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www.Emergency.com Biography
Clark Staten is a U.S. Army veteran, former police officer, and former certified paramedic. Staten retired in 1995 as an Asst. Chief Paramedic and a twenty (20) year veteran of the Chicago Fire Department. He has participated in and managed more than 12,500 emergency responses. Chief Staten has been a frequent lecturer on the tactics and political implications of domestic and international Terrorism, Street Survival, Hazardous Materials, Chem/Bio Consequence Management, Media Relations, Management & Motivation Methods, Productivity, Mass Casualty/Disaster Management, Computers and Information Systems, Security planning, Crisis Intervention & Critical Incident Stress, and several other specialized rescue and security topics.

Staten is a certified DoD Domestic Preparedness Instructor-Trainer and has taught at the U.S. Army Chemical school at Ft. McClellan, AL. He has also been employed as a contract counter-terrorism instructor for the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, NATO and a number of law enforcement, Fire, and EMS agencies. Staten also produced instructional materials concerning Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that were used in the U.S. Army Command and Staff School on "Homeland Defense," and was contracted to assist in the preparation of a course for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in regard to damage assessment and remediation for WMD incidents.

In 1998, Staten was appointed to be the Emergency Management Advisor to the International Association of Counter-Terrorism and Security Professionals (IACSP), and in 1999 received the IACSP 1999 National Leadership Award. In March of 2000, Staten was named to the Center For Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) Terrorism Task Force.

Chief Staten has taught a variety of emergency-related topics at more at more than 160 international, national, regional, state and local conferences. Staten has also appeared on the CNN, BBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CBC, FOX, and the Voice of America (VOA) networks in regards to terrorism, crisis, and other emergency issues. In 2001, Staten was hired as an on-air consultant and analyst for FOX news (WFLD-TV) in Chicago.

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Session IN31: Unravelling Chinese Expansionism - War or Peace?
February 20, 9:00 - 9:45 Abstract:
As China seeks a path of modernization and expansion the world needs to be prepared for the ramifications. This presentation will be delivered in two parts, the first looking at rise of China in the past two decades and the second part examining its military future and how the world needs to prepare itself.

Jeremy Zakis, Sydney-based Senior Analyst and Asia Pacific Correspondent for the Emergency Response and Research Institute, will discuss China's economic growth and policies post-1970s, where Beijing actively sought to modernize and grow the country at a staggering rate, even by today's standards.

While Asian nations initially welcomed the economic benefits of Chinese open markets and open diplomacy, its bullish influence and rising demand for resources is fast becoming a threat the Asia Pacific region and world must deal with.

As the Chinese military machine is reconfigured in line with modernization, the United States and allies must be prepared for the possibility that Chinese expansionism will not be entirely peaceful.

The second part of this presentation will be delivered by Emergency Response and Research Institute CEO and Senior Analyst Clark Staten and examines in detail the underlying philosophy and technical development of the Chinese military in the past decade and what can be anticipated in China in the future.

In order to be effective in negotiations with the Chinese, the United States and her allies must be prepared to understand the Chinese historical perspective as well as the needs and desires of the Chinese in the 21st Century.