Time&Venue

15:30-17:00 Wednesday, May 8, 2024

North Pavilion, PKU（Sign up required）

Language：English

Lecturer：Ashley Tellis

Moderator：Gui Yongtao

Topic: The Future of US-China Competition: Risks without Rewards?

The evolving U.S.-China competition promises to become the defining feature of international politics in the foreseeable future. The U.S. objective in this competition consists of preserving its primacy in diverse dimensions in concert with allies and friends, whereas China’s objective consists of sustaining its rise in ways that Washington perceives would make it a peer competitor of the United States. President Joe Biden’s approach to strategic competition with China has been framed in terms of preserving U.S. technological and military advantages and “de-risking”—protecting U.S. and allied supply chains in order to secure resiliency. Can this most recent turn in U.S. strategy deliver? The talk will address the strengths and limitations of the Biden strategy in the context of the U.S. desire to protect its strategic interests.  

Ashley Tellis

Ashley J. Tellis holds the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in international security and U.S. foreign and defense policy with a special focus on Asia and the Indian subcontinent. While on assignment to the U.S. Department of State as senior adviser to the undersecretary of State for political affairs, he was intimately involved in negotiating the civil nuclear agreement with India. Previously he was commissioned into the Foreign Service and served as senior adviser to the ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. He also served on the National Security Council staff as special assistant to President George W. Bush and senior director for strategic planning and Southwest Asia.

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