Delegates John Grobowski, Tom McCawley, and Steven Tseng met with Congress’ only Chinese-American legislator, Representative David Wu.   Rep. Wu represents Oregon’s 1st District, which includes the City of Portland. Rep. Wu was born in Taiwan and offers a unique perspective on U.S.-China relations and spoke passionately about the need to engage China on business and non-business issues alike. As a member of the House Committee on Science & Technology, Rep. Wu is a leading proponent of U.S.-China Human space flight cooperation.  Cost savings and bridge building were given as reasons for the two countries to work together.  While not on AmCham’s list of top three priorities, we couldn’t agree more that increased collaboration in science and technology between the U.S. and China should be a priority. 

More directly related to AmCham member’s day to day business conerns, Rep. Wu was enthusiastic about AmCham Shanghai’s China Greentech Report, released on September 9th at the Dalian, China World Economic Forum. Rep. Wu offered to continue working with AmCham on Greentech and clean energy and partnering with Portland based companies and organizations was discussed.   

We look forward to Rep. Wu’s next visit to Shanghai and hope to see him soon!