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The US-China relationship has seen firmer ground. Trade, technology, and national security concerns have sharply escalated in recent months, but on January 2020 at noon the US will have a new president. What will President Joe Biden's priorities toward China be? How will a new administration address longstanding issues in the bilateral relationship? It is critical for companies making long-term plans for the China market to understand the American government's near-term intentions.


AmCham Shanghai welcomes Ryan Hass, The Michael H. Armacost Chair and Foreign Policy Fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center, for a discussion on the new administration's China policy. Ryan will outline what he expects the new administration's priorities will be and what this will mean for companies.

Speakers

  • Ryan Hass (The Michael H. Armacost Chair; Foreign Policy Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution)

    Ryan Hass

    The Michael H. Armacost Chair; Foreign Policy Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution

    Ryan Hass is a 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 theโ€ฏimplementation of U.S. policy toward this regionโ€ฏamong 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 Officerโ€ฏin 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.โ€ฏHass 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.โ€ฏHe 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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