[PATRONS–ONLY EVENT] The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the U.S. and Xi Jinping’s China
VIEW EVENT DETAILSCocktail Reception & Discussion
***This is a Patrons-only program and registration is required***
5:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception
6 p.m. Discussion
The relationship between the U.S. and China, the world’s two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault — of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and be offended. Their militaries play a dangerous game of chicken, corporations steal intellectual property, intelligence satellites peer, and AI technicians plot. The capacity for either country to cross a fatal line grows daily.
The Asia Society Policy Institute’s (ASPI) Avoidable War Project has culminated in the publication of a book on U.S.-China relations by Asia Society and ASPI President Kevin Rudd, titled "The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China." The work demystifies the actions of both sides, explaining and translating them for the benefit of the other. Geopolitical disaster is still avoidable, but only if these two giants can find a way to coexist without betraying their core interests through what Rudd calls “managed strategic competition.” Should they fail, down that path lies the possibility of a war that could rewrite the future of both countries, and the world.
Join us in-person for a Patrons-only cocktail reception and discussion with Asia Society and ASPI President Kevin Rudd. Complimentary copies of The Avoidable War are available for Patrons.
To register for this special opportunity or join as a Patron of Asia Society, please email [email protected] or call 212-327-9369.
Speakers
The Hon. Kevin Rudd AC is President and CEO of the Asia Society, and inaugural President of the Asia Society Policy Institute. He served as 26th Prime Minister of Australia (2007 to 2010, 2013) and as Foreign Minister (2010 to 2012). He is Chair of the Board of the International Peace Institute in New York, and Chair of Sanitation and Water for All – a global partnership of government and non-governmental organizations dedicated to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6. He is a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House and the Paulson Institute, and a Distinguished Statesman with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization’s Group of Eminent Persons.
Hamid Biglari is currently a member of the senior management of Point72 Asset Management, one of the world’s major hedge funds, where his focus is the application of advanced data analytics to financial markets. From 2013 to 2016, he served as a Managing Partner at TGG Group, a private firm dual-focused on creating new companies and providing advisory services to Fortune 100 companies around the transformative business applications of behavioral science and Big Data analytics.
From 2000 to 2013, he was a senior executive at Citigroup, most recently as Vice-Chairman and Head of Emerging Markets. He was a member of Citigroup's Global Operating Committee and held various senior management roles throughout his 13-year tenure at the institution. Prior to joining Citigroup, Dr. Biglari was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he co-led the Firm's investment banking consulting practice. In that role, he advised CEOs at major financial institutions around the world. His experience base spans the entire spectrum of financial services. Prior to that, Dr. Biglari was a theoretical nuclear physicist at Princeton University's Plasma Physics Laboratory, the nation's leading center for controlled thermonuclear fusion research.
He is a member of Council on Foreign Relations and a Trustee of Asia Society. He also sits on the Advisory Board of the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. An Iranian-American, Dr. Biglari was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2009, given for outstanding contributions to the United States by immigrants.
Dr. Biglari holds a Ph.D. degree in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University.
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