named after the first Chief Justice of Ontario, William Osgoode, the law school was established by The Law Society of Upper Canada in 1889 and was the only accredited law...

 in Canada, continuing legal education at Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...

, and executive education at Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
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.

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