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AGENDA
9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.
Welcome Remarks – Margaret Conley, Executive Director, Asia Society Northern California
Opening Remarks – Lt. Governor of California Eleni Kounalakis
9:10 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Session 1 –
The Global Chessboard:
After a year of recriminations and downward spiral in the relationship, what should be the strategic framework to get the relationship back on track? China is pursuing new international alliances (B&R, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia) even as the U.S. engages western nations to challenge China’s ambitions. What type of framework would enable these two powers to co-exist and continue collaboration, maintain competition, and prevent conflict?
Xinhua on Sunday, Jan. 10.
Xinhua accused Pompeo of seeking to maliciously inflict a long-standing scar on China-U.S. ties , instead of facilitating an orderly transition with the next U.S. administration.
CGTN, the English-language arm of state-owned broadcaster CCTV, wrote that the Trump administration has crossed a dangerous red line with China days before U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20.
It also called the move a cowardly act of sabotage for the incoming Biden administration.
Taiwan is a sensitive issue for Beijing, which considers the self-ruled island as one of its core interests that are non-negotiable.
Pompeo lifted self-imposed restrictions on contact with Taiwanese officials
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The ongoing India-China face-off in Eastern Ladakh may appear to be a small-scale confrontation between conventional forces. But it is still one between nuclear-armed states, and the threat of escalation cannot be denied. In its wake, India has carried out a series of missile tests, while China too has fired a number of ballistic missiles near the Paracel and Spratly Islands, apparently to warn the US, but hardly something New Delhi can ignore. This analysis makes three key points: the threat from China is likely to persist; India needs to adapt balancing responses to the threat to the requirements of a nuclear weapons environment; and Indian policymakers should be mindful of the possibilities of actual military combat, be it a marginal war, or a trans-domain conflict that involves use of advanced technologies influencing both the nuclear and conventional spheres.