Location: Virtual Event - Zoom
Date: Tue, Jun 22
Time: 1130 ET
Cost: Free
Type: RSVP Required
Details: Although consensus appears to have been reached in the United States on the adversarial nature of its relationship with China, opinions on how to engage—or disengage—with China are diverse. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the US–China relationship will be “competitive when it should be, collaborative when it can be and adversarial when it must be.” Is that a viable approach?
Biographies: Anna Ashton is vice president of government affairs, at the US-China Business Council, developing and implementing USCBC’s advocacy on behalf of member companies. She previously served as the director of business advisory services, leading staff across USCBC’s three offices in providing member companies with analysis of China’s commercial policies, business operating environment, and best practices. She began her career as an intelligence officer for the Department of Defense, and at the Arkansas Economic Development Commission where she developed a strategy for Chinese trade delegations and investment.
Rachel Esplin Odell is a Research Fellow in the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute and an expert in U.S. strategy toward Asia, Chinese foreign policy, and maritime disputes. Prior to joining the Quincy Institute, she was an International Security Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. Odell also previously worked as a Research Analyst in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, co-authoring several policy reports and organizing numerous public forums, government briefings, and Track II workshops. She has served in the China Affairs bureau of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and received her Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kori Schake is the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Before joining AEI, Dr. Schake was the deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has had a distinguished career in government, working at the US State Department, the US Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. Dr. Schake is the author of five books, among them “Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony” (Harvard University Press, 2017). She is also the coeditor, along with former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, of “Warriors & Citizens: American Views of Our Military” (Hoover Institution Press, 2016).