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Trump, China and the Region: Where to from here?

Date: Thursday, 4 May, 2017

Venue: Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University of Wellington

Hosted by the Centre for Strategic Studies and the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre

The election of President Donald J. Trump and the consolidation of President Xi Jinping’s leadership in China have raised fundamental questions about the future of US-China relations and the shape of the economic and security order in the Asia-Pacific region. This one-day symposium brings together a group of leading international and local scholars to consider and debate what the Trump Administration’s policies might mean for the future of US-China relations and for the security and prosperity of the wider region, including New Zealand.

Programme schedule

The Symposium will start with a keynote speech by H.E. Bilahari Kausikan, Ambassador-at-Large, Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs, followed by 3 panel discussions.

Panel 1

Conflict or Cooperation? The Shape of US-China Relations in a New Era

Panel 2

East Asia’s Economic and Security Order: where to from here?

Panel 3

Southern Exposure? Implications for New Zealand and Australia

Jamil Anderlini, Asia Editor, Financial Times, will provide concluding remarks following Panel 3.

A more detailed programme is available here.

Key speakers

Keynote

Panel 1: Conflict or Cooperation? The Shape of US-China Relations in a New Era

  • Chair: Peter Harris, Senior Fellow, New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre
  • Merriden Varrall, Director, East Asia Program, Lowy Institute for International Policy
  • Wang Dong, Associate Professor, School of International Studies and Executive Deputy Director of the Institute for China-U.S. People to People Exchange at Peking University
  • Bates Gill, Professor of Asia Pacific Strategic Studies with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University

Panel 2: East Asia’s Economic and Security Order: where to from here?

  • Chair: Pip McLachlan, Director Engagement and Research, Asia New Zealand Foundation
  • Toshihiro Nakayama, Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
  • Shao Yuqun, Executive Director, Center for American Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
  • Ian Storey, Senior Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Panel 3: Southern Exposure? Implications for New Zealand and Australia

  • Chair: David Capie, Director, Centre for Strategic Studies
  • Brendan Taylor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
  • Natasha Hamilton-Hart, New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland
  • Robert Ayson, Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

Concluding remarks

Registration

Register online here or at Eventbrite.

Full registration: $65; Students and unwaged: $40. Registration includes refreshments and lunch

Programme