Upcoming | The Future of Great Power Relations

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Upcoming | The Future of Great Power Relations

March 01 , 2022

This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s ice-breaking trip to China followed by the signing of the Shanghai Communique. 50 years on, the bilateral relationship is fraught with tensions. The recent breathtaking development in Ukraine is making the strategic competition even more complex with profound implications for the international order. In this extraordinary time, how can we order the future of great power relations into perspective? How will the US-China relations move forward in the context of important political events in both countries? While we look back in history, is “re-icebreaking” between the world’s two largest economies possible in the future?On March 3rd, the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) is pleased to host a CCG Global Dialogue program in partnership with the China Conference of Harvard Kennedy School.This dialogue features Dr. Wang Huiyao, founder and president of CCG and Dr. Graham Allison, the founding dean of Harvard Kennedy School who is best known in China for his notion of “Thucydides Trap” in public debates about US-China competition.

Speakers:

Graham T. Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School; Former Director for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Founding Dean of Harvard Kennedy School

Wang Huiyao, Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization

Moderator:

Leo Liu, MPA Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School

Speakers

Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University where he has taught for five decades. Professor Allison is a leading analyst of national security with special interests in nuclear weapons, Russia, China, and decision-making. He was the “Founding Dean” of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and until 2017, served as Director of its Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs which is ranked the “#1 University Affiliated Think Tank” in the world. As Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, Dr. Allison received the Defense Department’s highest civilian award, the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, for “reshaping relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to reduce the former Soviet nuclear arsenal.” This resulted in the safe return of more than 12,000 tactical nuclear weapons from the former Soviet republics and the complete elimination of more than 4,000 strategic nuclear warheads previously targeted at the United States and left in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus when the Soviet Union disappeared.Dr. Allison is the author of eight books. His latest book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (2017), is a worldwide bestseller. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, now in its third printing, was selected by the New York Times as one of the “100 most notable books of 2004.” Dr. Allison’s first book, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), ranks among the all-time bestsellers with more than 500,000 copies in print.

Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang is Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG). He is a Vice Chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation (CAIEC) under the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), Vice Chairman, China Talent Research Society under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. He is also Vice Chairman of China Public Relations Association; a Director of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and a Director of China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, both organizations under the supervision of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a Professor and Dean of the Institute of Development at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China. Dr. Wang is a member of Advisory Committee for Global Competence Development of Tsinghua University and serves on the Advising Board of Duke-Kunshan University.Dr. Wang is a Steering Committee Member of Paris Peace Forum and was an Advising Board Member for International Organization of Migration (IOM) of the UN. He pursued his doctoral studies at University of Western Ontario and University of Manchester, and obtained PhD degree in international management. He was a Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution, a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Fellow at Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. He has published over 100 books in English and Chinese along with hundreds of journal articles and opinion pieces on global relations, global governance, global migration, China outbound and inbound investment and trade, Chinese Diasporas and Chinese think tanks.

He is the editor of China and Globalization Series which includes Consensus or Conflict? China and Globalization in the 21st Century co-edited by Huiyao Wang and Alistair Michie (Springer-Nature, 2021 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-5391-9) and The Asian 21st Century by Kishore Mahbubani (Springer-Nature, 2021 , https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-6811-1).

He is also a frequent speaker at international events such as the World Economic Forum, Munich Security Conference, Paris Peace Forum, WTO Public Forum, Munk Debate, Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, and Milken Global Forum. Over the past year, Dr. Wang launched “CCG Global Dialogue” series, inviting global thought leaders and prominent scholars including Graham T. Allison Jr., Kerry Brown, Neil Bush, Kent E. Calder, Wendy Cutler, Angus Deaton, David J. Firestein, Thomas L. Friedman, Valerie Hansen, John Hamre, Wolfgang Ischinger, David M. Lampton, Pascal Lamy, Kishore Mahbubani, Jim O’Neill, Stephen S. Roach, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Adam S. Posen, J. Stapleton Roy, Anthony Saich, Lawrence H. Summers, John L. Thornton, Susan A. Thornton and Martin Wolf, to discuss issues related to China-US relations, globalization, global economy, international development, and China’s role in the world.

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