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Polaris Live: A China Agenda for Biden - April 2021 Schedule
With a new American President and Administration there is an opportunity to recalibrate or fine-tune US strategy for China to reflect today’s reality.
Over the course of February, March, and April 2021 leading experts from Asia, the EU, and the U.S. will converse with Polaris-Live host Sarwar Kashmeri, under the auspices of the Foreign Policy Association, about their thoughts re what should be key agenda items that they would propose to President Biden’s team. This schedule presents the dates/times/links to join the 40 minutes live programs through the end of March 2021. Each episode will be archived on the Polaris-Live channel and may also be accessed by the same links shown below. The FPA will publish a report mid-year 2021 to summarize the conversations and distribute it in printed and PDF formats.
Please join us for these special interviews every Tuesday on Polaris-Live with your host, Sarwar Kashmeri
6 April 2021 09:30 ET
Li Xing, Professor Department of Politics and Society, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanity, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests and teaching areas include international political economy, international relations, emerging powers and world order. In recent years, apart from publishing numerous international and Chinese journal articles, he has edited a number of book series on the theme of the rise of China/emerging powers and the existing world order.
13 April 2021 07:30 ET
Yan Xuetong, President Management Board--Carnegie-Tsinghua Center Global Policy. He is one of China’s leading experts on China’s foreign policy, national security, and U.S.-China relations. At Tsinghua University, he is dean of the Institute of Modern International Relations.
20 April 2021 09:30 ET
Lynette H. Ong is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, jointly appointed at the Asian Institute and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Her research interests are authoritarian politics, contentious politics and the political economy of development. She is an expert of China and Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore and Malaysia.
27 April 2021 10:00 ET
Paul Haenle holds the Maurice R. Greenberg Director’s Chair at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center based at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Haenle served as the director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia Affairs on the National Security Council staffs of former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama prior to joining Carnegie.