US-China Seminars
In October 2021, the Phelan United States Centre launched a new multi-year seminar series on US-China relations to explore the current state and future of relations between China and the US in the 21st century. Seminars focus on three broad themes: ‘geopolitics and strategic competition,’ ‘global supply chains, MNE’s, and trade politics,’ and ‘technological innovation and domestic institutions.’
Series co-chairs: David Soskice (LSE Department of Government) and Peter Trubowitz
These seminars are invitation only and discussion is conducted under the Chatham House Rule.
EU-China relations in the Trump era
Speaker Noah Barkin (Rhodium Group)
Date 24 March 2025
China Under siege: how Beijing has changed its perception and responses to the United States
Speaker Yu Jie (Chatham House)
Date 3 March 2026
China’s Three Personality Problem
Speaker Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Date 18 November 2025
US-China Relations in an Era of Illiberalism
Speaker Scott Kennedy (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Date 30 October 2025
Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny’
Speaker Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth College)
Date 14 October 2025
The Origins of the U.S.-China Chip War
Speaker John Minnich (LSE Department of International Relations)
Date 25 March 2025
US-China strategic stability: prospects and challenges
Speaker Nicola Leveringhaus (King’s College London)
Date 4 March 2025
Escalation or stabilization: US-China relations under a new administration in Washington?
Speaker Minxin Pei (Claremont McKenna College）
Date 6 February 2025
From unilateral failure to multilateral success? The evolution of American chip controls on China
Speaker Douglas Fuller (Copenhagen Business School）
Date 3 December 2024
Hard then, harder now: why technology export controls against China are unlikely to succeed
Speaker
Jennifer Lind and Michael Mastanduno (Dartmouth College)
Date
29 October 2024
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China's evolving approach to economic security
Speaker Yeling Tan (Oxford University)
Date 8 October 2024
The Politics and Poetics of AI in the Age of Geopolitical Confrontation
SpeakerBingchun Meng (LSE Department of Media and Communications)
Date12 March 2024
China Policy: The Limits of Transatlantic Convergence
Speaker Mathieu Duchâtel (Institut Montaigne)
Date13 February 2024
The Future of US-China Competition: Risks without Rewards?
Speaker Ashley Tellis (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Date 16 January 2024
The New China Playbook
Speaker
Keyu Jin (LSE Department of Economics)
Date 21 November 2023
The Bipolar Illusion: Why China Hawks are Wrong
Speaker
William Wohlforth (Dartmouth University)
Date 7 November 2023
US and China:
Reviving Cooperation on Climate Change
Speaker
Lord Nicholas Stern (LSE Department of Economics)
Date
3 October 2023
US-China Relations: What Went Wrong and What Could Go Right
Speaker
Yasheng Huang (MIT Sloan School of Management)
Date
28 March 2023
Towards Greater Transatlantic Coordination on China
Speaker
Agatha Kratz (Rhodium Group)
Date
7 March 2023
Brave New World:
Recalibrating risk and its implications for China-Africa relations
Speaker
Chris Alden (LSE Department of International Relations)
Date
28 February 2023
Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise
Speaker
Susan Shirk (University of California, San Diego)
Date
17 January 2023
China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Speaker Taylor Fravel (MIT)
Date 22 November 2022
A World Safe for Autocracy? China and the Future of the International Order
Speaker: Jessica Chen Weiss (Cornell University)
Date 8 November 2022
Has American Engagement with China Failed?
Speaker Yuhua Wang (Harvard University)
Date 11 October 2022
History and revisionism: when historical analogy works in US-China relations and when it doesn't
Speaker Rana Mitter (Oxford University)
Date 28 September 2022
How much does openness matter to Chinese technological success?
Speaker Torben Iversen (Harvard University)
Date 18 May 2022
Getting China Wrong
Speaker Aaron Friedberg (Princeton University)
Date 9 March 2022
A Clash of Two Gilded Ages
Speaker Yuen Yuen Ang (University of Michigan)
Date 16 February 2022
The uses and abuses of human rights in America's China policy
Speaker Rosemary Foot (Oxford University)
Date 19 January 2022
China-US competition in the digital age
Speaker Yan Xuetong (Tsinghua University)
Date 10 November 2021
Are the US and China headed for Cold War?
Speaker Tom Christensen (Columbia University)
Date 13 October 2021
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