(Screenshot of the Online Dialogue on Zoom)

Since late 2019, the COVID-19 crisis has added a new level of complexity to an already tense China-U.S. relationship. Progress on key trade, financial, and security issues has been halting or non-existent.

An online dialogue on April 16th, 2020 brought together four leading U.S. and Chinese experts to address three key issues: 1) the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on China-U.S. relations so far; 2) the prospects for improved relations between now and the U.S. presidential election in November; and 3) the longer-term implications of the crisis for the bilateral relationship and the geopolitics of Asia.

The webinar series featured Wang Jisi (President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at Peking University in China where he also serves as a professor in the School of International Studies), Wu Xinbo (Professor, Dean of the Institute of International Studies and Director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, Member of the Policy Advisory Board, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China), Michael Green (Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Director of the Asian Studies Program in the School of Foreign Service) and Evan Medeiros (Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies at the School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow with the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University) for in-depth analyses and profound insights into The Future of China-U.S. Relations: Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Crisis.