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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