After a phase one trade deal brought a tinge of optimism to the U.S.-China relationship back in January, a confluence of issues and events throughout 2020 have compounded to pull relations between the two superpowers to their lowest levels in decades. While blame-games over responsibility for the global COVID-19 pandemic set the foundation for several months of acrimony, the two countries have been entangled in myriad disputes over global governance, technology exchange, supply chains, immigration policies, and human rights. While the leaders of the world’s two largest economies continue to offer sharply different visions of the current international order, is it at all possible for meaningful cooperation to be unearthed between them, or are relations on course to devolve even further? 

AGENDA

Day1: Tuesday, December 1, 2020

8:00-8:30 a.m.        Opening Remarks & Keynote Interview

9:00-9:50 a.m.        After the Election — The Next Four Years of U.S.-China Relations

10:20-11:10 a.m.    A View from Outside: Will the World be Forced to "Pick a Side" in the

                               U.S.-China Rivalry?

11:40-12:30 p.m.    To Be Announced

1:00-1:50 p.m.         A Race to the Top — Who Can Reach the 5G Summit First?

Day 2: Wednesday, December 2, 2020

8:00-8:30 a.m.         Keynote Interview

9:00-9:50 a.m.         Wake Up Call — The Impact of COVID-19 on Trade and Supply Chains

10:20-11:10 a.m.     Closing Borders: The Impact of Visa Denials and Travel Bans

11:40-12:30 p.m.     To Be Announced

1:00-1:50 p.m.         Uncensored: The Future of Internet Policies and Regulations

SPEAKERS

• The Hon. Kevin Rudd AC, President, Asia Society Policy Institute, Former Prime Minister of Australia 
• Long Yongtu, Former Vice Minister, Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, People's Republic of China
• Gary Liu, Chief Executive Officer, South China Morning Post
• Craig Allen, President, US-China Business Council
• Myron Brilliant, Executive Vice President and Head of International Affairs, US Chamber of Commerce
• Wendy Cutler, Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute
• Susan M. Elliott, President & CEO, National Committee on American Foreign Policy
• Bonnie S. Glaser, Senior Adviser for Asia & Director, China Power Project, CSIS
• Ashkhen Kazaryan, Director of Civil Liberties, TechFreedom
• Robert Holleyman, President & CEO, Crowell & Moring International
• Yukon Huang, Senior Fellow, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
• Donald J. Morrissey, Vice President, Congressional, State, and Local Government Affairs, Huawei Technologies (USA)
• Stephen A. Orlins, President, National Committee on United States-China Relations
• Martijn Rasser, Senior Fellow, Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security
• J. Stapleton Roy, Director Emeritus, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Daniel Russel, Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute
• David Shambaugh, Gaston Sigur Professor & Founding Director, China Policy Program, George Washington University
• Nicol Turner-Lee, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies & Director, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution
• Robert D. Williams, Executive Director, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School