Abstract

The US presidential election is drawing to a close. It is as heated and unpredictable as the one four years ago. Who is likely to get elected: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump? Does the outcome of the election matter for China-US relations? If so, in what ways? How is China likely to respond to the possible challenges? What does all this mean for China and for Southeast Asian countries? This lecture is designed to address these questions.

About the Speaker

Jia Qingguo is professor and former Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University. He is also Director of the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding and Director of Global Governance at Peking University.

He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. He has taught in University of Vermont, Cornell University, University of California at San Diego, University of Sydney in Australia as well as Peking University. He was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution between 1985 and 1986, a visiting professor at the University of Vienna in 1997, a CNAPS fellow at the Brookings Institution between 2001 and 2002, and the Payne Distinguished Fellow for the 2022 fall quarter at Stanford.

He is a member of the Standing Committee of the 14^th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (the CPPCC). He also served as a Standing Committee member of the 11^th, 12^th and 13^th National Committee of the CPPCC. He is Vice President of the Chinese American Studies Association, Vice President of China International Relations Studies Association, and Vice President of Chinese Japanese Studies Association. He is serving on the editorial board of more than a dozen established domestic and international academic journals on international issues.

He has published extensively on U.S.- China relations, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, Chinese foreign policy and Chinese politics.