Note:
(a) The Portuguese and Galician surname Medeiros is name of places so named, "from Portuguese and Galician medeiro ‘place where shocks of maize are gathered’ (a derivative of meda ‘shock’, ‘stack’, Latin meta ‘(pyramid-shaped) post’)."
(b) Evan S Medeiros was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation in the Washington, DC office. He holds, among other degrees, MA in China Studies from the University of London (versed in Mandarin) and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics,
(c) Past Event: 35 Years of US-China Relations: Diplomacy, Culture and Soft Power. Brookings Institution, undated (video/audio length: 2:20, two hours 20 minutes) www.brookings.edu/events/2014/03/28-35-years-us-china-relations
(4:30 [PM] 35 Years of Diplomatic Ties. [speaker:] Evan Medeiros[,] Senior Director of Asian Affairs[,] National Security Council; Moderator[:] Cheng Li)
(d) From the entire event, perhaps the same video and audio recording:
Obviously there is a transcript, but I do not know how to access it.
(e) Xi Jinping Meets with US President Barack Obama. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China, Mar 25, 2014 www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zxxx/t1140973.shtml
("Xi Jinping stressed, on the Taiwan issue and Tibet-related issues, the US side should abide by its commitment of respecting China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and no support for activities aimed at splitting China. On the East China Sea issue and the South China Sea issue, the US side should adopt an objective, fair and just attitude, distinguish right from wrong and do more things helpful to promote proper resolutions to the issues and to ease the situation. * * * [Obama:] The US has no intention to damage the stability in China or contain China * * * Obama reiterated that, on the Taiwan issue and Tibet-related issues, the US side respect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity")