#GLOBSEC2020 Digital Stage: China’s Continued Rise vs America’s Relative Decline

Day 2 – Thursday, 27 August 2020, 13:30

China’s Belt and Road is far more than a series of infrastructure investments, it is a political-economic project that has far-reaching implications for a restructuring of world order around Chinese interests. It is a project that will likely span several decades into the future and bring with it immense changes to the structure of the global economy, especially as China continues to vie for primacy in global value chains. To some extent, the world must accommodate China’s desire to become a global superpower, and indeed may stand to benefit from it, but this raises important questions: To what extent is China’s Belt and Road project compatible with the existing liberal global order, and to what extent is it challenging it? What level of Chinese political and economic influence would be acceptable to the West? How has COVID19 either benefited or detracted from China’s growing influence in global politics?

Opening chat with Hon. Kevin Rudd, President, Asia Society Policy Institute, New York

Interviewed by Bradley Jardine, Schwarzman Fellow, Wilson Center, Glasgow

Speakers:
Andrew Small, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin
Bradley Jardine, Schwarzman Fellow, Wilson Center, Glasgow
Zhang Lihua, Resident Scholar, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Beijing

Led by Alena Kudzko, Director, GLOBSEC Policy Institute, Bratislava