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Sarwar Kashmeri’s highly acclaimed new book, published in 2019. Purchase from your local bookstore or Amazon.com
Draws from personal research and interviews with prominent Asian and American scholars, businessmen, military officials, and political experts
The Business of America and China Is Business
Sarwar Kashmeri
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For “The Telegram,” a Foreign Policy Association Report, “Sarwar Kashmeri interviewed experts from around the world to present a compelling brief for recalibrating U.S.- China relations. His narrative draws upon expert views from across the political spectrum and from around the world. It could not be more timely ” -- Noel Lateef, President and CEO, FPA.
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“The old order changeth yielding place to new...Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.“
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September 12th 9:30 AM EDT – Shan Weijian – The Business of America and China is Business
Is the current torrent of negative public opinions and sentiments against China shaped by reasoning, facts, or logic, or by simple repeated assertations (existential threat, technology theft, genocide, forced labor, oppression, aggression … ) by politicians and the media resulting in repeated affirmation and dissemination to a receptive audience? In this toxic environment opinion polls are like checking if the temperature of a pot is rising. The rising spiral of toxicity now endangers the most consequential relationship –that between the United States and China–the two largest economies in the world.
Is the current torrent of negative public opinions and sentiments against China shaped by reasoning, facts, or logic, or by simple repeated assertations? Deng Xiaoping embarked the nation on a market-oriented reform 45 years ago. Since then, China’s economy has experienced non-stop growth. Just in this century, its GDP has grown by about 15 times. It’s now the largest economy in the world by purchasing power and the second largest in dollar terms. It is also the largest trading nation in the world, being the largest trading partner with more than 140 countries, out of a total of about 190. Whereas every market economy goes through economic cycles, China has miraculously been spared of a recession in 45 years. Its economy has noticeably slowed and the market sentiment has sapped. Is it heading into one now?
Shan Weijian is an economist, businessman, and author based in Hong Kong. Shan is the Executive Chairman of PAG, a leading alternative investment firm focused on the Asia Pacific region with more than USD 50 billion under management. Shan currently serves as a Trustee of The British Museum and as an independent director of Alibaba Group.
September 19th 09:30 AM EDT – Maria Repnikova – U.S. Influence in the Global South-Going, Going, Gone?
Professor Maria Repnikova, Georgia State University is a scholar of China’s political communication. A fluent Mandarin, Russian and Spanish speaker, she is also a non-residential Wilson China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. She received her doctorate (DPhil) in Politics at the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is an expert in media-state relations in China, including political persuasion and critical journalism; Chinese soft power and public diplomacy, especially in the African context; China-Russia comparisons.
September 26th 09:30 AM EDT – Noel Lateef – Foreign Policy Association and a World Order in Transformation
Noel V. Lateef is the longest serving President of the Foreign Policy Association, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2018. Prior to joining the Foreign Policy Association in 1995, Mr. Lateef was Chairman of the Bowery Savings Bank. He was previously affiliated with Sullivan & Cromwell and the U.S. State Department. A distinguished graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, he has authored numerous publications, including The Future of Higher Education in the Age of Globalization and In Pursuit of Peace: Conflict Prevention and World Order.
October 3rd 9:30 AM EDT – Luv Puri – India and U.S. Confront the New World Order
Luv Puri is a Fulbright scholar at New York University. He was a correspondent with the The Hindu for several years and has contributed to various media publications and academic journals. In 2006 he was one of the prizewinners of the European Commission Award for Human Rights and Democracy. His special fields of interest include the situation of South Asian Muslims, the Kashmir conflict and Pakistan.
October 17th 9:30 AM EDT – Thomas Sherlock – Russia Through the eyes of President Putin
Thomas Sherlock is professor emeritus of political science at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. His writing does not represent the views of the U.S. government, the Department of the Army, or the U.S. Military Academy. Thom’s opinion pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times (international edition), the Washington Post and other news outlets. He has served as a consultant or project manager for the Carnegie Council, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Open Society Foundations (Ukraine), and EUROCLIO in The Netherlands, among other institutions. He frequently conducts field research in post-Soviet space, including the supervision of large-N national surveys and focus groups in Russia.
October 31st 9:30 AM EDT – Nicholas Michelon – European Union-China-U.S. – the Golden Triangle?
American writer Mark Twain famously said,” Reports about my death are greatly exaggerated!” A phrase that could well be applied to the almost continuous barrage of articles in the Western press about China’s collapsing economy, according to Nicholas Michelon. A contrarian opinion from a noted observer of the Ecole de Guerre Economique. “Ask Chinese citizens whether they are satisfied with their country’s economy and you get a very different response from what one would get if one were to ask an American or European about their own country’s economy, he says.
Nicolas is a Partner at Confluence Consultants, a geopolitical risk & business intelligence consultancy in Dubai, and the Founder & Editor of asiapowerwatch.com. Corporate advisor on how to navigate the current geopolitical and geo-economic environment, mitigate risk and develop prospective scenarios. He is Adjunct Professor of geopolitics, geoeconomics of the Indo-Pacific and business intelligence at ESCP Business School, EM Lyon, Ecole de Guerre Economique (Paris School of Economic Warfare) and the International University of Monaco.
Sarwar Kashmeri in the News
10 Years of the Belt & Road Initiative on CGTN with Sarwar Kashmeri
The CGTN interview with Sarwar Kashmeri on the infrastructure project to connect the world through land and sea, known as the Belt and Road Initiative.
U.S.- China Relations A Foreign Policy Association Broadcast
The event is the Dame Jillian Sackler Distinguished Lecture on U.S.-China Relations.
An in-depth interview with Sarwar Kashmeri
China Strengthens Ties in Mideast and Africa As US Influence Declines
“The last three decades of United States involvement in the world has been provocatively militaristic in nature,” Kashmeri says, noting that this approach has alienated many and deterred the spirit of international collaboration.” – Sarwar Kashmeri
China's Grand Strategy Washington D.C. Book Launch with Hon. Chuck Hagel
The Honorable Chuck Hagel, 24th U.S. Secretary of Defense (2013-2015), and Professor Sarwar Kashmeri, Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association, discuss “China’s Grand Strategy.”
China's Grand Strategy New York Book Launch with Professor Pamela Crossley
The New York book launch of “China’s Grand Strategy” with Professor Pamela Crossley, Wollis professor of history and professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. the Foreign Policy Association, moderated by Professor Sarwar Kashmeri, Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association.
China’s Grand Strategy and the BRI
U.S. Army War College Podcast • March 3, 2020
There has never been anything like it in recorded history where a country has put…a trillion dollars aside to help in jump starting all of these infrastructure projects around the country..
China’s Grand Strategy, comprendre la BRI par le professeur Kashmeri
A review of Sarwar Kashmeri’s book, “China’s Grand Strategy” featured in the French news site at OBOR.
Un nouveau livre sur les nouvelles routes de la Soie vient d’être publié par le professeur Sarwar Sarwar Kashmeri, chercheur au thinktank « Foreign Policy Association » et professeur adjoint en sciences politiques à Norwich University. Cet ouvrage se distingue par la très bonne compréhension de la stratégie chinoise…
Deutsche-Welle features Sarwar in their China anniversary news program
Deutsche-Welle interview with Professor Sarwar Kashmeri on Chinese strategy in the 21st century.
Sarwar's Chronicles
In 2002, Sarwar Kashmeri changed tack from founder/CEO of his international accounting systems company to a career in analyzing, writing, and speaking about U.S. foreign policy and national security. Over that time his interests have covered U.S.-EU relations, NATO, and lately U.S.- China relations. This is a collection of some of his opinion columns and book reviews since 2002.
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