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China’s Challenge and America’s Response
February 6, 2024 at 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Fei-Ling Wang will discuss his new book The China Race: Global Competition for Alternative World Orders, which analyzes the global competition for power and leadership between the US-led West and the People’s Republic of China. Examining the nature, aims, means, accomplishments, pitfalls and failures of Beijing’s foreign policy and the state of and developments in Sinology and the West’s China policy, this book focuses on the existential PRC-USA rivalry and propose a holistic strategic framework, with three ranked objectives and a list of suggested shortcuts, for the West and the world, including the Chinese people, to manage, benefit from, and prevail in the China Race.
Peter Harrell will discuss his recent article in Foreign Affairs in which he argues that rather than pursuing economic policies intended to change China, the United States should accept that the Xi regime will not change. Instead, it should actively manage the economic relationship with China in ways that can advance specific U.S. interests and respond to evolving geopolitical demands. In doing so, the U.S. should develop a more effective economic strategy toward its close allies and other partners. If it does so, he contends that the United States is well positioned to maintain its edge in leading economic domains.
Fei-Ling Wang, Professor, Nunn School of International Affairs and author of The China Race: Global Competition for Alternative World Orders (SUNY Press, 2024).
Philip Fei-Ling Wang, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), professor at Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology (fw@gatech.edu). His research interests are comparative and international political economy, U.S.-East Asian relations, and East Asia and China studies. He has published eight books (two co-edited) in two languages including Organization through Division and Exclusion: China’s Hukou System (Stanford University Press. 2005), The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power (SUNY Press, 2017), and The China Record: An Assessment of the People’s Republic (SUNY Press, 2023). He has also published dozens of book chapters and journal articles in four languages.
He taught at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) and U.S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs), and held visiting and adjunct/honorary positions in institutions like European University Institute in Italy, Sciences Po in France, National Sun Yat-sen University and National Taiwan University in Taiwan, National University of Singapore, Renmin University and Anhui Normal University in China, University of Macau, University of Tokyo, and Sungkyunkwan University and Yonsei University in Korea. He has guest-lectured in over 50 universities worldwide and appeared in many national and international news media such as Al Jazeera, AFP, AP, BBC, CNN, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Radio China International, South China Morning Post,VOA, The Wall Street Journal, and the Xinhua News Agency. He has had numerous research grants including a Minerva Chair grant, a Fulbright Senior Scholar grant and a Hitachi Fellowship. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Peter Harrel, Senior Director for International Economics and Competitiveness in the National Security Council. From 2012 to 2014, he served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions.
Peter Harrel, Nonresident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; former Senior Director for International Economics and Competitiveness at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council (2021 to 2022); and author of “How to China-Proof the Global Economy,” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2024.