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Navigating Turbulent Times:
U.S.-China Relations in the Next Four Years
The Center for American Studies at Fudan University is pleased to join The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation USA Foundation (CAPRI USA) to host this forum in Shanghai.
Date and Time
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (China Standard Time)
Location
Conference Room 104, Center for American Studies, Fudan University
No. 680 Guoquan Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai
About the Forum
Since the U.S. presidential election in November 2024, U.S.-China relations face increasingly complex and multifaceted challenges. Are the two nations heading toward greater turbulence? How can leaders in Washington and Beijing maintain resilience and stability in their bilateral relationship?
The forum is divided into two panels. The first panel will explore domestic drivers of foreign policymaking in the U.S. and China, and the lessons learned from the past eight years. The second panel will address the evolving foreign policy priorities of both countries, evaluating prospects for continuity and change in the relationship in the years ahead.
Presentations and discussions will be in English. Simultaneous interpretation will not be provided.
Registration
Scan below QR code or click "Read more" at end of this article to register. Registration before January 6 at 5:00 p.m. is required.
This event is open to the Fudan University community, invited local media, and University of Virginia students, alumni, families, and friends. The event will be recorded. Parts or all the event recordings may be published with the consent of all hosts.
Agenda
Welcome Remarks
Wu Xinbo, Dean, Institute of International Studies; Director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University
A Chinese perspective on Trump’s reelection: What it means for the U.S.
Opening Remarks
William J. Antholis (online), Director & CEO, Miller Center, University of Virginia
Prospects for U.S. foreign policy under the second Trump Administration
Panel I: Domestic Drivers of the U.S.-China Relationship: Issues and Prospects
Moderator: Syaru Shirley Lin, Research Professor, Miller Center, University of Virginia; President, Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation USA Foundation
Scott C. Miller, Director, Project on Democracy and Capitalism, Miller Center, University of Virginia
Domestic drivers of US policy toward China
Wei Zongyou, Professor, Center for American Studies, Fudan University
Domestic drivers of Chinese policy toward the U.S.
Margaret Foster Riley, Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor, Miller Center, University of Virginia; Member of the Board, Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation USA Foundation
Lessons learned from the Trump and Biden administrations
Pan Yaling, Adjunct Professor, Center for American Studies, Fudan University
Potentials for cultural and educational exchange
Panel II: Prospects for U.S.-China Relations
Moderator: Xin Qiang, Professor and Deputy Director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University
Harry Harding, Faculty Senior Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia
Wu Xinbo, Dean, Institute of International Studies; Director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University
Mara Rudman, James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor, Miller Center, University of Virginia
Song Guoyou, Deputy Director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University
Speakers
Arranged by speaking order
Wu Xinbo
Wu Xinbo is a specialist on Sino-U.S. relations. He is a professor and dean of the Institute of International Studies and director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University, president of the Shanghai Institute of American Studies, and a member of the Fourth Foreign Policy Advisory Group of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is on the editorial board of The Washington Quarterly and European Journal of International Security and on the International Advisory Board of International Affairs.
William J. Antholis
William J. Antholis is director and CEO of the Miller Center. Before that he served as managing director at The Brookings Institution from 2004 to 2014. He has also served in government, including on the White House National Security Council and National Economic Council as director of international economic affairs during the Clinton Administration, and in the State Department, including as director of the Office of Policy Analysis in the Bureau of Economic Affairs.
Syaru Shirley Lin
Syaru Shirley Lin is a research professor in the Department of Politics and the Miller Center and is a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. She is also president of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation USA Foundation (CAPRI USA). She previously led investment efforts in Asia for Goldman Sachs, managing private equity and venture capital investments in 12 countries and setting up its Tokyo operation.
Scott C. Miller
Scott C. Miller is an economic historian at the Darden School of Business and the Miller Center. He is an assistant professor and director of the Project on Democracy and Capitalism at the Miller Center and a research assistant professor, by courtesy appointment, at the Darden School of Business. He studies financial and economic crises, U.S. economic development, and free markets around the world.
Wei Zongyou
Wei Zongyou is a professor at the Center for American Studies at Fudan University. He previously served as vice dean of the Institute of International and Diplomatic Affairs at Shanghai International Studies University. In 2008-2009, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His research interests cover American security and foreign policy, American domestic politics, Sino-U.S. relations, and global governance.
Margaret Foster Riley
Margaret Foster Riley is a professor of law at the School of Law, professor of public health sciences at the School of Medicine, professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and the Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor at the Miller Center, where she directs the Animal Law Program. She is chair of UVA’s Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee, and she served on four National Academies of Science committees.
Pan Yaling
Pan Yaling is an adjunct professor in the Cetner for American Studies at Fudan University. She specializes in American politics and society, U.S. foreign and security policy, and international relations theory.
Xin Qiang
Xin Qiang is a professor and deputy director of the Center for American Studies and founding director of the Center for Taiwan Studies at Fudan University. He teaches and studies the Taiwan issue, China-U.S. relations, and maritime security issues. He pursued one-year visiting scholarships at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and American University, and he worked in the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress from November 2001 to May 2002.
Harry Harding
Harry Harding is a specialist on Asia and U.S.-Asia relations. He is a faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center and university professor emeritus and professor emeritus of public policy at UVA, where he served as the founding dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy between 2009 and 2014. He has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Mara Rudman
Mara Rudman is the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center, where she directs the Ripples of Hope Project. She served as deputy envoy and chief of staff for the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, U.S. Department of State, and was appointed to the 2022 National Defense Strategy Commission. She also served as deputy assistant to the President for national security affairs in both the Obama and Clinton administrations.
Song Guoyou
Song Guoyou is a professor and deputy director of the Center for American Studies, executive director of the Asia-Pacific Cooperation and Governance Research Center, and director of the Economic Diplomacy Studies Center at Fudan University. He also serves on the Ministry of Commerce’s advisory committee, and he is vice president of the National Economic Diplomacy Research Association and a senior research fellow at the Ministry of Finance’s International Economics and Finance Institute.
