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The US and China: 7 years of discord and implications for Europe

Webinar · 28.05.2024 16:00 - 17:00

TRANSATLANTIC CURRENTS
The US and China: 7 years of discord and implications for Europe

Tuesday, 28 May, 2024 at 16:00-17:00 EEST/15:00-16:00 CEST

With the unleashing of a trade/tariff war with China in 2018, the United States shifted from a strategy of dialogue and engagement to a policy of competition, containment, and coercion. Relying on the increasingly questioned norms and institutions established by the West after WWII, the U.S. is seeking partnerships to bypass China in global supply chains, global investment, and standard setting. What have been the results of this approach? Ambassador Chas Freeman, visiting scholar at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Chargé in Beijing, will share his frank assessment, including effects on the global order, major alliances, China’s own policies and U.S. diplomacy.

This webinar is a part of a webinar series Transatlantic Currents featuring American experts of political science and international relations organized by the Center on US Politics and Power at FIIA. The series covers a wide array of timely topics from foreign and defense policy to domestic issues.

Programme:

Opening words: Charly Salonius-Pasternak, Leading Researcher, FIIA

Speaker: Ambassador Chas Freeman, Visiting scholar, Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Chair: Ambassador Deborah McCarthy, Non-Resident Fellow, FIIA

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Speakers

Opening words

Charly Salonius-Pasternak

Leading Researcher, FIIA

Charly Salonius-Pasternak is a Leading Researcher at FIIA and leads the work of the Center on US Politics and Power (CUSPP). His work at FIIA focuses on international security issues, especially Nordic and transatlantic security (including NATO), as well as U.S. foreign and defence policy. Recently he has focused on Finnish-Swedish defence cooperation and the evolution of US and NATO alliance reassurance approaches in light of the changed regional security situation. In 2017, he was a visiting research fellow at the Changing Character of War programme at Pembroke College (Oxford University), where he studied the hybridization of warfare and the impact of the Information Age on the character of war.

Speaker

Ambassador Chas Freeman

Visiting scholar, Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Chas W. Freeman, Jr. is a visiting scholar at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and chairs Projects International, Inc. Ambassador Freeman served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires in Bangkok and Beijing and Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. He was the principal American interpreter during President Nixon’s 1972 visit to Beijing (https://www.chinafile.com/nixon-china)

Chair

Ambassador Deborah McCarthy

Non-Resident Fellow, FIIA

Ambassador (ret) Deborah A. McCarthy is an expert on U.S. foreign and national security policy. Currently, she is the Senior Advisor on U.S. Engagement in the UN Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement at the U.S. Department of State. She is also a non-resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Recently, she was a Senior Fellow at Harvard University.

In her diplomatic career, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania (2013-2016), Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Greece and at the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua. In Washington, she was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Narcotics and Law Enforcement, Senior Advisor for Counter Terrorism and Special Coordinator for Venezuela. Other diplomatic postings include Consul General Montreal, Economic Counselor U.S. Embassy Paris, Financial Economist U.S. Embassy Rome and assignments in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Ms. McCarthy received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and a joint M.S. in Economics and Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She serves on the Boards of the Academy of Diplomacy and of the Command and General Staff College Foundation. She is a member of the Advisory Council for the MSFS Program at Georgetown University.