Clash of Titans: US-China Relations
A Conversation with Stephen Roach and more special guests to be announced soon!
Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 27th, 5:30 - 7:00 pm ET
In-person, upper east side, Limited capacity!
Dinner to follow (ONLY Executive members and above)
Warning signs have developed for China’s economy. What is happening with our most important and most complicated relationship in world affairs?
Join The Common Good for an important and timely update with esteemed economist Stephen Roach, former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, now at Yale, and moderated by Ambassador Robert Hormats, advisor to five presidents, and former senior State Department official, Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates and Goldman Sachs, with extensive ties to China.
They will brief us on current and evolving issues affecting China’s economy and ramifications for the world and US economic ties, security dynamics and geopolitical competition.
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About Our Speakers
Stephen Roach has been a member of the Yale faculty since 2010. He was the first senior fellow to join the faculty of Yale University’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at its inception in 2010 and remained in that capacity until 2022; over that period, he was also a Senior Lecturer at Yale’s School of Management. He joined Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center in 2022. He was formerly Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s Chief Economist for the bulk of his 30-year career at Morgan Stanley.
A rare combination of thought leadership on Wall Street and academia places Stephen Roach in the unique position as a leading practitioner of analytical macroeconomics. At Yale, he introduced new courses for undergraduates and graduate students on the “The Next China” and “The Lessons of Japan.” Dr. Roach’s current research program focuses on the impacts of the conflict-prone US-China relationship on the broader global economy. His latest book, Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives (Yale University Press, 2022) examines the ominous trajectory of conflict escalation between the United States and China and a provides a unique roadmap for conflict resolution. His 2014 book, Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China explored the risks and opportunities of the world’s most important economic relationship of the 21st century.
Robert Hormats has been a senior official in the administrations of five different American presidents, a top executive on Wall Street and major business leader working with companies in the United States and throughout the world. His most recent government job was Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment. He is currently Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Mr. Hormats began his career as Senior Staff Member on the National Security Council Staff in 1969. During his tenure, he served as senior advisor to Dr. Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft, and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski. In this capacity, he was responsible for international economic policy, global energy issues, foreign trade and investment matters and monetary/financial issues. He played a major role in the opening up of U.S. relations with China as Senior White House Economic Advisor to Dr. Kissinger during the early 1970s, the American response to the global energy crisis of the 1970s, international trade negotiations and resolving a number of financial crises involving Asia, Russia, Latin America and the U.S.
Related Readings:
“How Scary is China’s Crisis?” (Paul Krugman, The New York Times)
“Whither China? Part III: Policy hubris and the end of infallibility” (Adam Tooze, Chartbook)
“A deep crisis in China would pose a choice for two leading powers” (Henry M. Paulson Jr., The Washington Post)
