U.S. Consulate General Press Releases (1998)

Representatives of U.S. National Security Council to Discuss President Clinton's Trip to China

News Release
May 29, 1998
Friday

On Friday, June 5, at 9:00 a.m., the U.S. Information Service will host a Worldnet satellite program featuring a discussion of President Clinton's upcoming visit to China. Sandra Kristoff and Jeffrey Bader of the U.S. National Security Council will talk about the trip with interlocutors in Beijing, Bangkok and Tokyo. Audiences in Hong Kong and other East Asian cities will be able to see the U.S. participants, who will be in Washington, D.C., and listen to the dialogue.

The program will take place at the U.S. Consulate General, 26 Garden Road, Central. Media representatives wishing to attend are required to pre-register with the U.S. Information Service by phoning 2841-2265 or sending a fax to 2845-0735. Seating for this program is limited, and registration will be taken on a first come, first served basis. The Worldnet starts promptly at 9:00 a.m. and will last for exactly one hour. The usual security check will be made.

Biographical Information: Sandra Kristoff

Sandra J. Kristoff, a career Senior Executive Service officer with twenty years of government service, is the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. She was appointed to this position in January 1996. She also served at the NSC in 1993 as Director for Asian Affairs responsible for overseeing U.S. foreign policy with Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia, and in 1994 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia Pacific Economic Affairs with a joint appointment to the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. Ms. Kristoff was Ambassador for APEC (the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum) during 1995 and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs in 1992. As a senior advisor on economic issues, Ms. Kristoff was instrumental in advancing U.S. support for the APEC organization and defining the character of APEC as a vehicle for regional economic cooperation.

From 1985 to 1992, Ms. Kristoff was Deputy and then Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Asia and the Pacific. Ms. Kristoff negotiated a number of precedent-setting agreements in the region, including agreements of intellectual property, financial services, insurance, motion pictures and other services industries, customs valuation and access for U.S. industrial and agricultural exports to Taiwan, Korea, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Prior to assuming her Asian portfolio, Ms. Kristoff was involved in multilateral trade negotiations under the GATT through the Tokyo and Uruguay Rounds. Her responsibilities included U.S. import and tariff policies, notably the negotiation of the U.S. adoption of the harmonized system of tariff nomenclature.

Ms. Kristoff holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from American University and a Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University Law School.

Biographical Information: Jeffrey A. Bader

Jeffrey A. Bader was born in New York in 1945 and graduated from Yale College in 1967, then earned his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in European history from Columbia University in 1968 and 1975 respectively. He joined the State Department in 1975. His assignments as a Foreign Service Officer have included Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, Zaire (Congo); Taipei, where he studied Chinese language; Beijing; the U.S. Mission to the United Nations; Deputy Chief of Mission in Lusaka, Zambia; Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong; and several tours in Washington in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He served as Deputy Director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs from 1987 to 1990, and as Director of the same office in 1995-1996.

In 1996 Mr. Bader was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, and Laos. In August 1997 he was appointed to his current position as Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council, with responsibility for U.S. relations with China and Taiwan.

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