The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission will conduct a public hearing today on “China's Role in the Origins of and Response to the Global Recession.” The hearing will examine the origins of the financial crisis and China’s role in its genesis, China’s short term and long term economic goals and prospects, the effect of the crisis on the U.S-China economic relationship, and how the economy is related to political stability in China.   Scheduled to testify are Dr. Nicholas R. Lardy, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; Dr. Stephen S. Roach, Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia; Ms. Alexandra Harney, author of “The China Price”; Mr. Gordon Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”; Dr. Wing Thye Woo, Professor of Economics at the University of California at Davis and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution; Dr. Derek Scissors, Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation; Mr. Michael Pettis, Professor of Finance at Peking University;  and Dr. Eswar Prasad, Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. A copy of the complete hearing agenda is attached at the end of this press announcement.