Jack Marr, a clinical associate professor and International Business Hub director in the Department of Management, hosted and gave framing remarks for the fourth annual U.S. Idaho China Town Hall in November. The theme was “From Potato Chips to Micro Chips: Idaho’s special place in the U.S.-China Trade Dispute.” Speakers were Joel Poppen, senior vice president and chief counsel at Micron, and Laura Johnson, bureau chief of marketing and development for the Idaho Department of Agriculture.
This was part of an international China Town Hall event at 80-plus locations worldwide, with the national panel lead by ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos. China Town Hall events are organized by the national committee on U.S.-China relations, which among other things created the ping-pong diplomacy strategy that warmed the waters for the U.S. China detente in 1972.