The Future of US-China Relations Under Biden and Xi

How did the US policy on China change during the Trump administration? How did Trump’s policies impact China? What position is China in now? And what will be the Biden administration’s stance on multilateralism?

On November 30, 2020, the Global Governance Futures community participated in an online discussion, “The Future of US-China Relations Under Biden and Xi.” The discussion focused on the future trajectories of US-China relations and there consequences for the two countries, the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. The participants engaged with speakers from the GGF 2020 cohort: Bruce Au and Scott Moore. Vincent Ni (GGF 2027) moderated the discussion.

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Bruce is a senior manager at The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. In this role, he supports the management in making an annual donation of HKD 4 billion to the local community. Bruce has an MPA in international development from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Scott is a political scientist whose interests center on environmental sustainability, technology, and international relations. His first book, Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins (Oxford University Press, 2018), examines how climate change and other pressures affect the likelihood of conflict over water within countries. At Penn, Scott is Director of the Penn Global China Program.

Vincent is a senior journalist at the BBC in London. Over the past decade, he has reported from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. He regularly appears on the BBC's domestic and international TV, radio and digital platforms as a China analyst. He has lectured at Yale, London School of Economics, as well as Yale-NUS in Singapore and was a fellow with Yale University’s Maurice Greenberg World Fellows program.