Thomas Fingar delivered a special address on the first day of the annual FACES Conference, "On Common Ground."

Every year, the Forum for American Chinese Exchange at Stanford (FACES) puts together two week-long academic conferences at Stanford and in China, inviting some of the most prestigious scholars to address carefully selected student delegates on many different aspects of Sino-American relations.

FACES carefully narrows its delegates from a pool of hundreds of qualified candidates to a group of forty (twenty from both the U.S. and China) who will likely play critical roles in maintaining stable and peaceful U.S.-China relations well into the future.