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Six months after Biden has assumed the presidency, US attitudes toward China are becoming increasingly clear. Many of the sharper elements of the relationship are here to stay but there also exist spaces for cooperation and competition. In his new book, Ryan Hass argues that the US should redefine its relationship with China. The US should take care not to overestimate China, since "concentrating on China's strengths without accounting for its vulnerabilities creates anxiety. Anxiety breeds insecurity. Insecurity leads to overreaction, and overreaction produces bad decisions."


Instead, according to Mr. Hass, the US should be clear-eyed that it remains the stronger of the two countries, and focus on nurturing its own strengths while fostering a relationship Mr. Hass defines as "competitive interdependence." Is this a fair characterization of the relationship? Where do American companies fit into this new paradigm?


AmCham Shanghai is pleased to welcome a webinar panel of China experts to discuss Washington's evolving China policy. First Ryan Hass, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, will introduce his new book, Stronger: Adapting America's China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence. Afterward, Ryan will join a panel with Bonnie S. Glaser, Director, Asia Program at The German Marshall Fund, and Kenneth Jarrett, Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group. This session is off the record and will not be recorded.

Agenda

8:00 AM - 8:05 AM
AmCham Shanghai Introduction
8:05 AM - 8:20 AM
Presentation: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence
8:20 AM - 9:20 AM
Panel: The Biden Administration's China Strategy

Speakers

  • Ryan Hass (Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution)

    Ryan Hass

    Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution

    Ryan Hass is a senior fellow and the Michael H. Armacost Chair in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, where he holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. He is also the Interim Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies. He was part of the inaugural class of David M. Rubenstein fellows at Brookings, and is a nonresident affiliated fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Hass focuses his research and analysis on enhancing policy development on the pressing political, economic, and security challenges facing the United States in East Asia.

    From 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC) staff. In that role, he advised President Obama and senior White House officials on all aspects of U.S. policy toward China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and coordinated the implementation of U.S. policy toward this region among U.S. government departments and agencies. He joined President Obama’s state visit delegations in Beijing and Washington respectively in 2014 and 2015, and the president’s delegation to Hangzhou, China, for the G-20 in 2016, and to Lima, Peru, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meetings in 2016.

    Prior to joining NSC, Hass served as a Foreign Service Officer in U.S. Embassy Beijing, where he earned the State Department Director General’s award for impact and originality in reporting, an award given annually to the officer whose reporting had the greatest impact on the formulation of U.S. foreign policy. Hass also served in Embassy Seoul and Embassy Ulaanbaatar, and domestically in the State Department Offices of Taiwan Coordination and Korean Affairs. Hass received multiple Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor commendations during his 15-year tenure in the Foreign Service.

    Hass was born and raised in Washington state. He graduated from the University of Washington and attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies prior to joining the State Department.

    Affiliations:
    Council on Foreign Relations, term member
    McLarty Associates, senior advisor
    National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, member
    The Scowcroft Group, senior advisor
    Yale Law School, Paul Tsai China Center, nonresident affiliated fellow

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  • Bonnie Glaser (Director, Asia Program of German Marshall Fund of the United States)

    Bonnie Glaser

    Director, Asia Program of German Marshall Fund of the United States

    Bonnie S. Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Glaser is concomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. For more than three decades, Ms. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. From 2008 to mid-2015, she was a senior adviser with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, and from 2003 to 2008, she was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State. Ms. Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals, including the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, International Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia, American Foreign Policy Interests, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, as well as in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and International Herald Tribune and in various edited volumes on Asian security. She is also a regular contributor to the Pacific Forum web journal Comparative Connections. She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She served as a member of the Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board China Panel in 1997. Ms. Glaser received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

    Bonnie Glaser has published the following recent publications, including Time for Collective Pushback against China’s Economic Coercion via CSIS, China’s Provocations Around Taiwan Aren’t a Crisis via Foreign Policy, Opinion: Don't Help China By Hyping Risk Of War Over Taiwan via NPR, Toward a Stronger U.S.-Taiwan Relationship via CSIS, We Stand with MERICS via CSIS, Protecting Democracy in an Age of Disinformation: Lessons from Taiwan via CSIS, and Neither China Nor the U.S. Wants a Hot War. Dialogue Can Help Separate Fact From Fiction via South China Morning Post.

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  • Kenneth Jarrett (Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group)

    Kenneth Jarrett

    Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group

    Kenneth Jarrett, based in Shanghai, is a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group, where he draws on decades of business and diplomatic experience in China and across East Asia to provide perspective and advice to businesses, investors, and other organizations with interest in the region.

    Most recently, Mr. Jarrett spent five years as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. Under his leadership, the Chamber helped hundreds of companies establish and grow their networks in China and navigate operational and regulatory challenges.

    Previously, Mr. Jarrett was a distinguished diplomat whose positions included service as Consul General in Shanghai, and as Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong. His 26-year foreign service career also included postings in Beijing, Chengdu, and Singapore. His government roles in Washington, D.C, included serving as Director of Asian Affairs at the White House National Security Council. Following his government service, Mr. Jarrett served as Chairman of Greater China for APCO Worldwide.

    Mr. Jarrett is a frequent commentator on the business environment in China, and he has been quoted in outlets including Bloomberg, the Economist, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, among others.

    He is the recipient of the Magnolia Award (Silver) from the Shanghai government and is a member of the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations.

    Mr. Jarrett earned an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University and an M.A. in National Security Studies from the National War College. He received a B.A. in History from Cornell University. He speaks Mandarin Chinese.

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