Course Correction: Toward an Effective and Sustainable China Policy

Task Force on U.S.-China Policy

Two years into the Trump administration, the United States and the People ’ s Republic of China find their bilateral relationship at a dangerous crossroads. As more stresses and strains beset their relationship, both sides are casting about for redefinitions of their national interest and new policy directions for attaining them .
On February 12, 2019, the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy issued its new report Course Correction: Toward an Effective and Sustainable China Policy. This report marks the second rig of findings issued by a group comprised of China specialists from around the United States convened by Asia Society ’ s Center on U.S.-China Relations and the University of California San Diego ’ s twenty-first Century China Center .
This year ’ s Task Force memo builds on its 2017 report to identify the fundamental interests of the United States in its relationship with China. These include a fair market-based global economic system, a passive and static Asia-Pacific region, a liberal rules-based political and economic order, and a stable and productive kinship with China. This memo focuses on five different issue areas :

• economics and trade
• regional security
• global governance
• human rights
• China’s influence-seeking and interference abroad

To further these interests the Task Force proposes a scheme of “ fresh contest. ” “ Smart competition ” involves construction on american strengths to compete efficaciously with China while maintaining as much cooperation as possible in areas of common interest ; building international coalitions to press China to follow external laws and norms ; negotiating resolutions of key disputes wherever feasible ; and continue and updating those international institutions that have enhanced the social welfare and security of both countries and the rest of the universe for thus many decades .

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Co-organized by : Asia Society Southern California, Sunnylands, Pacific Council, & twenty-first Century China Center at UCSD

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Task Force Biographies

Task Force participants endorse the overall findings of the reputation, with individual dissents included at the end of the report. They participated in their individual, not institutional, capacities .

Chairs

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society. He is a former professor and dean at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Schell is the author of fifteen books, ten of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edit volumes a well as magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books. His most holocene book is Wealth and Power : China ’ mho Long March to the twenty-first Century, with John Delury ( 2013 ). Schell worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a diarist, and has traveled widely in China since the mid-70s. Schell is the recipient of many prizes and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in asian journalism .
Susan L. Shirk is chair of the twenty-first Century China Center and research professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. She previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state from 1997 to 2000, where she was creditworthy for U.S. policy toward China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mongolia. Shirk founded and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, an unofficial forum for discussions of security issues. Her book, China : flimsy Superpower ( 2008 ), helped frame the debate on China policy in the United States and other countries. Her most holocene book, Changing Media, Changing China, was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press .

Participants

Charlene Barshefsky is a senior international collaborator at WilmerHale. She joined the firm after serving as the U.S. Trade Representative from 1997 to 2001, and acting as deputy USTR from 1993 to 1996. As the USTR and a member of the president of the united states ’ sulfur cabinet, she was responsible for the negotiation of hundreds of complex marketplace access, regulative, and investment agreements with about every major area in the world. Barshefsky is best known internationally as the architect and foreman negotiator of China ’ s historic WTO agreement, equally well as global agreements in fiscal services, telecommunications, intellectual place rights, high-technology products, and internet. Her legal career in the field has encompassed external litigation, commercial negotiations, investment and regulative advice, and dispute resolution, and she has written and lectured extensively both in the United States and abroad .
Kurt M. Campbell is president and headman executive officeholder of The Asia Group, LLC, a strategic advisory and capital management group specializing in the Asia-Pacific region. He besides serves as president of the board of the Center for a New American Security, as a non-resident fellow at Harvard University ’ mho Belfer Center, and as frailty president of the East-West Center in Hawaii. He was besides appointed as the Henry A. Kissinger Fellow at the McCain Institute for 2018. From 2009 to 2013, Campbell served as the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he is wide credited as being a key architect of the “ pivot to Asia. ” For advancing a comprehensive examination U.S. scheme, Secretary Hillary Clinton awarded him the Secretary of State ’ south Distinguished Service Award ( 2013 ). He is the writer or editor of ten books, most recently The pivot : The future of american english Statecraft in Asia ( 2016 ). Campbell received his doctor’s degree in international relations from Brasenose College at Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar .

Thomas J. Christensen is professor of populace and external affairs and conductor of the China and the World Program at Columbia University. He arrived in 2018 from Princeton University, where he was William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War, film director of the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, and faculty film director of the Masters of Public Policy Program and the Truman Scholars Program. From 2006 to 2008 Christensen served as deputy assistant secretary of submit for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for relations with China, Taiwan, and Mongolia. His research and teaching focus on China ’ s foreign relations, the international relations of East Asia, and international security. His most recent book, The China Challenge : Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power ( 2015 ), was an editors ’ choice at the New York Times Book Review, a “ Book of the Week ” on CNN ’ s Fareed Zakaria GPS, and the Arthur Ross Book Award Silver Medalist for 2016 at the Council on Foreign Relations. Christensen has besides taught at Cornell University and MIT. He received his M.A. in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. in political skill from Columbia University .

Elizabeth C. Economy is the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and film director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a distinguished chew the fat companion at Stanford University ’ s Hoover Institution. She has published widely on both Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Her most recent bible, The third Revolution : eleven Jinping and the New Chinese State ( 2018 ), analyzes the at odds nature of reform under President Xi Jinping. She is the generator ( with Michael Levi ) of By All Means Necessary : How China ’ s Resource Quest is Changing the World ( 2013 ) and The River Runs Black : The Environmental Challenge to China ’ s Future ( 2004 ). Economy received her M.A. from Stanford University and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan .

Karl Eikenberry is the former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Lieutenant General, U.S. Army ( retired ). He is a faculty member of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University and is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self Determination at Princeton University. previously, he was the Director of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University. Prior to his arrival at Stanford, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 until 2011. Before appointee as Chief of Mission in Kabul, Ambassador Eikenberry had a thirty-five year career in the United States Army, retiring in April 2009 with the rank of lieutenant general. His military operational posts included commanding officer and staff officeholder with mechanize, light, airborne, and ranger infantry units in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Korea, Italy, and Afghanistan as the Commander of the American-led Coalition forces. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, has earned passkey ’ south degrees from Harvard University in East asian Studies and Stanford University in Political Science, and was a National Security Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard .

M. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studies international relations, with a concentrate on external security, China, and East Asia. Fravel ’ s first book, strong Borders, impregnable nation : cooperation and Conflict in China ’ s Territorial Disputes, was published by Princeton University Press in 2008. He is presently completing Active department of defense : China ’ s Military Strategy since 1949 ( forthcoming in 2019 ). He serves on the column boards of the International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, and The China Quarterly, and is a member of the board of directors for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He is besides the principal detective of the Maritime Awareness Project. Fravel is a alumnus of Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D .

Paul Gewirtz is the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School and the Director of Yale ’ sulfur Paul Tsai China Center. He teaches and writes in assorted legal and policy fields, including built-in law, U.S. alien policy and law, U.S.-China relations, chinese police, law and literature, antidiscrimination law, and relative law. Yale ’ s Paul Tsai China Center, which Professor Gewirtz founded in 1999 as The China Law Center, focuses on issues of chinese law and U.S.-China relations. From 1997 to 1998, on leave from Yale, he served in the Clinton Administration as Special Representative for the Presidential Rule of Law Initiative, where he developed and led the U.S.-China inaugural to cooperate in the legal sphere that President Clinton and China ’ s President Jiang Zemin launched at their 1997 Summit meeting. Before joining the Yale faculty, Gewirtz served as a law salesclerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He received his B.A. degree summa semen laude from Columbia University and his law degree from Yale .
Melanie Hart is a senior colleague and director of China policy at Center for American Progress. She focuses on U.S. extraneous policy toward China and works to identify new opportunities for bilateral cooperation, particularly on energy, climate change, and cross-border investment. Her research besides covers China ’ s political system, market regulative reforms, and how China ’ s domestic and extraneous policy developments affect the United States. Before joining CAP, she worked as a stick out adviser for the Aspen Institute International Digital Economy Accords undertaking. She besides worked on Qualcomm ’ second China business exploitation team, where she provided technology market and regulative analysis to guide Qualcomm operations in Greater China. Hart has a Ph.D. in political skill from the University of California, San Diego .

Arthur R. Kroeber is head of inquiry at Gavekal, a financial-services firm based in Hong Kong ; founder of the China-focused Gavekal Dragonomics research service ; and editor of China Economic Quarterly. Before founding Dragonomics in 2002, he spent fifteen years as a fiscal and economic diarist in China and South Asia. He is a elder non-resident chap of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center, an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. His record, China ’ mho Economy : What Everyone Needs to Know, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016 .

Winston Lord was U.S. ambassador to China from 1985 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan, and served as assistant secretary of state of matter for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1993 to 1997 under President Bill Clinton. In the 1970s, he was special adjunct to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and then conductor of the State Department policy plan staff. During this period, he was on every China tripper and attended every meet that Presidents Nixon and Ford and Dr. Kissinger had with Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping, and was one of two american drafters of the Shanghai Communiqué. In the 1960s, Lord served in the Pentagon and the Foreign Service. Outside of government, his serve has included president of the Council on Foreign Relations, co-chairman of the International Rescue Committee, and president of the National Endowment for Democracy. He has besides been a dining table member or adviser to many NGOs, including the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, the Trilateral Commission, and the Women ’ s Tennis Association. Among the honors that Ambassador Lord has received are the State Department ’ second Distinguished Honor Award, the Defense Department ’ s Outstanding Performance Award, and respective honorary degrees .
Evan S. Medeiros is the Penner Family Chair in Asia Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His research and teach focuses on the international politics of East Asia, U.S.-China relations, and China ’ s alien and home security system policies. He previously served for six years on the staff of the National Security Council as director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia, and then as special assistant to the president and elder director for Asia. In late years, Medeiros advised multinational companies on Asia in his role as managing director for Asia-Pacific at Eurasia Group. Prior to joining the White House, Medeiros worked for seven years as a elder political scientist at the RAND Corporation. From 2007 to 2008, he besides served as policy adviser to Secretary Hank Paulson working on the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue at the Treasury Department. Medeiros holds a Ph.D. in external relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, in addition to an MPhil degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge, and an M.A. in China studies from the University of London ’ sulfur School of Oriental and African Studies .
Andrew J. Nathan is the class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He studies the politics and extraneous policy of China, political participation and political culture in Asia, and the external human rights regimen. Nathan ’ s books include taiwanese Democracy ( 1985 ), The Tiananmen Papers ( 2001 ), China ’ s Search for Security ( 2012 ), and Will China Democratize ? ( 2013 ). He has served at Columbia as conductor of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and as president of the political science department. He is the regular Asia book reviewer for Foreign Affairs and a extremity of the editorial boards of the Journal of Contemporary China, China Information, and others. Nathan received his M.A. in East asian regional studies and Ph.D. in political skill, both from Harvard University .

Barry Naughton is the Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at University of California, San Diego. He is an authority on the taiwanese economy, with an stress on issues relating to industry, craft, finance, and China ’ randomness conversion to a market economy. He has addressed economic reform in chinese cities, trade wind and trade disputes between China and the United States, and economic interactions among China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. His books include The chinese economy : Transitions and Growth ( 2006 ) and Growing Out of the plan : chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993 ( 1995 ), which received the Ohira Memorial Prize. Naughton received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University .

Daniel H. Rosen is a establish spouse of Rhodium Group and leads the firm ’ s work on China, India, and Asia. Rosen has twenty-six years of professional experience analyzing China ’ mho economy, commercial sector, and external interactions. He is widely recognized for his contributions on the U.S.-China economic relationship. He is affiliated with a phone number of american intend tanks focused on international economics, and is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University. From 2000 to 2001, Rosen was elder adviser for international economic policy at the White House National Economic Council and National Security Council. Rosen graduated with distinction from the Graduate School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University ( M.S.F.S. ) and with honors in asian studies and economics from the University of Texas, Austin ( B.A. ) .

David Shambaugh is the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science and International Affairs and director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He has been a penis of the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and is a extremity of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute of Strategic Studies, U.S. Asia Pacific Council, and a phone number of column boards and academic review bodies. Shambaugh has published more than thirty books and numerous articles and chapters. His most late books are The China Reader : Rising Power ( 2016 ), China Goes Global : The partial Power ( 2013 ), and China ’ second Future ( 2016 ) ; the latter two were both selected by The Economist as “ Best Books of the Year. ” He is presently working on his next book, Where Great Powers Meet : America & China in Southeast Asia ( Oxford University Press, 2019 ). He received his ph in political skill from the University of Michigan .
The Task Force on U.S.-China Policy is a project of Asia Society ’ s Center on U.S.-China Relations and the University of California San Diego ’ s twenty-first Century China Center in partnership with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands .

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This project was made potential by a allow from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, with extra defend from The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, Henry Luce Foundation, and The Janet and Arthur Ross Foundation .
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