'Trump, China and the Region: Where to from here?' One day symposium
Hosted by the Centre for Strategic Studies and the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre
Date: Thursday 4 May, 2017, 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University of Wellington
This one-day symposium brings together a group of leading international and local scholars to consider and debate what the Trump Administration’s policies might mean for the future of US-China relations and for the security and prosperity of the wider region, including New Zealand.
The election of President Donald J. Trump and the consolidation of President Xi Jinping’s leadership in China have raised fundamental questions about the future of US-China relations and the shape of the economic and security order in the Asia-Pacific region.
This one-day symposium brings together a group of leading international and local scholars to consider and debate what the Trump Administration’s policies might mean for the future of US-China relations and for the security and prosperity of the wider region, including New Zealand.
Speakers include:
- H.E. Bilahari Kausikan, Ambassador-at-Large, Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Jamil Anderlini, Asia Editor, Financial Times
- Amy Searight, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington D.C.*
- WANG Dong, School of International Studies, Peking University.
- Bates Gill, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University.
- Ian Storey, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
- SHAO Yuqun, Center for American Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.
- Toshihiro Nakayama, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University.
- Natasha Hamilton-Hart, New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland.
- Robert Ayson, Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
- Brendan Taylor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University.
Registration (includes refreshments and lunch): $65/$40 students & unwaged