Plenary Dialogue 1: Changing Major Powers Relationship: China’s Role in Today’s Global Order

Plenary Dialogue 1: Changing Major Powers Relationship: China’s Role in Today’s Global Order

By purchasing power parity, China is already the world’s largest economy. Its power and influence are only set to grow even more in coming decades, challenging US dominance not just in Asia but around the globe. At a time when Washington is turning away from traditional multilateralism, China is building a network of strategic partnerships across the world, taking more assertive foreign policy positions and challenging American technological leadership. What global leadership role is China shaping for itself? How is China shifting the power equation in Asia, particularly in its interactions with “frenemies” India and Japan? And how will China’s relationship with the US evolve in the remaining years of Trump and beyond?

- Suman Bery, Non-Resident Fellow, Bruegel (Brussels)
- Yafei He, Distinguished Professor, Yenching Academy of Peking University
- Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Global Institute
- Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
- Keith Richburg, Director, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong (moderator)