Navigating a Way Forward on U.S.-China Relations
Washington, DC,
Relations between Washington and China have grown increasingly hostile, creating challenges for bilateral cooperation on pressing global threats such as climate change and public health. Protecting U.S. interests while developing a positive and realistic vision for future coexistence will be a vital task for the next administration.
The American Statecraft Program will host a special event with Senator Chris Van Hollen and Carnegie’s President Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar examining the near-term strategic options the next president will face and launching a major new Carnegie Endowment compendium that sketches a path forward to improved relations with China in 2035. A discussion among the authors of the volume will follow, focusing on what stable coexistence between the United States and China might look like.
This event will be hosted in person and streamed live on YouTube.
Fireside Chat
Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen is a U.S. Senator for the State of Maryland, first elected to the Senate in 2016 and re-elected for a second term in 2022. Among his committee assignments, he is a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, where he also serves as chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy. In this capacity, the Senator focuses on policy matters concerning U.S. relations with the countries of East Asia and the Pacific as well as regional intergovernmental organizations like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and the Pacific Islands Forum.
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar is the tenth president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A former justice of the Supreme Court of California, he has served three U.S. presidential administrations at the White House and in federal agencies, and was the Stanley Morrison Professor at Stanford University, where he held appointments in law, political science, and international affairs and led the university’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Panel Discussion
Christopher S. Chivvis
Christopher S. Chivvis is the director of the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
John K. Culver
John K. Culver is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior intelligence officer with thirty-five years of experience as a leading analyst of East Asian affairs, including security, economic, and foreign-policy dimensions.
Evan S. Medeiros
Evan S. Medeiros is a nonresident senior fellow in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
George Perkovich
George Perkovich is the Japan chair for a world without nuclear weapons and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, overseeing the Nuclear Policy Program and the Technology and International Affairs Program. He works primarily on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation issues, and security dilemmas among the United States, its allies, and their nuclear-armed adversaries.
Stephen Wertheim
Stephen Wertheim is a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Audrye Wong
Audrye Wong is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she is focusing on China’s foreign policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, economic statecraft, and how authoritarian states use informational tools to alter public discourse and shape political processes in democracies—what she calls “informational statecraft.”
