National security and foreign policy leaders see opportunities for cooperation and competition between the two global superpowers in the 21st century
Contact: Jon Purves
Senior Media Relations Manager
The Aspen Institute
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Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020 – The Aspen Strategy Group (ASG), a program of the Aspen Institute, today published a report titled “The Struggle for Power: U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century.” This volume offers a broad range of proposals for the U.S. to adapt and respond to China’s rapid ascent to global power.
“As one of the nation’s preeminent nonpartisan forums focused on U.S. foreign policy and national security, the Aspen Strategy Group dedicated our last meeting to examining one of the most important challenges of our time—the increasingly troubled relationship between the U.S. and China,” said Nicholas Burns, Executive Director of the Aspen Strategy Group. “Our latest book investigates the major fault lines between the two countries including: trade disputes, the military rivalry in the Indo-Pacific, the race for technological supremacy in the digital age, and our battle of ideas between a democratic America and authoritarian China. Our impressive list of authors offers concrete policy recommendations to address the China challenge head-on.”
This ASG report is comprised of papers commissioned for the 2019 Aspen Strategy Group Summer meeting, a nonpartisan meeting of senior national security professionals, China experts, journalists, academics, and private sector leaders representing the top experts in their fields. The foreword is by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and Condoleezza Rice, and the preface is written by Nicholas Burns.
The report will be launched at an event at the headquarters of the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C., with panelists including Condoleezza Rice, Nicholas Burns, Kathleen Hicks, Anja Manuel, Kurt Campbell, and Mike Pillsbury. Watch the livestream here on Friday, January 24 from 12:00pm-2:00pm ET.
In addition to the preface and foreword, the ASG report contains the following commissioned papers and contributors:
- Ernest May Lecture – U.S.-China Relations at a Crossroad: Can History Guide the Path Forward?
James B. Steinberg - The Trump Administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Michael Pillsbury - Reimagining Engagement
Elizabeth Economy - Toward a New China Debate: The Strategic Logic of Blunting China’s Illiberal Order
Ely Ratner - The Case for Allies: Coordinating a Response to China
Shivshankar Menon - How Asia Navigates the U.S.-China Rivalry
Kurt Campbell - The U.S.-China Strategic Competition: Clues from History
Graham Allison - Campaigning through China’s Gray Zone Tactics
Kathleen H. Hicks and Joseph P. Federici - From Primacy to Openness: U.S. Strategic Objectives in Asia
Mira Rapp-Hooper - Managing the Fifth Generation: America, China, and the Struggle for Technological Dominance
David E. Sanger - Compete, Contest, and Collaborate: How to Win the Technology Race with China
Anja Manuel and Pavneet Singh - The Rise of China
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. - Toward a “Smart Competition” Strategy for U.S. China Policy
David Shambaugh - U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China: Seventeen Policy Prescriptions
Robert D. Blackwill
“The Struggle for Power: U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century” can be read online on our homepage. To request a copy of the book, members of the media should contact Jon Purves: Jon.Purves@aspeninstitute.org
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