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Series presented in conjunction with the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.

Public discourse on U.S.-China relations often focuses on problems in the relationship and their roots. There are no shortages of problems to examine in this regard. What often is lacking, though, is a theory for how these two major powers could coexist amidst intensifying rivalry.

In this final lecture, “China and the United States: Can Competitive Coexistence be Maintained?” Brookings scholar Ryan Hass will make a case for why both countries require non-hostile relations to reach their national ambitions. Thus, not out of amity, but rather clear-eyed self-interest, both countries will be pushed to find ways to avert direct conflict. If they fail, people in both countries and around the world will suffer.     

In this lecture, Hass will examine the core elements of U.S.-China competition. He will offer prescriptions for how both countries could halt the slide in relations in the near-term, and over the longer-term, how both could pursue their interests in ways that do not exacerbate tensions.

Ryan Hass is a senior fellow and the Michael H. Armacost Chair in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is also the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies. He is a nonresident affiliated fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Hass focuses his research and analysis on enhancing policy development on the pressing political, economic, and security challenges facing the United States in East Asia.

From 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC) staff. In that role, he advised President Obama and senior White House officials on all aspects of U.S. policy toward China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and coordinated the?implementation of U.S. policy toward this region?among U.S. government departments and agencies. He joined President Obama’s state visit delegations in Beijing and Washington respectively in 2014 and 2015, and the president’s delegation to Hangzhou, China, for the G-20 in 2016, and to Lima, Peru, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meetings in 2016.

Prior to joining NSC, Hass served as a Foreign Service Officer?in U.S. Embassy Beijing, where he earned the State Department Director General’s award for impact and originality in reporting, an award given annually to the officer whose reporting had the greatest impact on the formulation of U.S. foreign policy. Hass also served in Embassy Seoul and Embassy Ulaanbaatar, and domestically in the State Department Offices of Taiwan Coordination and Korean Affairs.?Hass received multiple Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor commendations during his 15-year tenure in the Foreign Service.

Hass is the author of Stronger: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence (Yale University Press, 2021), a coeditor of Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World (Brookings Press, 2021), and of the monograph, “The future of US policy toward China: Recommendations for the Biden administration” (Brookings, 2020). He also leads the Democracy in Asia project at the Brookings Institution.

Hass was born and raised in Washington state.?He graduated from the University of Washington and attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies prior to joining the State Department.

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