Chinese Foreign Policy: Implications for Asia’s Regional Order
Hosted by Centre for Strategic Studies and New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre
Date: 6 December 2017
In his report to the 19th Party Congress President Xi Jinping referred to China’s future as a ‘strong country’ and described a coming era that will see China move closer to the centre of the global stage. What will a more assertive and more influential China mean for regional peace and prosperity? In this talk Bonnie Glaser will discuss recent developments in Chinese foreign policy and what they might mean for Asia’s regional order.
Recording - Chinese Foreign Policy: Implications for Asia's Regional Order
About the speaker
Bonnie S. Glaser is a senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she works on issues related to Asia-Pacific security with a focus on Chinese foreign and security policy. She is concomitantly a non-resident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the CSIS Pacific Forum. Ms. Glaser has worked for more than three decades at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. From 2008 to mid-2015, she was a senior adviser with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, and from 2003 to 2008, she was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State. Ms. Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals, including the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, International Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia, American Foreign Policy Interests, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, as well as in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and International Herald Tribune and in various edited volumes on Asian security. She is also a regular contributor to the Pacific Forum web journal Comparative Connections. She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She served as a member of the Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board China Panel in 1997. Ms. Glaser received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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