A Chill Wind? China-US Relations in 2010 PDF Print E-mail

Shen Dingli and Kenneth Jarrett

Mesa
Thursday March 4th, 7pm (talk starts at 7.30)

The Google affair and the war of words over hacking; China’s angry response to US arms sales to Taiwan; continued disputes over the value of the RMB… Are these just the usual bumps on the sometimes rocky road of Sino-US relations, or is there a new assertiveness on China’s part, combined with a US administration still feeling its way on China policy, which could lead the two nations into uncharted territory?  Kenneth Jarrett, former US Consul-General in Shanghai, and now Vice Chairman for Greater China of APCO Worldwide, and Shen Dingli, Director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University, will share their views on the current state of affairs.


Venue details: The Mix, 1/F, Mesa, 748 Julu Lu, near Fumin Lu (6289 9108)
 
Admission: Members free; Non-members 50 RMB
 
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About the Speakers:
Before joining APCO Worldwide, Kenneth Jarrett was Consul General of the United States in Shanghai until August 2008. During his twenty-six year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, he was previously Director of Asian Affairs in the National Security Council, and also served in Manila, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing and Chengdu, and at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. A graduate of Cornell University, he also holds MAs from Yale University and the National War College, and studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center at Nanjing University in 1989. Prior to working for the U.S. government, he was an English teacher at the Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute from 1979-1981.
 
Shen Dingli is Professor of International Relations at Fudan University, where he is Director of the Center for American Studies, and Executive Dean of the Institute of International Studies.  A phsycist by training, he did post-doctoral research on arms control at Princeton University from 1989-1991. His primary research areas cover non-proliferation, regional security issues, and the China-U.S. security relationship. He is organiser of the Shanghai Dialogue, a series of  unofficial consultations on nuclear arms control between China, the US, India and Pakistan, and has edited a number of books including “China and South Asian Relations in the 1990s”, and “Conservatism and American Foreign Policy.” In 1997 he was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship, and since 2002 he has taught on Chinese foreign policy at Colorado College.