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May

13
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Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

7:00 am - 8:30 am CST

Brookings-Tsinghua Center, School of Public Policy and Management
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Tsinghua University
Beijing

Content from the Brookings-Tsinghua Public Policy Center is now archived. Since October 1, 2020, Brookings has maintained a limited partnership with Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management that is intended to facilitate jointly organized dialogues, meetings, and/or events.

On May 12, the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy hosted a public lecture featuring Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

After forty years of largely cooperative Sino-U.S. relations, policymakers, politicians, and pundits on both sides of the Pacific see growing tensions between the United States and China. Some go so far as to predict a future of conflict, driven by the inevitable rivalry between an established and a rising power, and urge their leaders to prepare now for a future showdown. Others argue that the deep economic interdependence between the two countries and the many areas of shared interests will lead to more collaborative relations in the coming decades.

In this lecture, O’Hanlon introduced a proposal of a policy called “strategic reassurance” between China and the United States, an overarching approach to steer their inherently competitive relationship in a mutually acceptable direction, such that fundamental interests are protected and peace sustained. O’Hanlon’s major arguments are included in the newly published book, Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2014), co-authored with Jim Steinberg.

Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow with the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and director of research for the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American foreign policy. He is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Michael O'Hanlon speaks at the Brookings-Tsinghua Center

Qi Ye moderates the talk

Michael O'Hanlon speaks at the Brookings-Tsinghua Center

Jia Qingguo makes comment

Chu Shulong makes comment

Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century

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