The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Is Confrontation Inevitable?

Friday, June 2, 2017

Reuters

Speakers

Ely Ratner

Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow in China Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Anne Stevenson-Yang

Cofounder and Research Director, J Capital Research

Graham T. Allison

Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Author, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap

Presider

Evan L.R. Osnos

Staff Writer, New Yorker

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