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Advisor for Chinese Relations

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After leaving office in 1993, Franklin continued to travel to China, her meetings with high-ranking Chinese leaders during each of these visits enable her to maintain the valuable relationships she forged during her Presidential mission.

ECNY, NCUSCUR, and USCBC Event celebrating China Premier Li Keqiang, 2016
ECNY, NCUSCR, and USCBC Event celebrating China Premier Li Keqiang, 2016
In December 1992, Secretary Franklin led a Presidential mission to China to normalize commercial relations. She and her counterpart, Minister Li Lanqing, reconvened the Seventh Session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT). The JCCT had been moribund since the events at Tiananmen Square in June 1989 due to a sanction the U.S. placed on China which banned high-level government-to-government contact. Her mission lifted that sanction and brought back $1 billion in new contracts for American companies and it gave a “green light” to U.S. companies interested in pursuing business opportunities in China. Trade with China grew dramatically in the ensuing years as did U.S. investment in China.
Mission to China with Vice Premier Li Lanqing, 1992
Mission to China with Vice Premier Li Lanqing, 1992

After leaving office in 1993, Franklin continued to travel to China, both officially and unofficially. Her meetings with high-ranking Chinese leaders during each of these visits enable her to maintain the valuable relationships she forged during her Presidential mission. Through her company, Barbara Franklin Enterprises, she advises U.S. companies doing business in China and remains deeply engaged in working to build the economic and commercial relationship between the two countries.

With Chinese President Xi Jinping, 2010
With Chinese President Xi Jinping, 2010
Recognized for her leadership and her commitment to the continued growth of the U.S.-China relationship, Franklin serves on the boards of several important organizations that work toward enhancing this relationship through advocacy and education. Notably, she is a Director and past Vice-Chair and Secretary-Treasurer of the U.S.-China Business Council. She is a Director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and an Honorary Advisor of the U.S.-China Policy Foundation. In 2016, she was awarded a “Lifetime Achievement Award in US-China Relations” by the US-China Policy Foundation.

BOAO Forum with Premier Li Keqiang, 2014
BOAO Forum with Premier Li Keqiang, 2014
With Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi
With Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi
With Vice Premier Wang Yang, 2015 (photo: Kaveh Sardari, Sardari.com)
With Vice Premier Wang Yang, 2015
(photo: Kaveh Sardari, Sardari.com)

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In Print

A Matter Of Simple Justice tells the story about how Barbara Franklin was recruited by the Nixon Administration to hire an unprecedented number of women into the upper levels of the federal government.

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On Capitalism

I believe in the American system of entrepreneurial capitalism. It is this system, coupled with our democracy and rule of law, which has made the U.S. economy the largest and most dynamic in the world and brought our country unprecedented prosperity. It is this system which makes the American dream a reality.
- The Honorable Barbara Hackman Franklin

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