2:30–4:30 p.m.

Chinese Historians in the United States Session 2
From Confrontation to Negotiation: The United States and China in the Cold War
Marriott, Lobby Level, Room 8217

Chair:	Qiang Zhai, Auburn University at Montgomery
Papers:	Misperception and China’s Strategy Qingmin Zhang, Foreign Affairs College, Beijing, China Exploring Washington-Beijing Back-Channel Communication and Kissinger-Zhou Enlai’s Secret Talks in Beijing, 1971 Yafeng Xia, Long Island University, Brooklyn Noise, Signals, and Intentions; the 1954–55 Taiwan Straits Crisis and 1955 Sino-U.S. Ambassadorial Talks Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma
Comment:	William Burr, National Security Archives