Premium-only Briefing | Where Next for UK-China Relations?

Date: Tuesday 15th September 2020

Time: 14:00 - 15:00 BST (UK time)

21:00 - 22:00 CST (China time)

Format: Webinar

Open to: Premium members only

During this event we will explore how pragmatic engagement with China can be achieved.

China is the world’s second largest economy, and is now the UK’s third biggest export market for goods – up from 28th in 2000. How can the UK balance its political and economic affairs to achieve a load-bearing relationship? With domestic and international pressures for a more hawkish policy, will the UK be able to adopt a nuanced approach?

During the session we will look to delve into:

• China's foreign policy - looking at the past, present, and future

• Comparisons between the UK and US engagement trajectories

• The impact of the upcoming US presidential election

• The importance of multilateralism vs. independent relationships

We do hope you will be able to join us.

RSVP

If you would like to join this webinar, please confirm attendance by emailing to [e-mail], Isabel Curnock, Assistant Director - Premium Member Programme, CBBC.

There are no restrictions to the number of attendees per Premium member company to join.

There will also be the opportunity to ask live questions during the session.

Speakers

Professor Rana Mitter

Rana Mitter OBE FBA is the Director of the University China Centre, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books, including China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival, 1937-1945 (Penguin, 2013), which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics "Meanwhile in Beijing" is available on BBC Sounds. He is co-author, with Sophia Gaston, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group, 2020).

Dr Evan S. Medeiros

Dr Evan S. Medeiros is the Penner Family Chair in Asia Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His research and teaching focuses on the international politics of East Asia, U.S.-China relations and China’s foreign and national security policies. He has published several books and articles and regularly provides advice and commentary to global corporations and the international media.   

Dr Medeiros currently advises multinational companies on China in his current role as Senior Advisor with The Asia Group and previously as a Managing Director at Eurasia Group.  Prior to joining the White House, Dr. Medeiros worked for seven years as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. From 2007-2008, he also served as policy advisor to Secretary Hank Paulson working on the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue at the Treasury Department.

Dr Medeiros holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, in addition to an M.Phil degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge (where he was a Fulbright Scholar), a M.A. degree in China studies from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, and a B.A. degree in analytic philosophy from Bates College in Maine.

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