U. S. China relations. Speakers include former a formeran and secretary of state. Chinas ambitions and the u. S. Policy in the asiapacific region. From the council on Foreign Relations, this is one hour. I know we have a lot of ground to cover, a of questions a lot of people want to ask. Some of you have contacted me before to log your request. Good afternoon and welcome to this council on Foreign Relations meeting on u. S. China relations. Im from the brookings institution. Im thrilled to be joined by three of my favorite scholar practitioners. First, i want to commend them for agreeing to weigh in on one of the most complex and pressing questions, foreignpolicy questions before us, and that is the question of whether beijing and washington can a vvert the pressure towards confrontation. The patterns of history that drive a willing power and rising power into confrontation. That we harder question will deal with is what can we do about it . A couple of housekeeping notes. Please compl
Relations, this is just over one hour. I know we have a lot of ground to cover, a of questions a lot of people want to ask. Some of you have contacted me before to log your request. Good afternoon and welcome to this council on Foreign Relations meeting on u. S. China relations. Im from the new yorker magazine and from the brookings institution. Im thrilled to be joined by three of my favorite scholar practitioners. First, i want to commend them for agreeing to weigh in on one of the most complex and pressing questions, foreignpolicy questions before us, and that is the question of whether beijing and washington can avert the pressure towards confrontation. E pressure towards confrontation. The patterns of history that drive a willing power and rising power into confrontation. That we harder question will deal with is what can we do about it . A couple of housekeeping notes. Please completely turn off your electronic devices. Do not just put it on vibrate. If you have a reason to use y
I think we will go in and get started. I know we got a lot of ground to cover, a lot of questions that people will want to ask. Some of you have contacted me before hand to launch your request. It afternoon everybody and welcome to this council on Foreign Relations meeting on the u. S. China relations. Im evan osnos from the new yorker and the Brookings Institution or im thrilled to be joined by three of my favorite scholar practitioners and theyll introduce them in a second buffer zone what you commended them for agreeing to wait into one of the most complex and pressing questions, foreignpolicy questions before us, and that of course is a question of whether beijing and washington can avert the pressure towards confrontation, the pressure of history, the patterns of history that drive a ruling power and a rising power into confrontation. And then even the harder question which will also do with, and that is what do we do about it . A couple of housekeeping notes at the very beginning
Good afternoon everybody and welcome. This is on the subject of u. S. China relations. Is sponsored by the brookings institution. I would like to commend the panelists for agreeing to mostss some of the pressing questions before us, and that is whether beijing and theington can avert pressure toward confrontation. The pressure of history. A ruling power in day rising power in conversation confrontation. The larger question is, what do we do about it . Requests. Ousekeeping please turn off your phones, do not turn it to vibrate because it could interrupt the sound system. Themeeting today is on record, we will talk for about 30 minutes happy or and then up here and then turn it over to questions. On the right, one of the great china specialists. Cofounder and researcher. She keeps her eye on the macroeconomics of a range of subjects. Then, the Maurice Greenberg senior fellow. National security adviser to Vice President biden with special focus on china policy. And, our distinguished vis
First Abigail Doolittle tells us everything going on in the markets. Small small gains for the nasdaq but nonetheless looking at it caused with the reflation trade, the dow and s p 500 trading lower, the doubt on pace for its worst day in the month of february. Thething else about today, first day in seven trading sessions that we do not have some sort of record high for these three major averages. A bit of a pause in the reflation trade. We have stocks close to the record highs and still do not have a 1 move for the s p 500. ,hen we go into the bloomberg the top orange line is a 1 move up in the bottom line is it one person move down. We are now on day 49 without a move up or down. Day 89 without a move to the downside, the last time that happened was in 2016. Stocks trading to alltime highs on the reflation trade, the risk rally, we do not have any really big conviction behind it or big moves. The last view times the other ranges broke it was on massive volatility so when this tradin