Global China Forum

The Council on Foreign Relations’ China Strategy Initiative has partnered with the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy’s 21st Century China Center to launch an annual two-day Washington China Forum and Washington Symposium on China Policy Research each winter.

The Washington China Forum brings together over 120 policy experts at a pivotal moment in U.S.-China relations, offering the opportunity for candid, bipartisan dialogue on the critical questions shaping U.S. strategy toward China. Participants discuss the complexities of trade, technology, security, and diplomacy with an eye toward crafting informed, enduring, and effective policies.

The Washington Symposium on China Policy Research is a first-of-its-kind national “state of the field” meeting designed to bring together two-dozen individuals leading major China programs at think tanks and university research centers across the country and political spectrum. The Symposium focuses on the national agenda for American China policy research.

The Council on Foreign Relations’ China Strategy Initiative launched Endless Frontiers in partnership with Baylor University, Rice University, Texas A&M University, and University of Texas at Austin to address a critical question: how can the United States rebuild the foundations of American strength at a time of technological transformation and geopolitical competition, particularly with China?

Endless Frontiers’ name is an homage to Vannevar Bush, the legendary science advisor to both U.S. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. His 1945 treatise Science—the Endless Frontier recognized that neither the government nor private companies possessed the incentives, resources, scale, or coordination required to achieve major scientific and technological breakthroughs on their own, especially in basic research.

The convening is dedicated to Admiral Bobby Inman, a pioneer of defense and intelligence technology who helmed the National Security Agency and served as deputy director of the CIA. Participants included a bipartisan list of current and former White House officials, prominent members of Congress, former secretaries of defense, CIA directors, NASA administrators, award-winning scientists, leading entrepreneurs, and top investors.