The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power

Daniel Blumenthal

Director, Asian Studies

American Enterprise Institute 

Michael Swaine

Senior Associate, Asia Program

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 

Deputy Director, Freeman Chair in China Studies

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Is China’s rise a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond? Thomas Christensen argues against this zero-sum vision. Instead, he describes a new paradigm in which the real challenge lies in dissuading China from regional aggression while encouraging the country to contribute to the global order. If China obstructs international efforts to confront nuclear proliferation, civil conflicts, financial instability, and climate change, those efforts will falter, but even if China merely declines to support such efforts, the problems will grow vastly more complicated. Drawing on decades of scholarship and experience as a senior diplomat, Christensen offers a new assessment of global governance and U.S.-China relations. Please join us for what promises to be a rich discussion featuring author Thomas Christensen, and commentators Daniel Blumenthal from the American Enterprise Institute and Michael Swaine from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.