The U.S.-China Relationship

Phase 2 of Just World Educational's “World After Covid” project focuses on the rapidly shifting balance between the United States and China.

Materials from the earlier phase of the "World After Covid" project can be viewed here. All the video, audio, text, and related materials from the US-China programing that we produced in the second half of 2020 can be accessed here.

On October 17, Just World Ed  released the first session of the groundbreaking “US-China public dialogue” that it has been holding in collaboration with the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University in Beijing.

This dialogue session featured a conversation that Just World Ed President Helena Cobban held with these two specialists:

• From Beijing, Ambassador He Yafei, a Senior Fellow with the Chongyang Institute who has held many high-ranking diplomatic posts including as Counsellor of the Chinese Permanent Mission to the United Nations, and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• From Washington DC, we had Dr. Michael Swaine, who recently became the first Director of the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Dr. Swaine is co-director of a multi-year crisis prevention project with Chinese partners, and he also advises the U.S. government on Asian security issues. 

On October 31, Just World Ed released the second session of its "US-China public dialogue," in collaboration with the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies. 

Just World Ed President Helena Cobban discussed economics, technology and the US-China relationship with two experts:

• From Beijing, Mr. He Weiwen, a Senior Fellow with the Chongyang Institute and Vice Chairman of the Global Alliance of SMEs.

• From here in Washington DC, Dr. Yukon Huang, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Huang was formerly the World Bank’s country director for China and, before that, director for Russia.

The conversations in this Public Dialogue are conducted in English and will be released in the US, Chinese, and global media markets in video, audio, and text formats, with subtitles as necessary for each market.

This dialogue project is also supported by the international No Cold War coalition, which will bring it broad global dissemination of our breakthrough conversations.

In the initial planning for this project, the first “dialogue” session was intended to be a wide-ranging conversation on the past 50 years of US-China relations between veteran U.S. diplomatist Amb. Chas W Freeman, Jr and the Chongyang Institute’s Executive Dean Dr. Wang Wen. However, due to Amb. Freeman’s ill-health that session had to be postponed. We will inform you when it is possible to set a new date for it.

Prior to conducting the Public Dialogue sessions, Ms. Cobban had held two public conversations with US-based specialists on the US-China relationship, both of which are made available lower on this page. They are:

• a broad-ranging conversation she held in early October with American maritime-strategy scholar Dr. Lyle Goldstein. Scroll on down to see the video of that conversation. (Or, you can listen to the audio, here.)
• a conversation she had held back in July with Amb. Freeman.

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