The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
Featuring:
Thomas Christensen
Author, The China Challenge
Director, China and the World Program, Princeton University
with commentary from:
Daniel Blumenthal
Director, Asian Studies
American Enterprise Institute
Michael Swaine
Senior Associate, Asia Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Moderated by:
Scott Kennedy
Deputy Director, Freeman Chair in China Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Is China’s rise a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond? Thomas Christensen argues against this zero-sum vision. Instead, he describes a new paradigm in which the real challenge lies in dissuading China from regional aggression while encouraging the country to contribute to the global order. If China obstructs international efforts to confront nuclear proliferation, civil conflicts, financial instability, and climate change, those efforts will falter, but even if China merely declines to support such efforts, the problems will grow vastly more complicated. Drawing on decades of scholarship and experience as a senior diplomat, Christensen offers a new assessment of global governance and U.S.-China relations. Please join us for what promises to be a rich discussion featuring author Thomas Christensen, and commentators Daniel Blumenthal from the American Enterprise Institute and Michael Swaine from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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