With the U.S. elections just one month away, we are pleased to welcome renowned China expert Dr. Bates Gill to offer his insights on the U.S.'s China policy – and the future of U.S.-China relations in light of the upcoming elections. Under the Biden administration, U.S. China policy has largely continued along the competitive path set by former President Trump, and both principal candidates – Trump and Harris – are expected to maintain this hard-edged trajectory, though in very different and potentially destabilizing ways.

Join us on October 23 for this off-the-record Executive Roundtable as we explore future U.S. China policy, discuss the intensifying rivalry between these two global powers, and consider the implications of the election for that relationship, for Europe, and for the broader geopolitical landscape.

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Dr. Bates Gill is Senior Fellow at Asia Society Australia. He is also a Senior Fellow in Asian Security at The National Bureau of Asian Research and with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.

Before joining The National Bureau of Asian Research, he was Executive Director of Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (CCA) where he led a team of research fellows, associated researchers, and administrative staff. Prior to joining the Asia Society, Bates held a number of research and academic leadership positions in the Indo-Pacific, Europe and United States. Most recently, he was professor and chair of the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University in Sydney and was also the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence with the Asia Society Australia. In other previous roles, he served as director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), as the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and as founding director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.

Among his other professional affiliations, Bates is a Senior Associate Fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London and serves on the Board of Governors of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and on the International Advisory Board of the Shanghai Institutes of International Studies.

The author or editor of nine books on China- and Asia-related topics, his most recent book, Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping was published in 2022 by Oxford University Press. He has more than 200 other publications and conducted research-related travel to more than 60 countries. Bates has consulted for corporations, government agencies, and philanthropic organizations, lectured widely and provided U.S. Congressional and other parliamentary testimony related to Asian and global affairs, and made more than 600 appearances in print, broadcast and digital media.

He received his Ph.D. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, lived and worked in China for two years, and has made more than 60 working visits to the country. Bates received the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star, the highest award bestowed upon foreigners by the Swedish monarch, for his contributions to Swedish interests.