The United States Capitol         June 4, 2019 It’s my great pleasure to welcome you to the National Endowment for Democracy’s Democracy Award ceremony, which this year is taking place on the 30

Responding to China in the New Era The United States Congress, December 10, 2018 The first and most important point I want to convey to you this morning is that we are now in an entirely new period in relations between the United States and China. In my view,...

The United States Capitol, December 10, 2018 I’m proud to present the Citizen Power Award of the Thirteenth Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conference to Bao Tong. Bao Tong is an important reformer from the 1980s, the reform period of Hu Yaobang and the early Deng Xiaoping....

I want to thank Andy and Mike Manatos and the Oxi Day Foundation for giving this important Oxi Courage Award to Liu Xia, a Chinese poet and photographer and a woman of unparalleled moral courage. I had the rare privilege of meeting Liu Xia last month in New York when we were both there to take part...

The Bohemian National Hall in New York, September 27, 2018 I feel privileged to have the honor of presenting Liao Yiwu with the Disturbing the Peace Award, given annually by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation to a courageous writer-at-risk...

India-U.S. Relations: Building Democratic Cooperation New Delhi, August 7, 2018 For more than two decades I have been part of an effort by a small group of Americans associated with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the...

Remarks by Carl Gershman at CSIS Forum, July 17, 2018

Keynote address at The 15th Anniversary Celebration of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy It’s a great honor for me to make keynote remarks at this celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD), and to follow President Tsai Ing-wen, who is an...

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your continued support for the National Endowment for Democracy. The NED was authorized by Congress in 1983 as an independent grant-making organization to fund brave actors on...

Remarks Delivered by Carl Gershman at the Memorial Service Organized by ChinaAid Washington, D.C. , March 22, 2018 When the National Endowment for Democracy presented Li Baiguang with its Democracy Award in 2008, just weeks before the Beijing Olympics, we noted...