John Milligan-Whyte

In China & America's Responsibilities in Mankind's Future he asserts that the thought and behavior processes of human beings which evolved over billions of years prior to the Age of Species Lethal Weapons and Science is in the process of leading to the human Gene Pool's extinction. He views genetic engineering of the human Gene Pool as urgent, essential and justified in order to prevent its extinction. He also asserts that medicine is fundamentally a phenomenon of physics and that few medical doctors also have doctorates in physics. In a People's Daily Online article, "How to reduce America's budget by 45%", he called for the creation of research, teaching and treatment hospitals that combine expertise in genetic engineering, theoretic and experimental physics, American, Chinese and stem cell medicine and the comparative analysis of the cost, effectiveness and painfulness of each of those treatment modalities alone or in combination to make 21st century health care globally more effective and less costly and painful. He has proposed that the prototype of such research, educational and clinical hospitals be created in Jilin Province, China.

John Milligan-Whyte (born February 17, 1952, in Pasadena, USA) is a businessman, lawyer and moral and political philosopher, who China's official media refer to as the "new Edgar Snow" and the "twenty-first century Kissinger." He is the co-author of the Proposed US-China Grand Strategy Agreement Between President Hu and President Obama and of books that present grand strategies required for the collaboration of civilizations and the prevention of human extinction.

Milligan-Whyte is the Chairman of the Reinsurance and Finance Center, a think tank founded by Whyte DaiMin Investments Limited, that works with government entities and indigenous and international underwriting and broking companies in China's insurance and reinsurance markets. He advised and was a director of various reinsurance companies from 1984 to 2008. He was appointed Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee Advising Bermuda's Minister of Finance on Reinsurance and Insolvency Law and a member of the Bermuda Law Reform Commission and of the United States' National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Advisory Council Revising the United States' Model Insurance Act. He was elected Vice Chairman of the American Bar Association's Tort and Insurance Section, co-edited and co-authored The Law & Practice Of International Reinsurance Collections and Insolvency, and published influential reinsurance articles.

From 1984 to 2008 Milligan-Whyte was a founding partner in Milligan-Whyte & Smith in Bermuda, which became a World Economic Forum member in 1992 and co-recipient of the International Financial Law Review's Asian M&A Deal of the Year Award in 2002 for its advisory role in China Netcom's acquisition of assets of Asia Global Crossing, the first foreign acquisition by a Chinese state owned company. He created the firm's reinsurance, insolvency, venture capital, litigation, arbitration and China practices and advised governments, publicly traded and privately owned multinational companies, hedge funds, trusts, high-net-worth individuals and entrepreneurs from around the world.

Milligan-Whyte is an Honorary Research Professor at Beijing University, Senior Advisor to the Venture Capital Research Center at Renmin University, a Guest Professor at China's University of International Business & Economy and Beijing Foreign Studies University and a Fellow of the Center for International Legal Studies in Strasburg, Austria. He was called to the Ontario and Canadian Bars in 1984 and the Bermuda Bar in 1985 and received a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Laws and Juris Doctorate degrees from the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School, Queen's Law School in Canada, continuing legal education at Harvard Law School, and executive education at Harvard Business School.

Milligan-Whyte proposed to Dai Min the day after they met in 1997. Seven years later, she accepted. They were married and founded the Center for America China Partnership in 2005 and incorporated the America China Partnership Foundation in New York in 2007. They are the author and co-author of the America-China Partnership Book Series. In 2009 the official media of the Chinese government, China Daily, named the Center "the first American think tank to combine and integrate American and Chinese perspectives providing a complete answer for America and China's success in the 21st century." The Chinese government's National Development and Reform Commission and the Beijing Foreign Studies University, which has produced 90% of China's diplomats, signed Memoranda of Cooperation with the Center and Foundation to implement the "New School of US-China Partnership" in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

At the request of the Director General of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Milligan-Whyte and Dai Min wrote and delivered A White Paper for the Presidents of America and China summarizing their America-China Partnership Book Series and the "New School of US-China Relations", which their books created. The White Paper was used in President Hu's preparations for negotiations with President Obama in 2009. The text of A White Paper for the Presidents of America and China is available at the Center for America China Partnership's website.

The first two books in the America China Partnership Series, China & America's Emerging Partnership: A New Realistic Perspective and New China Business Strategies: Chinese & American Companies as Global Partners, were recognized by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Daily and People's Daily as creating a "New School of US China Relations providing a complete answer for America and China's success in the 21st century", which was announced at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the first Global Think Tank Summit and in Foreign Affairs magazine in 2009.

Milligan-Whyte is chairman of Whyte DaiMin Investments Limited and affiliated companies, which invest and joint venture globally with Chinese and non-Chinese companies in the toxic waste cleanup, water purification, electricity, cement, aviation, reinsurance, biomedical technology, stem cell treatment and genetic engineering industries. He advises the Provincial Government of Jilin and the cities of Tianjin and Chongqing, two of the five leading Chinese municipal governments with key roles and special economic zones directly administered by the State Council. He was named as one of China's Top Fifty Business Leaders, and received 12,534 votes and was elected the winner of the Outstanding China Business Leaders Social Responsibility Award from the China Business Leaders' 2010 Summit sponsored by China's governing party's Central Committee, the Chinese Government's State Council Information Office, China News and Red Flag Magazine, making him the only non-Chinese recipient in the award's history. In 2007 the Chairman of the World Economic Forum and Managing Editor of the Harvard Business Review selected him as a participant in the World Economic Forum's Inaugural Meeting of New Champions. From 1992 to 2008 he was Chairman of CORE Capital Ltd and an early stage investor in a securities firm, a telecommunications company and an e-commerce start up company, and was a director of currency trading software, broadcasting, WiFi, e-Smart technology, Internet, insurance, reinsurance, shipping, aircraft leasing, and hedge fund companies.

In 2010 John Milligan-Whyte, Dai Min and Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, respectively the Chairman, President and Executive Vice President of the Center for America China Partnership, drafted a Proposed China US Grand Strategy Agreement between President Hu and President Obama with input and support from China's: Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Former UN Ambassador, Former U.S. Ambassador, Former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the PLA, Former Military Attaché to North Korea and Israel, Former Vice Minister of Commerce, China's Central Party School Institute of International Strategic Studies, Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs, China Center for International Economic Exchanges, China Institute For International Strategic Studies, China Foundation for International & Strategic Studies, Boao Forum, and State Council's China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, which prepares classified briefing documents for China's President, Premier and State Councilors. Footage of the meetings is available online.

China-US Relations in the Obama Administration: Facing Shared Challenges, which they published in 2010 in English, is the only book authored by an American to be translated into Mandarin and published in China by the Central Party School since Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in 1989. The book's original English title, "China and America's Leadership in Peaceful Coexistence", was changed to match the Chinese title, 《致奥巴马总统和胡锦涛主席的外交关系白皮书》, given in Mandarin by the Central Party School. In this book, Milligan-Whyte explains the convergence of US and China's security needs, the "New School of US-China Relations" perspectives and the advantages for both the US and China in aligning their national security if the US reciprocates China's peaceful coexistence policies.

In the America-China Partnership Book Series, Milligan-Whyte also presents grand strategies for preventing human extinction. In China & America's Responsibilities in Mankind's Future, published in English in 2010, which the Central Party School has also translated into Mandarin for publication in China, he pioneered two other new research areas which he terms the "New School of the Human Extinction Challenge" and the "New School of the Philosophy, Genetics and Physics of Moral Authority." Milligan-Whyte asserts that mankind's fundamental 21st century foreign policy, defense strategy and scientific research issue is discovering how to prevent human extinction in what he terms "The Age of Species Lethal Weapons and Science". He rejects Samuel Huntington's contention in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order that the clash of civilizations is inevitable. Milligan-Whyte asserts that mankind has no Future in clash of civilization because of the power of 21st century weapons, technology and science and that collaboration of civilizations is essential if mankind is to prevent its extinction.