Dr. Da Hsuan Feng, Chair of the International Advisory Council of the Asian Studies at UTD

As Dr. Kratz stated, the Asian Studies of UTD was founded in the hope of “to bring scholars with both a Chinese and a Western perspective to together provide a balanced commentary on global issues”, three scholars who come from different backgrounds but share that same vision exchanged their views on the next chapter of the US-China relations.

This lecture took place at a critical historical moment, which was following the face-to-face talks between high-ranking US and Chinese government officials and not to mention it has just been announced that John Kerry, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and formerly the Secretary of State was set to visit Shanghai to discuss climate issues.

Dr. Wang Huiyao, President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG)

During the lecture, Dr. Wang shared his insights on the implications of the recent in-person meeting of high-ranking US and China officials in Anchorage, Alaska, for hopes of a “long-anticipated start of warming bilateral relations” between the two nations during the Biden Administration. Dr. Wang suggested that co-opetition and strategic competition are likely to be the new direction of the China-US relations. In addition, issues of global governance including pandemic fighting, poverty elimination, infrastructure and the internet were also addressed by Dr. Wang, referring to China’s experience in them.

This event was co-sponsored by the School of Arts and Humanities and School of Economics, Political and Policy Science of UTD, Dallas Museum of Art, Crow Collection of Asian Art at UTD, Wildenthal Honors College, Center for Global Business at JSOM and Edith O’Donnell Institute for Art History.