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ICAS 2021 Annual Conference

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The first year of the Biden administration has in many ways seen more questions arise than have been answered in the increasingly fluid developments of the U.S.-China relationship. With 2022 on the horizon, many wait to see what is in store for the 'new normal' of the bilateral relationship.

Will Biden's National Security Strategy and Indo-Pacific policy be just as hard-hitting as the Trump administration’s strategy document and policies were? Will military and maritime competition continue inexorably on a more-or-less zero-sum path? With an important Party Congress beckoning in Fall 2022, what are President Xi’s bilateral relationship-related priorities? Will the two sides close out the next year with the promise of greater stabilization and cooperation in ties? Or will 2022 end with an even sourer taste in the mouth of both parties as they jostle for geopolitical advantage at each twist and turn?

In a welcome break with the previous administration’s approach though, a positive framework to Build Back Better has also been set in motion. Given that economics, trade and investment had been the essential foundation on which four decades of U.S.-China ties rested - that is, until President Trump attempted to tear this foundation down, what should one expect on the bilateral trade, S&T, and investment front in 2022? For quite some time now, President Xi has signaled China’s will to embrace difficult structural reforms, including of its state-owned enterprises and industrial subsidies regime. Will China follow through with these difficult reforms in 2022, either at the behest of the Biden administration or to instill confidence in its CPTPP candidature?

This event will feature two discussion panels and a keynote dialogue between Xu Xueyuan (Deputy Chief of Mission & Minister, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China) and Susan Thornton (Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School). Learn more at https://chinaus-icas.org/event/2021-annual-conference/

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Dec 9, 2021 09:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Dec 9, 2021 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: ICAS 2021 Annual Conference Register in advance for this webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OLdi16L-Tn2ArWmXametpg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Xu Xueyuan (Deputy Chief of Mission & Minister @Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States) Xu Xueyuan is Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America. Prior to this assignment, she was deputy director-general at the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing from 2015 to 2018 and served as a counselor for political affairs at the Embassy in Washington, D.C. from 2011 to 2015. From 1996 to 1998, and again from 2001 to 2010, she worked in the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was also posted to the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago from 1998 to 2001. Minister Xu is from Zhejiang province and graduated from Fudan University. Susan Thornton (Senior Fellow @Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School) Susan A. Thornton is a retired senior U.S. diplomat with almost 30 years of experience with the U.S. State Department in Eurasia and East Asia. Until July 2018, Thornton was acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State and led East Asia policymaking amid crises with North Korea, escalating trade tensions with China, and a fast-changing international environment. In previous State Department roles, she worked on U.S. policy toward China, Korea, and the former Soviet Union and served in leadership positions at U.S. embassies in Central Asia, Russia, the Caucasus, and China. Thornton received her master's in international relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and her bachelor's from Bowdoin College in economics and Russian. She serves on several non-profit boards and speaks Mandarin and Russian. Gordon Houlden (Director Emeritus @China Institute, University of Alberta) Professor Gordon Houlden joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1976, serving in Ottawa and abroad. Twenty-two of his thirty-two years in the Canadian Foreign Service were spent working on Chinese economic, trade and political affairs for the Government of Canada including five postings in China. He also served at the Canadian Embassy in Havana and Warsaw, and at Canada National Defence College. His last assignment before joining the University of Alberta in 2008 was as Director General of the East Asian Bureau of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, responsible for Greater China, Japan, the Koreas and Mongolia. Under Professor Houlden’s leadership, the China Institute focused on contemporary China studies, with an emphasis on Canada’s trade, investment and bilateral relations with the PRC, and Asian security issues. His third co-edited book on the South China Sea was published in the summer of 2021 by Bristol University Press. Wu Shicun (Founding President @National Institute for South China Sea Studies) Dr. Wu Shicun serves as Chair of the Advisory Board at the Institute for China-America Studies. He is also founding president, director of academic committee and senior research fellow at China’s National Institute for South China Sea Studies, chairman of board of directors of the China-Southeast Asia Research Center on the South China Sea, vice president of the China Institute for Free Trade Ports Studies, and adjunct professor of Nanjing University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Wu has a PhD in history. His research interests cover the history and geography of the South China Sea, maritime delimitation, maritime economy, international relations and regional security strategy.

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