The United States, China, and the Future of the Global Order
VIEW EVENT DETAILSJoin us for a lively discussion with Kishore Mahbubani, the 2023-24 Schlager Visiting Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House; and Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, on the future of China and United States in the global order.
Moderated by Asia Society Policy Institute’s Managing Director, Rorry Daniels, this event will investigate how the two major powers — with opposing political systems and many common interests — will shape and accelerate global trends. Is the U.S.-China relationship irrevocably locked in conflict? How is the rest of the world likely to respond and reorder to more intense competition? And what do shifts in the relative balance of power portend for security, sustainability, and stability?
In partnership with Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania, the Asia Society is proud to present this opportunity to see two of the world’s preeminent thinkers on U.S.-China relations take on this immensely challenging — and thought-provoking — set of questions.
Speakers
Kishore Mahbubani, the 2023-24 Schlager Visiting Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House, is a distinguished fellow at the Asia Research Institute, part of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is a former president of the United Nations Security Council and the founding dean of NUS’ Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Mahbubani writes and gives talks on the rise of Asia, geopolitics, and global governance. He has released nine books, including Has China Won? and The Asian 21st Century, an open-access book which has been downloaded over three million times. He has published articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs. Mahbubani has been listed among the world’s top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy and Prospect and among the top fifty individuals who will shape the debate on the future of capitalism by the Financial Times. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October 2019. Mahbubani received a degree in philosophy from the National University of Singapore and a master’s degree from Dalhousie University, which later awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Orville Schell is Vice President and Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, and a former dean of 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 edited volumes, including The New Yorker, the Atlantic, The New York Times, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books. His most recent book My Old Home: A Novel of Exile, was published in 2021. Schell worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist, and has traveled widely in China since the mid-’70s.
Marie Harf (closing remarks) comes to Penn from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she served as the executive director of external relations and marketing. Previously she worked as a senior advisor and deputy spokesperson for Secretary John Kerry at the U.S. Department of State, as the foreign policy director on Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, as the executive director of political organization Serve America, and as a Middle East analyst and spokesperson at the Central Intelligence Agency. Since 2017, Harf has been an on-air commentator for Fox News. She holds a BA degree in political science from Indiana University with concentrations in Jewish Studies and Russian and Eastern European Studies, and a master's degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.
Rorry Daniels (moderator) is the Managing Director of Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), where she leads and oversees strategy and operations for ASPI's projects on security, climate change and trade throughout Asia. She is also a Senior Fellow with ASPI's Center for China Analysis. She was previously with the National Committee on American Foreign Policy where she managed the organization's Track II and research portfolio on Asia security issues, with a particular focus on cross-Taiwan Strait relations, U.S.-China relations, and the North Korean nuclear program. Her most recent research project audited the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue to evaluate its process and outcomes.
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