Joining host Jim Falk are Susan Shirk, Ph.D., research professor and chair of the 21st Century China Center, UCSD, author of Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise, and David Firestein, President and CEO, The George HW Bush Foundation for Us-China Relations. The focus: our strained relations with China and China's aggressive foreign policy.
Since this program first aired in April of this year, China has had many challenges and issues, severe economic problems, youth unemployment at record highs, a troubling estate slump, and the list goes on.
Join us to learn more about our challenges with China.
China continues to cause consternation to the U.S. Our relations with China appear to be at long time low. In his recent confirmation hearings for Director of the CIA, William Burns said, “The adversarial Chinese leadership poses our biggest political threat.” They are also the third-largest trading partner the U.S. has and the second-largest economy in the world and the most formidable competition that the U.S. has. Bringing some new perspectives on this growing concern is David J. Firestein, the inaugural president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations (Bush China Foundation).
While their parents, the one-child policy generation, instituted in the 1980s and 1990s, which produced a generation of “only me” children, accepted the government mandates in every area of their lives, the restless generation does not. They are increasingly consumer-oriented, questioning government dictates, and expanding their world.
There is no doubt that the pandemic has caused our relations with China to plummet and accelerated the competition between us. They are also the third-largest trading partner the U.S. has and the second-largest economy in the world and the most formidable competition that the U.S. has. Bringing some new perspectives on this growing concern is David J. Firestein, the inaugural president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations (Bush China Foundation).
Relations between China and the U.S. are at an all-time low, in part because of the actions China has taken toward Beijing and the U.S.' commitment to Taiwan.
Will China and the United States avoid war? Join our experts to hear their very divergent points of view and why the history of China "should" at the very least make us vigilant about the future.
Today, China is asserting itself militarily in that area by building islands and shoring up their Navy.
Our experts give a unique political, social and economic outlook on the situation in China today and what must be done so it maintains its status as a world power.
