James Mann

on December 4, 2018

James Mann is author-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He formerly served as a Washington correspondent, foreign-affairs columnist, and Beijing Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times.

Mann has written three books about various aspects of America’s relationship with China: Beijing Jeep, About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship With China, From Nixon to Clinton, and The China Fantasy. Mann also writes about other aspects of American foreign policy, including a book about the George W. Bush administration, Rise of the Vulcans, and books about the Reagan and Obama administrations.

Mann lives in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a board member of the Wisconsin Project for Nuclear Arms Control.

James Green

on December 4, 2018

James Green, a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University, is the creator/host of the U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast and a Senior Advisor at the global consulting firm McLarty Associates. Green has worked for over two decades on U.S.-China relations for the U.S. Government and in the private sector. From 2013 to 2018, he served as the Minister Counselor for Trade Affairs (USTR) at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, where he addressed market access barriers, technology policy, and investment restrictions. In addition to his government service on National Security Council and on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, he ran the government relations department at the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and was a Senior Vice President at an international consultancy.

Green graduated from Brown University with honors and holds a Master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. He speaks proficient Mandarin (as well as passable Italian) and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Yan Xuetong

on December 3, 2018

Yan Xuetong is Dean of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University and Secretary General of the World Peace Forum.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of International Politics and serves as an adviser to several leading academic journals. A well-known academic in the Chinese foreign policy community, Yan is Vice Chairman of both the China Association of International Relations Studies and the China Association of American Studies, and is a member of the Consultation Committee of China’s Ministry of Commerce. Yan also serves on several boards, including those of the China Diplomacy Association and the China Association of Foreign Friendship.

Yan has written several books, including Analysis of China’s National Interests, winner of the 1998 China Book Prize, and Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power.

Wang Dan

on December 3, 2018

Wang Dan is a democracy advocate and the Founder of Dialogue China. He was a leader of the student-led democracy movement in 1989. Following the June 4 crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square, he was held in police custody and imprisoned off and on until the Chinese government exiled him to the United States in 1998.

Wang taught at National Chengchi University and other schools in Taiwan from 2009 to 2017. He attended Peking University and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

China Is Rising Faster

A China in the World Podcast

By Paul Haenle & Wang Jisi on December 2, 2018

Wang says that it has been primarily China’s development that has driven changes in the U.S.-China relationship going back to the Qing Dynasty. However, the U.S. still has significant influence and can play an important role in guiding China’s future trajectory. Wang argues differences in political systems and economic development models, as well as the tensions over technological innovation, are the core sources of competition in the bilateral relationship. Pushing back on Chinese claims that the U.S. is in decline, he says that China and the U.S. are both rising, but that China is rising faster. There is a longstanding debate within China over whether the state-led development model or the implementation of market reforms and free market mechanisms is responsible for the country’s rapid growth. Wang argues that the winner of this debate will influence Beijing’s willingness to implement the economic reforms laid out in the 2013 Third Plenum. He encourages the U.S. government to tone down rhetoric demonizing Beijing, while the Chinese government should consider how best to address specific U.S. concerns. Some U.S. and Chinese interests are incompatible at the moment, he says, but it is important to recognize that they will change over time and could align again.